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Ray Hamel

The RNC’s Co-Chair Has Put Her Music Career on Hold to Serve Donald Trump (Her Father-in-Law)

Tweet Share Share Comment This is Totally Normal Quote of the Day , a feature highlighting a statement from the news that exemplifies just how...

yesterday 4

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Uwa Ede-Osifo

A Supreme Court Case About the Rights of Homeless People Went Better Than Expected

Tweet Share Share Comment No one expects the federal judiciary to solve the nation’s worsening homelessness crisis: For better or worse, the U.S....

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Mark Joseph Stern

Keeping Up With the Trump Trials: Bad News for Jack Smith’s Election Interference Case

Tweet Share Share Comment Keeping up with Donald Trump’s court schedule is a dizzying task, since he faces two federal trials, a criminal trial...

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Shirin Ali

The Richest Man in Pennsylvania Is Not Having a Good Month

Tweet Share Share Comment Every so often, a guy comes along who is all of a sudden everywhere—a zeitguy, if you will. In 2024 in American...

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Ben Mathis-Lilley

Mike Johnson Is No Hero

Tweet Share Share Comment Before House Speaker Mike Johnson basks too deeply in the praise he’s received for bringing the security assistance bill...

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Fred Kaplan

Which Element’s Name Comes From the Spanish for “Little Silver”?

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Ray Hamel

Why the EMTALA SCOTUS Case Is One of the Most Infuriating Since Dobbs

Tweet Share Share Comment This week, the Supreme Court will hear a case that could have devastating and widespread consequences for pregnant...

previous day 9

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Lindsay Harrison And Dahlia Lithwick

Trump Figured Out a New Way to Avoid Facing His Many Alleged Crimes

Tweet Share Share Comment On Monday, the jury and reporters heard opening arguments in People of New York v. Donald J. Trump, offering us our best...

previous day 2

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Jeremy Stahl

The Most Revealing New Piece of Evidence Offered Up at Today’s Trump Trial

Tweet Share Share Comment Now that the parties have each given their opening statements in the Stormy Daniels hush money trial, we finally have the...

previous day 2

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Robert Katzberg

The Absurd Case About Whether Doctors Can Let You Bleed Out in the ER Is Reaching SCOTUS

Listen to Amicus: Apple Podcasts Spotify Tweet Share Share Comment This week, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a dispute over whether...

previous day 20

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Dahlia Lithwick

Inside the Columbia University Protests that Led to 100 Arrests

Tweet Share Share Comment In a matter of days, Columbia University’s campus has become a flashpoint for national political unrest—the site of...

sunday 5

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Alexander Sammon

This Texas Immigration Law Is Worse Than You Think

Tweet Share Share Comment When I met Ira in January, her top priority was getting out of Texas before S.B. 4, a new state law that authorizes state...

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Tamara Shamir

Mike Johnson’s Epiphany Would’ve Been a Lot Cooler Months Ago

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, your guide to the top 10 Easter eggs hidden inside the most anticipated release of the year: the...

20.04.2024 2

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Jim Newell

Has Russian Propaganda “Infected” Republicans? The Truth Is More Sinister.

Tweet Share Share Comment Earlier this month, Republican Texas Rep. Michael McCaul, the head of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told Puck News...

20.04.2024 5

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Molly Olmstead

One Week Into His Trial, Donald Trump Is Doing Himself No Favors With Jurors

Tweet Share Share Comment Donald Trump’s first criminal trial sped along faster than expected this past week, with a full slate of 12 jurors and...

20.04.2024 5

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Jeremy Stahl And Mark Joseph Stern

Think You’re Smarter Than Mark Joseph Stern? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz.

19.04.2024 6

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Ray Hamel

A Rare Bit of Calming News About Israel and Iran

Tweet Share Share Comment A rare bit of calming news from the Middle East: It seems that neither Israel nor Iran wants to widen the war. The odds of...

19.04.2024 1

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Fred Kaplan

What the Trump Jurors Think of the Former President

Tweet Share Share Comment Read our ongoing coverage of Donald Trump’s first criminal trial  here . After a lot of back-and-forth and multiple...

19.04.2024 10

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Jeremy Stahl

So Much for That Big Homeland Security Impeachment

Tweet Share Share Comment An impeachment trial is supposed to be a big deal. The trial of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was...

19.04.2024 2

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Ben Jacobs

Trump’s Only Options for His Defense Are Really Quite Bad

Tweet Share Share Comment With the near completion of what may have been the most challenging and significant jury selection in American legal...

19.04.2024 7

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Robert Katzberg

Will the Supreme Court Uphold the 14th Amendment and Block an Oregon Law Criminalizing Homelessness?

Tweet Share Share Comment Nearly 38 million Americans live in poverty. In some areas and among some populations, entrenched economic inequality is...

19.04.2024 7

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David H. Gans

The Trump Trial Is Already Influencing Public Opinion—in Ways That Could Really Matter in November

Tweet Share Share Comment Four days in, and with the jury just selected, those in the commentariat class are already ready to offer their closing...

19.04.2024 2

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Dahlia Lithwick And Anat Shenker-Osorio

Which Element Found in Asparagus Gives It a Pungent Smell?

18.04.2024 7

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Ray Hamel

A Wild Day in the House Could Cost Speaker Mike Johnson His Job

Tweet Share Share Comment During a House vote Thursday, Speaker Mike Johnson found himself surrounded by members of the far-right House Freedom...

18.04.2024 2

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Jim Newell

Thursday Proved the True Difficulty of Picking Jurors to Assess Donald Trump

Tweet Share Share Comment Read our ongoing coverage of Donald Trump’s first criminal trial  here . Today, the People of New York v. Trump resumes...

18.04.2024 2

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Jeremy Stahl

George Santos Owes His Favorite Restaurant $10,000—and Way More Elsewhere. He Told Me It’s Fine!

Tweet Share Share Comment The George Santos–expelled–from–Congress narrative arc went from “This is kind of entertaining” to “Oh, wow,...

18.04.2024 5

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Alex Shultz

Elena Kagan Headed Off Disaster While Delivering a Victory for Civil Rights

Listen to Amicus: Apple Podcasts Spotify Tweet Share Share Comment On Wednesday, the Supreme Court handed down Muldrow v. St. Louis , an important...

18.04.2024 40

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Dahlia Lithwick And Mark Joseph Stern

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