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A Weird Confirmation Hearing Even for RFK Jr.

30.01.2025 10

Daily Intelligencer

Ben Jacobs

The Real Speaker Isn’t Mike Johnson

Mike Johnson is Speaker of the House. For now. After a handful of hard-right Republicans held out on Friday, he was reelected, winning them over...

04.01.2025 7

Daily Intelligencer

Ben Jacobs

The Republican Party Is Out of Control

Donald Trump’s first term in office was a shitshow on Capitol Hill. Congress was constantly turned upside down with sudden missives from the...

21.12.2024 70

Daily Intelligencer

Ben Jacobs

The Republican Party Is Out of Control

Donald Trump’s first term in office was a shitshow on Capitol Hill. Congress was constantly turned upside down with sudden missives from the...

21.12.2024 3

Daily Intelligencer

Ben Jacobs

The Evolution of the Trump Rally

One of the first indications that Donald Trump was a viable presidential candidate were his rallies. In the summer of 2015, the host of Celebrity...

04.11.2024 2

Daily Intelligencer

Ben Jacobs

The Evolution of the Trump Rally

One of the first indications that Donald Trump was a viable presidential candidate were his rallies. In the summer of 2015, the host of Celebrity...

04.11.2024 10

Daily Intelligencer

Ben Jacobs

The Last Stand of the Never Trumpers

As soon as Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia failed, he went on a revenge mission against the top three Republicans in...

03.11.2024 1

Daily Intelligencer

Ben Jacobs

The Last Stand of the Never Trumpers

As soon as Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia failed, he went on a revenge mission against the top three Republicans in...

03.11.2024 10

Daily Intelligencer

Ben Jacobs

The Former Editor in Chief of the Daily Beast Is Running for Office. Interesting.

Tweet Share Share Comment In what has somehow been nearly a decade and a half spent as a political journalist, I’ve encountered a lot of election...

01.11.2024 3

Slate

Ben Jacobs

Elon Musk’s Out-of-This-World Political Rally

This past weekend, some 1,500 people packed into a Marriott ballroom in downtown Lancaster, Pennsylvania, seeking advice. Many of them wore red...

30.10.2024 2

Daily Intelligencer

Ben Jacobs

Elon Musk’s Out-of-This-World Political Rally

This past weekend, some 1,500 people packed into a Marriott ballroom in downtown Lancaster, Pennsylvania, seeking advice. Many of them wore red...

30.10.2024 3

Daily Intelligencer

Ben Jacobs

Wisconsin’s Trump Democrats Could Determine the Election

After Donald Trump’s surprising win in 2016, reporters frantically rushed to diners in the Rust Belt to find the white working-class voters who...

22.10.2024 1

Daily Intelligencer

Ben Jacobs

Wisconsin’s Trump Democrats Could Determine the Election

After Donald Trump’s surprising win in 2016, reporters frantically rushed to diners in the Rust Belt to find the white working-class voters who...

22.10.2024 2

Daily Intelligencer

Ben Jacobs

The Revenge of Arizona’s McCain Republicans

Arizona was once a safe Republican state in presidential elections. Though pockets of Democrats existed — on Native American reservations in the...

16.10.2024 8

Daily Intelligencer

Ben Jacobs

The Revenge of Arizona’s McCain Republicans

Arizona was once a safe Republican state in presidential elections. Though pockets of Democrats existed — on Native American reservations in the...

16.10.2024 10

Daily Intelligencer

Ben Jacobs

The Senate Race the Democrats Absolutely, Totally, Utterly Have to Win

It’s an overcast Saturday morning at what outwardly appears to be a rural county fairground in Maryland. But it’s not. It may have once been rural,...

09.10.2024 3

New Republic

Ben Jacobs

Republican Insiders Were Thrilled By J.D. Vance’s Debate

After Donald Trump’s ill-fated debate against Kamala Harris where vigorously defended his crowd sizes and lied about Haitians in Springfield, Ohio...

02.10.2024 8

Daily Intelligencer

Ben Jacobs

The Election Could Come Down to … Omaha?

The center of the political universe this month has been in Omaha, Nebraska. It’s not that the blue-collar workers in Rust Belt Pennsylvania or...

28.09.2024 8

Daily Intelligencer

Ben Jacobs

The Election Could Come Down to … Omaha?

The center of the political universe this month has been in Omaha, Nebraska. It’s not that the blue-collar workers in Rust Belt Pennsylvania or...

28.09.2024 3

Daily Intelligencer

Ben Jacobs

The Election Will Be Decided Here

Congressman Scott Perry is eating chocolate ice cream in the shadow of Newt Gingrich’s childhood home in Hummelstown, Pennsylvania, during a street...

20.09.2024 2

Daily Intelligencer

Ben Jacobs

The Election Will Be Decided Here

Congressman Scott Perry is eating chocolate ice cream in the shadow of Newt Gingrich’s childhood home in Hummelstown, Pennsylvania, during a street...

20.09.2024 6

Daily Intelligencer

Ben Jacobs

Keep busy the Sabbath day

23.08.2024 3

Washington Examiner

Ben Jacobs

Harris hires a hu

23.08.2024 20

Washington Examiner

Ben Jacobs

Yes, Christianity weaponized marriage, and that is good

23.08.2024 2

Washington Examiner

Ben Jacobs

Jeff Buckley’s Grace at 30: A terrific album that is also the most overrated in history

23.08.2024 2

Washington Examiner

Ben Jacobs

The NFL’s Ship of Theseus

23.08.2024 2

Washington Examiner

Ben Jacobs

‘Hotties for Harris’ Is Where the DNC Gets Horny

There are affinity groups of every kind at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. There are events for Black Democrats, Hispanic Democrats,...

22.08.2024 3

Daily Intelligencer

Ben Jacobs

‘Hotties for Harris’ Is Where the DNC Gets Horny

There are affinity groups of every kind at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. There are events for Black Democrats, Hispanic Democrats,...

22.08.2024 3

Daily Intelligencer

Ben Jacobs

Josh Shapiro Was Snubbed, But He Isn’t Showing It

The decision by Kamala Harris to choose Minnesota governor Tim Walz over Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro to be her running mate arrived like a...

21.08.2024 2

Daily Intelligencer

Ben Jacobs

Here’s Everyone Tim Walz Beat to Win the Veepstakes

For several well-placed Republican insiders on Tuesday, the response to Kamala Harris’s choice of Tim Walz as vice-president was one of...

06.08.2024 4

Daily Intelligencer

Ben Jacobs

Republican Operatives Are ‘Thrilled’ Tim Walz Is the VP Pick

For several well-placed Republican insiders on Tuesday, the response to Kamala Harris’s choice of Tim Walz as vice-president was one of...

06.08.2024 2

Daily Intelligencer

Ben Jacobs

Spoiler Alert: Kamala Harris Will Win the Nomination

Kamala Harris will be the Democratic nominee for president. With Joe Biden’s shock withdrawal on Sunday afternoon, the stage is set for Harris to...

22.07.2024 2

Daily Intelligencer

Ben Jacobs

Republicans Wait for Kamala Harris, Fear Michelle Obama

From the arena floor to the lobbyist-funded open bars, Republicans in Milwaukee for their convention this week have been talking mostly about one...

21.07.2024 2

Daily Intelligencer

Ben Jacobs

Republicans Are Waiting for Kamala Harris and Fearing Michelle Obama

Republicans in Milwaukee for their convention this week have been talking mostly about one thing, from the arena floor to the lobbyist-funded open...

19.07.2024 20

Daily Intelligencer

Ben Jacobs

The Moment J.D. Vance Became Trump’s Official VP Pick

There was a human crush on the floor of the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee when Donald Trump’s brand-new running mate arrived. Television cameras,...

16.07.2024 2

Daily Intelligencer

Ben Jacobs