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Tweet Share Share Comment The recrimination game among Democrats and pundits is on in a big way, and a major theme is the idea...
Tweet Share Share Comment Not too long ago, things did not look that great for J.D. Vance. He’d decided to run as a Republican...
Tweet Share Share Comment Welcome to How Good Is This, Really? —renamed from the original How Bad Is This, Really? ...
Tweet Share Share Comment Slate takes final stock of just how Not Normal this election was. Joe Biden’s exit from the...
Tweet Share Share Comment In the final few days of a campaign, candidates try to project a “closing message” that they...
Tweet Share Share Comment Almost exactly two years ago, the New York Times’ Cooking section printed a delightful piece of...
Tweet Share Share Comment On Tuesday, the New York Times and the Atlantic each published stories about Donald Trump’s history...
Tweet Share Share Comment Welcome to How Good Is This, Really? —renamed from the original How Bad Is This, Really? ...
Tweet Share Share Comment Why is Kamala Harris doing worse with Black and Latino voters than previous Democratic presidential...
Tweet Share Share Comment At an Oct. 5 rally in Pennsylvania, Donald Trump told a seemingly apocryphal story about a decades-old...
Tweet Share Share Comment About a month ago, polling guru Nate Silver wrote a (paywalled) piece for his Substack called “This...
Tweet Share Share Comment Welcome to How Good Is This, Really? —renamed from the original How Bad Is This, Really? ...
Tweet Share Share Comment Kamala Harris is holding steady at a 3-point national lead in polling averages—enough to make her...
Tweet Share Share Comment For most of Tuesday’s debate in New York City, Republican Ohio Sen. and vice presidential nominee...
Tweet Share Share Comment Kamala Harris, by most available measures, has run a successful campaign so far. Since she became the...
Tweet Share Share Comment Welcome to How Good Is This, Really? —renamed from the original How Bad Is This, Really? ...
Tweet Share Share Comment Since I started writing about J.D. Vance in 2022, I’ve repeatedly noticed his use of a certain...
Tweet Share Share Comment Welcome to How Good Is This, Really? —renamed from the original How Bad Is This, Really? ...
Hello and welcome back to the Surge, Slate’s weekly roundup of the newsmaking-est figures in U.S. politics! I’m Ben Mathis-Lilley, filling in for...
Tweet Share Share Comment Kamala Harris had two goals in Tuesday night’s presidential debate. The first was to convince the...
Tweet Share Share Comment Kamala Harris isn’t in terrible shape right now, but her supporters don’t have to look too far to...
Tweet Share Share Comment On Friday, Donald Trump accepted Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s endorsement and appeared with the...
Tweet Share Share Comment It’s been quite a ride for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the presidential race—filled with memories,...
Tweet Share Share Comment All day Thursday, rumors swirled online (and apparently in person in Chicago) that someone big was...
Tweet Share Share Comment You could argue—and many have—that American football is a fundamentally conservative activity....
Tweet Share Share Comment Welcome to How Good Is This, Really? —recently renamed from the original How Bad Is This,...
Tweet Share Share Comment Last Thursday, standing on a tarmac in Michigan in front of Air Force Two, Kamala Harris took some...
Tweet Share Share Comment Since he was nominated for the vice presidency, Republican Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance has been in the news...
Tweet Share Share Comment There’s a lot of regret inside the Republican Party right now about the selection of Ohio Sen. J.D....
Tweet Share Share Comment Kamala Harris has one job: Persuading currently undecided, indifferent, or loosely Trump-attached...
Tweet Share Share Comment Welcome to How Bad Is This, Really? —or maybe this time we should call it How Good Is This,...
Tweet Share Share Comment Very slowly and then all at once, Joe Biden got out of the presidential race. In a Sunday afternoon...
Tweet Share Share Comment Heading into the weekend, there seem to be few remaining obstacles to Joe Biden stepping down from the...
Tweet Share Share Comment Looks like it’s all over but the shouting. The question is, how much shouting is there going to be?...
Tweet Share Share Comment Something strange is going on in Poll World. Simply put, FiveThirtyEight’s model gives Joe Biden a...
Tweet Share Share Comment On Saturday, what was already one of the more unusual presidential elections in U.S. history took...
Tweet Share Share Comment Welcome to How Bad Is This, Really? , a recurring feature in which we take the temperature of...
Tweet Share Share Comment Over the weekend, several more mainstream (i.e., nonleftist) elected Democrats said that they are...
Welcome back to the Surge, Slate’s guide to the most notable figures of the week in politics. I’m Ben Mathis-Lilley, filling in for Jim Newell,...
Tweet Share Share Comment Heading into the weekend, Joe Biden’s political standing is not great. The Washington Post reported...
Tweet Share Share Comment There are a lot of pundits and reporters and sources out there speculating about what an open...
Tweet Share Share Comment Last Thursday, 81-year-old president Joe Biden responded to one of the first questions at his debate...
Tweet Share Share Comment Hey, how was everyone’s Thursday night? Things didn’t go so well for President Joe Biden or the...
Tweet Share Share Comment Welcome to How Bad Is This, Really? , a recurring feature in which we take the temperature of...
Tweet Share Share Comment On Wednesday, no less credible a source than Slate.com announced that Lansing, Michigan, is the most...
Tweet Share Share Comment In late May, Politico ran an article with the trollish headline “White House to the left: We told...
Tweet Share Share Comment Fascinating and important stuff in presidential politics this weekend as the Joe Biden and Donald...
Tweet Share Share Comment It all started, as the most exciting moments in Western thought tend to do, with a provocative but...
Tweet Share Share Comment Welcome to How Bad Is This, Really? , a recurring feature in which we take the temperature of...