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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...
Tweet Share Share Comment Longtime Donald Trump adviser and right-wing media figure Steve Bannon is going to jail, sources...
Tweet Share Share Comment For a political leader obsessed with flags, national greatness rhetoric, and other expressions of...
Tweet Share Share Comment A big question is looming after Donald Trump’s felony conviction in a scheme to hide hush money...
Tweet Share Share Comment One of the right’s most common rhetorical responses to the prosecutions of Donald Trump has been to...
Tweet Share Share Comment Welcome to How Bad Is This, Really? , a recurring feature in which we take the temperature on...
Tweet Share Share Comment During the recent Republican-led congressional hearings about arguably antisemitic slogans used by...
Tweet Share Share Comment Donald Trump needs to pick a vice presidential candidate soon. The Republican National Convention in...
Tweet Share Share Comment Last week, the New York Times broke the news that there was an upside-down American flag flying...
Tweet Share Share Comment On Thursday night, the New York Times reported—with photo evidence—that an upside-down American flag was flown...
Tweet Share Share Comment This is Totally Normal Quote of the Day , a feature highlighting a statement from the news that exemplifies just how...
Tweet Share Share Comment It’s gotten buried a bit underneath news about the negotiations over a cease-fire in Gaza, the related protests on U.S....
At 2 p.m. in the basement of the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel, the mood was distrustful, the air was humid with human moistness, and the disagreements over...
Tweet Share Share Comment Where do allegations of election fraud originate? The answer can usually be narrowed down to “a...
Tweet Share Share Comment Five military horses being prepared for participation in a ceremonial event ran wild in central London...
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...
Tweet Share Share Comment On Friday at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and House...
Tweet Share Share Comment The story of 2022’s Senate races was that Republicans—at Donald Trump’s urging—botched several...
Tweet Share Share Comment As president, Donald Trump appointed Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. Barrett then became the...
Welcome back to the Surge, Slate’s Saturday-morning rundown of the most impactful and/or hugely embarrassing figures from the week in politics....
Tweet Share Share Comment When Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez was charged in September with accepting a big sack of...
Tweet Share Share Comment Heading into the Ohio Republican Senate primary on Tuesday, there was some rumbling and grumbling in...
Tweet Share Share Comment Things have gotten weird and wild in Ohio’s Republican Senate primary with the publication of an...
Tweet Share Share Comment Heading into Thursday night’s State of the Union address, there were a number of topics that...
Tweet Share Share Comment Despite surging to a 4-point victory in Vermont’s primary, Republican presidential aspirant Nikki...
Tweet Share Share Comment When last we spoke about the Michigan Republican Party, a faction led by election truther and Trump...
Tweet Share Share Comment For Republicans, election results have become fungible. Losing a race but refusing to admit that...