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Tweet Share Share Comment Nominating Fox News personality Pete Hegseth to be secretary of defense was, from the start, one of the least serious...
Tweet Share Share Comment It has come to our attention that President-elect Donald Trump has announced that he will be nominating Kash Patel, a...
Tweet Share Share Comment Presidential transition season in Washington has a customary rhythm. About 20 people get nominated for Cabinet positions...
Tweet Share Share Comment What a week it’s been! But hey, we made it through. Time to crack a cold one, put up our feet, and browse the New York...
Tweet Share Share Comment One of the more delightfully dumb and blessedly low-impact storylines of the first Donald Trump administration involved a...
Tweet Share Share Comment Since we wrote last week that Donald Trump seems to have homed in on “having been on TV” as the main qualification he’s...
Tweet Share Share Comment One of the concerns that Democrats and other observers have raised about a potential second Trump administration is that...
Tweet Share Share Comment Well, the intra-Democratic meltdown over Kamala Harris’ loss was not put to rest by my eloquent piece from last week, it...
Tweet Share Share Comment The recrimination game among Democrats and pundits is on in a big way, and a major theme is the idea that the party has...
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 for U.S. Senate in...
Tweet Share Share Comment Welcome to How Good Is This, Really? —renamed from the original How Bad Is This, Really? —a recurring feature in...
Tweet Share Share Comment Slate takes final stock of just how Not Normal this election was. Joe Biden’s exit from the presidential race over the...
Tweet Share Share Comment In the final few days of a campaign, candidates try to project a “closing message” that they believe will win over any...
Tweet Share Share Comment Almost exactly two years ago, the New York Times’ Cooking section printed a delightful piece of politics...
Tweet Share Share Comment On Tuesday, the New York Times and the Atlantic each published stories about Donald Trump’s history of denigrating...
Tweet Share Share Comment Welcome to How Good Is This, Really? —renamed from the original How Bad Is This, Really? —a recurring feature in...
Tweet Share Share Comment Why is Kamala Harris doing worse with Black and Latino voters than previous Democratic presidential candidates? That’s...
Tweet Share Share Comment At an Oct. 5 rally in Pennsylvania, Donald Trump told a seemingly apocryphal story about a decades-old women’s...
Tweet Share Share Comment About a month ago, polling guru Nate Silver wrote a (paywalled) piece for his Substack called “This Was Trump’s Election...
Tweet Share Share Comment Welcome to How Good Is This, Really? —renamed from the original How Bad Is This, Really? —a recurring feature in...
Tweet Share Share Comment Kamala Harris is holding steady at a 3-point national lead in polling averages—enough to make her the favorite to win the...
Tweet Share Share Comment For most of Tuesday’s debate in New York City, Republican Ohio Sen. and vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance did well by...
Tweet Share Share Comment Kamala Harris, by most available measures, has run a successful campaign so far. Since she became the presumptive...
Tweet Share Share Comment Welcome to How Good Is This, Really? —renamed from the original How Bad Is This, Really? —a recurring feature in...
Tweet Share Share Comment Since I started writing about J.D. Vance in 2022, I’ve repeatedly noticed his use of a certain rhetorical technique that...
Tweet Share Share Comment Welcome to How Good Is This, Really? —renamed from the original How Bad Is This, Really? —a recurring feature in...
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 small but significant...
Tweet Share Share Comment Kamala Harris isn’t in terrible shape right now, but her supporters don’t have to look too far to find reasons to panic,...
Tweet Share Share Comment On Friday, Donald Trump accepted Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s endorsement and appeared with the independent candidate at a...
Tweet Share Share Comment It’s been quite a ride for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the presidential race—filled with memories, shirtlessness, a staunch...
Tweet Share Share Comment All day Thursday, rumors swirled online (and apparently in person in Chicago) that someone big was going to make a...
Tweet Share Share Comment You could argue—and many have—that American football is a fundamentally conservative activity. It’s the most...