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Tweet Share Share Comment In November, a characteristically impassioned Texas Rep. Chip Roy unloaded in a House floor speech...
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...
Tweet Share Share Comment During a House vote Thursday, Speaker Mike Johnson found himself surrounded by members of the...
Hello friends, and welcome to a Surge unlike any other. Well, we guess it’s a lot like the other Surges (perfect). This week, hoo boy, we’ve...
Tweet Share Share Comment In 1864, which was not a tremendous time for women’s rights, Arizona passed a near-total abortion...
Tweet Share Share Comment On Friday, 40 House Democrats sent a letter to President Biden urging him “to reconsider your recent...
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, your politics newsletter that encourages all readers to rest your eyes this weekend before staring...
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Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, your local bookmaker for odds on who will be the House speaker any given Sunday. It was a week of...
Tweet Share Share Comment The Senate supporters of House-passed legislation targeting TikTok have a message for anyone who would...
Tweet Share Share Comment Plenty of Republicans in Congress endorse Donald Trump because they truly believe he’s the cat’s...
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, Slate’s politics newsletter that is thinking about applying to be the new special prosecutor in the...
Tweet Share Share Comment On Oct. 19 last year, more than a couple of weeks into the House’s speakerless, post–Kevin...
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, the newsletter that looks at the world of politics with the same childlike wonder Joe Biden experiences...
Tweet Share Share Comment The Slate Decision Desk tabulated votes and worked campaign insiders all night Super Tuesday, and to a...
Tweet Share Share Comment The most recent Super Tuesday, in 2020, was when Joe Biden essentially secured the Democratic...
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, the politics newsletter that insiders are suggesting could be a dark horse to serve as the next leader...
Tweet Share Share Comment Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announced on Wednesday that he would not seek another term as...
Tweet Share Share Comment Here’s some tremendous news for the Senate Republicans who say they’ll do anything to protect...
Tweet Share Share Comment Another Republican primary is in the books, and it looks much like every other contest we’ve seen so...
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge. Did you know that the Jan. 6 pinball game is actually based on a real-life story? This week, we do...
Tweet Share Share Comment During an interview on CNN this weekend, host Jake Tapper made a passing reference to guest Sen. Tim...
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Welcome to this edition of the Surge, Slate’s weekly political newsletter. And if you think things are nice and cheap in Russia, then buddy, let us...
Tweet Share Share Comment Just when everything was going perfectly for America and no one had anything to worry or complain...
Welcome to this weekend’s edition of the Surge, the only politics newsletter that Joe Biden recommended to President Georges Clemenceau of Bolivia...
Tweet Share Share Comment It would be tempting to describe the negotiation over the Senate’s border bill, which died this...
Tweet Share Share Comment This week, it’s Nevada Republicans’ turn to choose their party’s presidential nominee. The...
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, your weekly politics newsletter where we THE RAVENS GAME WAS RIGGED!! Dear reader, the reading is a...
Tweet Share Share Comment The Senate’s long-in-the-works border security and Ukraine aid bill still has not been released, but...
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, Slate’s politics newsletter dedicated in memoriam to “Meatball Ron” DeSantis (RIP), who has been...
Tweet Share Share Comment “That’s, like, parallel-universe shit,” a furious North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis exclaimed to...
Tweet Share Share Comment For as long as the Ron DeSantis presidential campaign existed, it was a fireworks display of hired...
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, the only Washington institution that doesn’t close for business under 2 inches of snow. This could...
Tweet Share Share Comment Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis did just well enough in Iowa to keep his presidential campaign going, the...
Tweet Share Share Comment Donald Trump won the Iowa Republican caucuses on Monday night in a rout, winning the first nominating...
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, where your regular author has returned after a three-month sabbatical stuck in an apple tree. We’d...
Tweet Share Share Comment Before sacrificing himself on the altar of Nikki Haley, the last great anti-Trump Republican hope,...
Tweet Share Share Comment At long last, on Saturday morning—with only hours to go before a government funding deadline—House...
Welcome to this weekend’s edition of the Surge, Slate’s politics newsletter coming to you from Washington, D.C., home to Congress—or as we call...
Tweet Share Share Comment California Sen. Dianne Feinstein has died at age 90, her office announced on Friday. A political...
Tweet Share Share Comment The second, Trump-less Republican presidential debate Wednesday night at the Ronald Reagan...
Tweet Share Share Comment When former President Donald Trump skipped the first GOP presidential primary debate on Aug. 23,...
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, Slate’s politics newsletter that, when bundled with a cheeseburger and a glass of scotch as big as...
Tweet Share Share Comment Over the weekend, a few Republican members from both the conservative House Freedom Caucus and the...
Welcome to this weekend’s edition of the Surge, Slate’s perfect politics newsletter. Hey, we’ve got a joke: You see those alien corpses in...
Tweet Share Share Comment On Tuesday morning, just as the House was returning from its generous late-summer recess, Speaker...
Tweet Share Share Comment President Biden’s trip to Asia for the G20 summit fit well within a defining narrative of his...
Welcome to this year’s first edition of Autumn Surge, Slate’s politics newsletter that’s just sittin’ here, post–Labor Day, watching the...
Tweet Share Share Comment Typically, when senators and members of Congress return from long recesses, they note that the...