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Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, which wants to begin with a quick reminder that you have until 6 p.m. on Tuesday to get 300 delegate...
Tweet Share Share Comment President Joe Biden delivered a brief, 10-minute address from the Oval Office Wednesday night...
Tweet Share Share Comment Republicans did not fall out of a coconut tree, and they had their talking points ready by the time...
Tweet Share Share Comment Twenty-seven minutes after President Joe Biden withdrew from the presidential race, he announced that...
Tweet Share Share Comment Eight years ago in Cleveland, I was on the floor of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland...
Tweet Share Share Comment On Monday night, former President Donald Trump emerged at the Republican National Convention in...
Tweet Share Share Comment The 2024 Republican National Convention is a happy place. That’s unusual. In recent cycles, whether...
Tweet Share Share Comment The Republican National Convention was set to be pretty straightforward this year. Donald Trump had...
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, a politics newsletter that has learned the hard way never to ask for a slow presidential election to...
Tweet Share Share Comment “Oookey dokey,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer opened his weekly press conference on...
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, the only politics newsletter that would CRUSH either Joe Biden or Donald Trump on the golf course and...
Tweet Share Share Comment Almost exactly five years ago to this day, following the first Democratic presidential primary debate...
Tweet Share Share Comment This is Totally Normal Quote of the Day , a feature highlighting a statement from the news that...
Tweet Share Share Comment What message do you think Donald Trump would like to broadcast about President Joe Biden ahead of the...
Tweet Share Share Comment It hasn’t been the easiest couple of years for Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert. Her image as an...
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, the newsletter that digests the previous seven days of Slate’s coverage of Lansing, Michigan. This...
Tweet Share Share Comment Something unusual happened last week when former President Donald Trump visited Capitol Hill for the...
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, the politics newsletter that wonders what anti-gay slurs Pope Francis had for President Joe Biden. ...
Last October, when Kevin McCarthy was ousted as speaker of the house, one Republican of the eight who voted against him stood out as the odd bedfellow...
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, a newsletter whose 150 meals a year at Morton’s the Steakhouse suddenly look like child’s play. ...
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, the first edition since the United States became a banana republic. So long as newsletter gags are...
Tweet Share Share Comment Donald Trump was found guilty on 34 of 34 felony counts in New York court on Thursday afternoon. That...
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, Slate’s weekly newsletter on politics, which, after reading some tweets about the Alitos’ front...
Welcome to this weekend’s edition of the Surge, Slate’s politics newsletter in which all of the bad entries are Mrs. Alito’s fault. A lot of...
Tweet Share Share Comment And just like that, Joe Biden and Donald Trump have two debates on the books, with the first coming in late June and the...
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, Slate’s beloved politics newsletter, which neatly occupies the space in your brain eaten by worms....
Tweet Share Share Comment Update, May 8, 2024, at 4:53 p.m.: Shortly after this article was published, Greene brought to...
Tweet Share Share Comment This is Totally Normal Quote of the Day , a feature highlighting a statement from the news that...
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, Slate’s weekly politics newsletter. We have barricaded ourselves inside the C-suite at Slate Tower...
Tweet Share Share Comment Beautiful things can’t last forever: The relationship between Donald Trump and Kari Lake is...
Tweet Share Share Comment A version of this story was featured in the Surge , Slate’s weekly newsletter about all the...
Welcome to this weekend’s edition of the Surge, the best reading material for when you’re bored in your tent on a college encampment. We’ve...
Tweet Share Share Comment On Wednesday, the president signed into law the $95 billion aid package providing security assistance...
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...
Tweet Share Share Comment This is Totally Normal Quote of the Day , a feature highlighting a statement from the news that...
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...