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One of the big narratives of the 2026 midterm elections is that in Democratic primaries, young progressive insurgents are knocking off old centrist or...
Both Apple and Google quickly changed the name of Lake Ontario for U.S. users of their respective map apps after President Trump signed an executive...
In August, Donald Trump threatened the Center for American Progress with a $5 billion defamation suit, over a report that concluded his deployments of...
Democrats should stop obsessing over the foolish, petty fights that dominate cable news, says former state senator Daniel Squadron. With just over 60...
Nailing down what exactly Donald Trump is doing to the White House and who’s paying for it has been surprisingly difficult. Most notably, Americans...
With nine weeks before Election Day, a federal whistleblower is raising alarm that the U.S. Postal Service’s rushed implementation of a new and...
When Melania Trump reemerged from her month-long hibernation on August 20, Natalie Harp found herself out of the picture — literally. Harp is...
For the past 20-plus years, men’s tennis has served up lots of awe and very few shocks. A handful of players, starting with the Big Three and...
Donald Trump’s Justice Department just had a big, stupid, embarrassing summer. It conjured a slush fund designed to pay $1.776 billion of taxpayer...
Over the weekend, Google announced that it would comply with Donald Trump’s executive order directing the official renaming of Lake Ontario to...
Right now, U.S. senator Jon Ossoff is enjoying a bit of a rock-star moment. He’s raised an enormous haul of cash for his reelection campaign. He’s...
On June 5, 1989, the day after the Chinese government sent troops to slaughter demonstrators gathered at Tiananmen Square, a 17-year-old American...
The heart of the 2026 midterm-election battle is a struggle for the high ground of public opinion between supporters and opponents of the president of...
In terms of their relations with the U.S., Canada, and Iran have very little in common. One is America’s closest neighbor and second-largest trade...
Democratic representative James Talarico and state Republican attorney general Ken Paxton emerged victorious from their contentious primaries and are...
For a data-driven number cruncher of the highest order, Nate Silver is refreshingly honest in admitting his skepticism about the Senate candidacy of...
With Karoline Leavitt departing as press secretary, the White House loses one of its most conspicuous women. Leavitt, a 29 year-old mother of two,...
On Thursday, President Trump made good on perhaps the silliest threat he has directed toward Canada amid the burgeoning trade war, signing an...
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. So you might think that the president of the United States, a native New Yorker who was in...
It doesn’t take an MBA from Stanford to know that the biggest companies in Silicon Valley tend to cozy up to whatever political party is in power....
Last week, the Pentagon fired three journalists at military newspaper Stars and Stripes: editor-in-chief Erik Slavin, publisher Max Lederer, and...
On December 9, 2021, the New York City Council met to decide if noncitizens should be allowed to vote in all municipal elections. Versions of Local...
The trade war President Trump started with Canada seems to be preoccupying him far more than the actual war he started in Iran. That was apparent on...
There has always been an element of fundamental duplicity in the second Trump administration’s mass-deportation program. In promoting it during the...
There was a time, not too long ago, when Republicans would be totally stoked to gather together and enjoy some classic Donald Trump rally rants....
It’s been abundantly clear that President Trump’s war with Iran was a colossal mistake from the moment it began, but remarkably, six months later,...
Carl Gunn is outside by his pool in St. Petersburg, Florida, sitting near his weapon of choice: a pool skimmer. For the past two months, Gunn has been...
Despite a lot of late buzz from the D.C. punditry about interim senator Darline Graham wrecking her campaign for a full term with an admission of...
Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, has agreed to pay up to $17 billion in penalties to a coalition of states to settle the landmark federal...
In the past year, data-center construction has become an unavoidable, extraordinarily toxic issue in local politics. This was an organic process:...
After trade negotiations between the United States and Canada collapsed last week, the Trump administration slapped new 50 percent tariffs on $20...
Tonight’s tussle for control of the Kings County Democratic Party, scheduled to be held at the Thomas Jefferson Democratic Club, is the latest...
Donald Trump is no constitutional scholar, but he has long understood and exploited this under-recognized feature of our legal system: It’s hard to...
It’s a few hours before polls close in Michigan, and Rebecca Katz is alone in front of the stage at the Majestic Theatre in Midtown Detroit, pacing....
The backlash to data centers seems to be spreading like a contagion, and, with the midterm elections only a few months away, candidates are trying...
Meta has endured a lot of scandal and controversy over the years, but its status as one of the most valuable companies in the world was never really...
Look, the kid is fine at soccer. At 11, he’s competitive, and he loves the game. But if his mother, Elizabeth, had it her way, he would still be on...
The 42nd president of the United States just turned 80 this past week, and you have to be pretty long in the tooth yourself to remember how very young...
One of the things about politics that people love to hate is polling. To a certain extent, this antipathy is entirely understandable. As critics often...
Living in the future continues to be really weird. It’s 2026, and we’ve got a lot of new high tech stuff, some of which is cool, entirely useful,...
There’s a lot of talk in Democratic circles about the need for “generational change,” which isn’t surprising given the proximate end of a...
In 2003, the Southern Poverty Law Center warned of a “bizarre” label gaining popularity with the right. “Cultural Marxism” was everywhere,...
It is a Monday afternoon in August, and midtown is as empty as it gets all year. But Randy Mastro, the lawyer who has made himself a sharp thorn in...
Ken Paxton secured the Republican Party nomination in the Texas Senate race with a political boost from President Donald Trump, but what should be a...
Democrats’ best hope for the midterms is that voters only have one thing when they head to the polls in November: their opinion of Donald Trump. If,...
In 1998, government lawyer Stephen Houck made a novel argument. Asked why the U.S. wasn’t summoning Bill Gates to testify in its antitrust case...
On the last Thursday of May, Tanya Simon’s staff packed up her office. They filled boxes with personal items accumulated over more than 25 years at...
The richest people in the universe are used to getting what they want on account of their gargantuan piles of money. Want to buy access to a...
Absolute loyalty to Donald Trump is a job requirement for everyone he employs. So how far do you have to go to scare other people on Team Trump with...
Throughout her brief career as a senator and as a candidate to remain one, Darline Graham has gone to some lengths to distance herself from the legacy...