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Sean Duffy Filmed Reality Show Over Past Seven Months

What’s stopping you from celebrating America’s 250th birthday by loading your whole family in the car and road-tripping across this great nation?...

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Margaret Hartmann

Virginia Court Blows Up Democrats’ 2026 Redistricting Gains

In a decision that caps a disastrous ten days for Democrats struggling to offset Republican congressional gerrymanders, a 4-3 majority of the Virginia...

yesterday 0

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Ed Kilgore

Why the Jim Comey Prosecution Is About to Fall Apart (Again)

When James Comey appears in federal court in North Carolina on Monday, it’ll mostly be about housekeeping. The parties will set schedules for...

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Elie Honig

Kalshi and Polymarket Are Worried About Their Reputations

The prediction-market industry has a lot of reasons to be optimistic right now. It’s growing extremely quickly, multiplying many times in size since...

yesterday 0

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John Herrman

Gold 22-Foot Trump Statue Definitely Isn’t a False Idol

It says a lot about our current president that in response to the news that a giant gold statue of Donald Trump was dedicated this week, you have to...

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Margaret Hartmann

I Grew Up in Poverty. Spirit Airlines Was My Lifeline.

Spirit Airlines, the ultra-low-cost flyer that shut down operations last weekend, was often the butt of jokes. As a frequent Spirit flyer, this meant...

previous day 1

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Vanessa Ogle

How J.D. Vance Remade the Catholic Right

In an effort to smooth relations with Pope Leo XIV and Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni, the Trump administration is sending its best. Not...

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Sarah Jones

What We Know About the Cruise Ship Hantavirus Outbreak

An outbreak of the rare and dangerous hantavirus aboard the Dutch-flagged cruise ship MV Hondius has left three passengers dead, forced the medical...

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Nia Prater

The Exquisite Timing of Trump’s Indiana Revenge Campaign

When Donald Trump furiously ordered his minions to find and fund primary challenges to seven Indiana Republican state senators who refused to conduct...

wednesday 3

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Ed Kilgore

Kash Patel’s War Against the Atlantic Intensifies

On the heels of FBI director Kash Patel filing a $250 million defamation suit against the Atlantic, MS NOW reported Wednesday that his agency is now...

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Michael Calderone

Trump Still Thinks His Confusion Can Crush Iran

It has been more than nine weeks since President Trump started his war with Iran, and somehow he’s still keeping everyone guessing — about whether...

wednesday 2

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Chas Danner, Benjamin Hart, And Matt Stieb

The Awful Voting-Rights Decision Could Screw With NYC

The recent gutting of the 1965 Voting Rights Act by the Supreme Court’s conservative majority will injure American democracy in ways that go far...

wednesday 2

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Errol Louis

The NBA Player and the Gambler Who Needed Him

It was early spring 2024, and at an overlit food court in an Atlantic City casino called Resorts, a group of poker dealers was holed up at a table...

wednesday 1

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Jay Bulger

Trump’s Polling Is Getting Into George W. Bush Territory

At this moment in his second term, it’s very difficult to find bright spots for Donald Trump — other than the perpetual loyalty of his MAGA base...

05.05.2026 1

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Ed Kilgore

The White Man Crying Discrimination at the New York Times

A white male New York Times employee filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging the paper had discriminated against...

05.05.2026 0

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Charlotte Klein

If the Knicks Don’t Make the NBA Finals, They’re Hopeless

This has to be the year, doesn’t it? The last time the Knicks made the NBA Finals was 1999, when their current star point guard was two years old...

05.05.2026 4

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Will Leitch

The Cursed Generation

Every generation has it tough, but some are more burdened than others. Consider the millions of newly minted college graduates entering a labor market...

05.05.2026 2

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Ryu Spaeth

Mamdani Is Treading a Little Too Cautiously With the NYPD

A year ago, Zohran Mamdani may have been on the pavement outside Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Bushwick. The Brooklyn neighborhood, which ICE has...

05.05.2026 3

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Ross Barkan

Trump’s Heartfelt Truth Tirade for Hospitalized Giuliani

Rudy Giuliani has been hospitalized and is in critical but stable condition. His spokesman, Ted Goodman, announced the news in a social-media post on...

04.05.2026 4

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Margaret Hartmann

Trump ‘Wants Action,’ May Restart Iran War

President Donald Trump continues to insist the Iran war is essentially over after an April cease-fire agreement, but his order for the United States...

04.05.2026 4

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Nia Prater

Saying ‘Me Too’ in an Empty Courtroom

Harvey Weinstein?” the court-information officer repeated blankly when I asked for directions one morning — as if to say, “Are you sure?”...

04.05.2026 6

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Irin Carmon

The Big OPEC Shakeup Is About a Lot More Than Oil

In a blockbuster announcement last week, the United Arab Emirates announced that it would leave the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries...

04.05.2026 2

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Matt Stieb, Adam K. Raymond, And Chas Danner

The Race to Be the Face of Manhattan

The most important thing to know about the 12th Congressional District of New York is that it should not exist. Since time immemorial, Manhattan was...

04.05.2026 4

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David Freedlander

What Democrats Can Do to Restore Voting Rights Post-Callais

In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Louisiana v. Callais, much attention has been paid to its impact on the midterms and...

02.05.2026 20

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Ed Kilgore

The Mystery of ‘Human Meat’ for Sale on Temu

I should get this out of the way: I have no good reason to believe that Temu, the popular discount shopping app, is selling human meat disguised as...

02.05.2026 6

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John Herrman

Palantir Comes to Campus

On a Thursday in April, I headed to the north end of Yale’s campus and persuaded a passing fellow student to swipe me into a building. Fourteen...

02.05.2026 3

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Alex Bronzini-Vender

Trump’s Iran War Is Now Officially Illegal

Despite President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that his widely unpopular military misadventure in the Middle East is going great and ahead of...

01.05.2026 10

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Chas Danner, Benjamin Hart, And Matt Stieb

Nobody Embodies MAGA’s Clownish Menace Like Pete Hegseth

The MAGA movement remains a dangerous force in American life, but it has never been weaker. Nobody embodies this dark impotence quite like Defense...

01.05.2026 9

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Ross Barkan

Don’t Bet on a Prediction Market Insider Trading Crackdown

Welcome to the new age of insider trading. It’s not only for the Gordon Gekko–type Wall Street barons anymore; now it’s for the Jason Bournes,...

01.05.2026 7

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Elie Honig

How a Boomer-Lib Wine Importer Took Down Trump’s Tariffs

The only time that wine importer Victor O. Schwartz was in the same room with Donald Trump was during a lunch in the 1990s at Jean-Georges, the...

01.05.2026 3

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Matt Stieb, Adam K. Raymond, And Chas Danner

Graham Platner Has Won the Battle. Can He Win the War?

On Thursday morning, Maine Governor Janet Mills announced that she would suspend her struggling senate campaign. Mills’s decision was not a...

30.04.2026 8

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Benjamin Hart

Can You Really Choose Your ‘Best Baby’?

The written record of Arthur Zey’s decision to have a baby is extensive. For years, Arthur has measured and catalogued nearly everything about his...

30.04.2026 5

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Christopher Cox

Will the Voting-Rights Ruling Be a Disaster for Democrats?

After months of anticipation, the Supreme Court finally handed down its decision in the voting-rights case Louisiana v. Callais on Wednesday. In a 6-3...

30.04.2026 8

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Benjamin Hart

The Serious Implications of Supreme Court’s Callais Ruling

In its six-to-three Louisiana v. Callais decision on Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority significantly weakened the Voting...

29.04.2026 10

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Intelligencer Staff

Mamdani Loses a Fight He Shouldn’t Have Joined

It was a strange Tuesday for Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Before nightfall, he could claim at least one notable victory: an agreement with the City Council...

29.04.2026 9

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Ross Barkan

Bill Ackman Can Still Get Rich People to Give Him Money

For the past few years, it seemed as if everyone on X was making fun of Bill Ackman. Mostly this was because the billionaire investor was on X too...

29.04.2026 6

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Matt Stieb, Adam K. Raymond, And Chas Danner

I Miss My Old Life

Last March, a fog took hold in my head and never left. It settled there somewhere between the moment a DHS agent asked me, “Are you Mahmoud...

29.04.2026 10

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Mahmoud Khalil

Trump’s Gerrymander Gambit Has (Mostly) Failed

Last week, Virginia voters narrowly passed a state constitutional amendment allowing Democratic legislators to rewrite the congressional maps, which...

28.04.2026 9

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Ed Kilgore

My Adventures With ‘The AI That Actually Does Things’

For a week in January, a website called Moltbook drove the internet insane. Maybe you noticed. A Reddit clone designed for use by AI agents, Moltbook...

28.04.2026 10

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John Herrman

New Details Emerge About WHCD Shooter’s Path to Violence

An annual Washington, D.C., tradition was upended Saturday when a man identified as Cole Tomas Allen rushed a security checkpoint at the White House...

27.04.2026 6

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Nia Prater

King Charles Visits U.S.: All the News, Pomp, & Royal Drama

King Charles III’s state visit to the United States this week is awkward right down to its core. The visit celebrates the 250th anniversary of...

27.04.2026 10

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Margaret Hartmann

We Can Stop Pretending Trump Was Ever Pro-Worker

In the grand scheme of MAGA implosions, Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s forced resignation barely registers. She isn’t infamous like Kristi Noem or Pam...

27.04.2026 10

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Ross Barkan

‘I’m Not Sure When I’m Ever Not Going to Be Angry Anymore’

During the last days of USAID, one Trump appointee told longtime agency official Nicholas Enrich that to sway skeptical overseers about the dangers of...

27.04.2026 8

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Benjamin Hart

The Strange Aftermath of the WHCD Shooting

It was a little after 8:30 PM and I had just sat down at Café Milano, the white-tablecloth Georgetown watering hole loved and hated by both sides of...

26.04.2026 9

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Charlotte Klein

My Experience Inside the Ballroom During the WHCD Shooting

Never for a moment did I think I was in danger when shots rang out at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner, although nearly every person...

26.04.2026 8

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Errol Louis

Why Can’t We Treat GLP-1’s Like Medicine?

Last summer, my skin began to itch. I did not have a rash, or an insect bite, which meant the cause remained a mystery and lotion didn’t help me for...

26.04.2026 10

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Sarah Jones

Is Melania a U.S. Citizen? Her Immigration Story, Explained.

Melania Trump is, theoretically, an open book. She’s been in the public eye since she began dating Donald Trump in the late ‘90s, she released a...

26.04.2026 30

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Margaret Hartmann

The Downgrading of the American Tech Worker

Everyone in tech is worried about layoffs. Since the beginning of the year, Block (formerly Square) cut its workforce nearly in half, Oracle began...

26.04.2026 30

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John Herrman

What We Know About the WHCA Dinner Shooting: Live Updates

President Trump was rushed off stage at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday night after a gunman attacked a Secret...

26.04.2026 70

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Intelligencer Staff

The Whole Mike Vrabel–Dianna Russini Mess, Explained

Football fans and team executives alike descended on Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania this week for the start of the NFL draft, one of the most highly...

24.04.2026 7

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Nia Prater