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Donald Trump just turned 80 years old, he has a terrible diet, he doesn’t believe in exercise, and he has an extremely stressful job known for...
It first hit me in February 2025. I was in North Brooklyn, where I had taken my older daughter to a bookmaking workshop for kids at Storm Books &...
In June, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the Trump administration could end the temporary protected status program for Haitians, it was clear that...
For years now, Reddit has inhabited a strange and unique position on the internet. As the largest collection of forums left on the web, the...
Max Miller is unrepentant. The Republican congressman from Ohio demands that we believe him, not his ex-wife Emily Moreno. He did not throw boiling...
In the midafternoon of Tuesday, August 4, an air traffic controller in the tower of Reagan National Airport was surprised to find that he had an...
Listen, I know my scams. I’ve written about them, done TV stories about them, lived through them. But last spring, my sister got an email pitch that...
No matter how eventful your summer has been, it can’t possibly compare to FIFA President Gianni Infantino’s. Over the past month, soccer’s arch...
As the United States’ war in Iran continues into its sixth month amid fitful peace talks, President Donald Trump is forcefully denying reports that...
Movies are so back. 2026 has been Hollywood’s best year at the box office since the pandemic. And it’s all thanks to the Trumps! No, not because...
With less than 90 days to go until the midterm elections, prominent Democrats are warning that socialists running under the party’s banner will...
In April, 18 hours through a trauma shift, I received a text from my father in our family group chat. My cousin had been injured, he said. “Pray for...
Abdul El-Sayed, a public-health official who lost in a primary landslide when he ran for governor of Michigan eight years ago, eked out a victory over...
By the time the votes were to be tallied Tuesday night, it was widely assumed, mostly because of some iffy polling, that former public-health official...
President Donald Trump called off his threatened escalation of the Iran war over the weekend, saying a deal was imminent to end the war, reopen the...
Billionaire Ronald Lauder has spent decades writing checks to Republicans, giving some $40 million to the party in the last ten years alone, including...
Of all of President Donald Trump’s often haphazard changes to the nation’s capital and the White House, the creation of a helipad at the...
All things being equal, Darline Graham Nordone should have the opportunity to develop her own record and persona, both in her service as interim U.S....
One good thing about Donald Trump’s many projects celebrating himself is that they’re often pretty easy to avoid. Don’t want to think about the...
The parent company of Truth Social just launched Truth API, a service that provides a “direct, licensed, real-time feed of the platform’s most...
On August 4, both parties will hold primaries in five states: Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Virginia, and Washington. While there are many contests of...
Four years ago, some Democrats mocked Donald Trump when he took the Fifth and they claimed his invocation was as good as an admission of guilt. The...
To celebrate their second anniversary together, 22-year-old Terrica Turner and her boyfriend, Tyrese Banks, took a trip to Cancún. They flew from...
Last year, the Trump administration bulldozed yet another political norm when the president, encouraged by key advisers, pushed Texas to redistrict...
It’s a strategic truism in politics that if you can’t seize the political “center,” where a lot of unaffiliated voters live, you try to push...
In what appears to have been a classic midsummer Friday-night news dump, the Trump administration acknowledged that the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting...
Logging on to Truth Social still isn’t a very dynamic user experience; users are mostly getting AI memes, Fox News clips, and posts from Republicans...
Ninety-five days from the midterm elections, Donald Trump is struggling with Congress over his agenda. Not so much with Democrats, who have very...
July marked the official start of the pied-à-terre tax, an annual surcharge levied against secondary luxury homes in the city. It was signed into law...
A few months ago, The Economist editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes ran into Elon Musk at an event in California and asked if he’d appear on The...
On July 1, law enforcement in Vinton County, Ohio, made a horrifying discovery. Four adults were keeping 16 children confined to a single...
Todd Blanche’s nomination to become the next U.S. attorney general appears to be in peril. First, a key committee postponed its scheduled Thursday...
More than 1,200 employees at AI firms, including top executives at OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google, have signed on to a statement calling for an...
Donald Trump’s incessant crusade for the immediate enactment of the SAVE America Act is very likely to fail — thanks to a Senate Democratic...
After FIFA’s decision earlier this month to delay a one-game red-card suspension for U.S. player Folarin Balogun — which followed a phone call...
It’s always been a bit of a reach for Democrats to contemplate winning control of the U.S. Senate in 2026, given a landscape heavily tilted to the...
Dr. Anthony Fauci’s highly anticipated Capitol Hill clash with Kentucky Senator Rand Paul took an unexpected turn early Wednesday morning when the...
On the same day the late Lindsey Graham was memorialized in Washington at the Capitol and the National Cathedral, the filing period for the August 11...
Whatever one might think of Jack Smith’s performance as a prosecutor — I’ve got criticisms, and reasonable minds can differ — the guy is no...
One day when Michael Levin was a boy in Moscow, he didn’t want to eat his vegetables. “You need to eat your cucumber because it’s going to be...
The federal government’s highly publicized renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool fell short of Donald Trump’s lofty visions as...
With the August 4 primaries in Michigan and Wisconsin fast approaching, the next week is going to be very exciting for an awful lot of political...
Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced new details about his administration’s plan to open municipal grocery stores in each of the city’s boroughs,...
The Iran war, which has followed a start-stop rhythm since the U.S. and Israel launched attacks in February, is once again on pause. In part because...
Earlier this month, the popular AI platform Hugging Face disclosed a “security incident” in a blog post. In some ways, it was routine; Hugging...
Knowing what we know now about Donald Trump’s willingness to interfere with adverse election results on January 6, 2021, the run-up to the 2026...
Senator Mitch McConnell has been absent from Congress for more than a month as he recovers from what he says was a fall. This week, the former Senate...
Tensions between Zohran Mamdani and Benjamin Netanyahu have deepened after the Israeli prime minister fired back at the mayor’s video accusing him...
Justin Sun was already one of the richest people in the world, having made his fortune in the no-rules early phase of the crypto industry, when he...
Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his fellow progressives and socialists at City Hall, who often promise to change our politics and improve society, should...