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Republican Independence From Trump Is an Illusion

Republican Independence From Trump Is an Illusion

Last week there was a lot of excited talk about Republicans beginning to liberate themselves from the complete servitude to Donald Trump that they...

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Ed Kilgore

The Eric Adams Crypto Scandal Is Getting Messier

The Eric Adams Crypto Scandal Is Getting Messier

On Monday morning, Eric Adams held a press conference near Times Square, ditching his much-used “NYC Mayor” baseball cap for one that read...

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Matt Stieb

Did AI Alter the Course of This Baby’s Life?

Did AI Alter the Course of This Baby’s Life?

Probing American health care. The first nine days of Jorie Kraus’s life followed a pattern: problem, solution. Problem, solution. Problem: Jorie was...

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Melissa Dahl

Why Newsom Really Wants to Kill California’s ‘Billionaire Tax’

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Ed Kilgore

Trump’s Job-Approval Ratings Are Plummeting

yesterday 10

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Ed Kilgore

Trump Can Invoke Insurrection Act, But It’s a Terrible Idea

Trump Can Invoke Insurrection Act, But It’s a Terrible Idea

Eight days after an ICE agent shot and killed Renée Good in Minneapolis, and the day after another ICE agent shot and injured a protester in the...

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Ed Kilgore

Kyrsten Sinema Accused of Having Affair With Ex-Bodyguard

Kyrsten Sinema Accused of Having Affair With Ex-Bodyguard

Former U.S. senator and current cryptocurrency lobbyist Kyrsten Sinema has been accused of having a relationship with her bodyguard while she was...

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Matt Stieb

Trump Repackages Random Ideas Into ‘Great Healthcare Plan’

For many years, dating all the way back to 2015, Donald Trump has promised he’d someday offer a health-care plan to replace Obamacare. For months...

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Ed Kilgore

Trump Remark on Midterms Shows How Nervous He Is About Them

Trump Remark on Midterms Shows How Nervous He Is About Them

Last January, Donald Trump entered his second term with the support of a Republican congressional majority that stood ready to help him enact his...

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Nia Prater

‘The Only Way Out…Is Killing’

‘The Only Way Out…Is Killing’

There have been major uprisings in Iran before, most notably in 2009, 2019–2020, and 2022. But the scale of the protests that have engulfed the...

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Benjamin Hart

Polls Show Trump on Thin Ice With Interventionist Threats

Polls Show Trump on Thin Ice With Interventionist Threats

There’s always a shortage of public polls after the holidays, so it has been difficult to get a quick read on how people are reacting to Donald...

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Ed Kilgore

Trump Can Invoke the Insurrection Act, But It’s a Terrible Idea

Trump Can Invoke the Insurrection Act, But It’s a Terrible Idea

Eight days after an ICE agent shot and killed Renée Good in Minneapolis, and the day after another ICE agent shot and injured a protester in the...

previous day 6

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Ed Kilgore

‘The Only Way Out … Is Killing’

‘The Only Way Out … Is Killing’

There have been major uprisings in Iran before, most notably in 2009, 2019–2020, and 2022. But the scale of the protests that have engulfed the...

previous day 10

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Benjamin Hart

Apple Didn’t Have an AI Strategy. So It’s Buying One From Google.

Apple Didn’t Have an AI Strategy. So It’s Buying One From Google.

Apple’s approach to AI since the release of ChatGPT has been confused and confusing. Its first idea was to rerelease Siri, only this time with some...

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John Herrman

How Apple Is Buying an AI Strategy From Google

How Apple Is Buying an AI Strategy From Google

Apple’s approach to AI since the release of ChatGPT has been confused and confusing. Its first idea was to rerelease Siri, only this time with some...

previous day 5

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John Herrman

Trump Gets Nobel Peace Prize in Saddest Way Possible

Trump Gets Nobel Peace Prize in Saddest Way Possible

When Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize in October, she immediately dedicated the award to Donald Trump....

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Margaret Hartmann

GOP May Squeeze in Second Big Beautiful Bill Before Midterms

GOP May Squeeze in Second Big Beautiful Bill Before Midterms

At the moment, the betting in Washington is that Republicans and Democrats will manage to achieve just enough agreement on must-pass spending...

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Ed Kilgore

Trump Is Making ‘Abolish ICE’ a Mainstream Position

Trump Is Making ‘Abolish ICE’ a Mainstream Position

The legacy of “Defund the Police” will always be fraught for the Democratic Party. A rallying cry among activists and a smattering of politicians...

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Ross Barkan

White House Calls Trump Flip Off an ‘Appropriate’ Response

White House Calls Trump Flip Off an ‘Appropriate’ Response

While vulgarity is central to Donald Trump’s political identity, it’s actually rare to hear him drop an F-bomb. He’ll pretend to fellate a...

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Margaret Hartmann

Elissa Slotkin Says She’s Under Federal Investigation, Too

Elissa Slotkin Says She’s Under Federal Investigation, Too

Elissa Slotkin, a Michigan senator, has revealed that she is currently under investigation by federal prosecutors, the latest instance of the Trump...

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Nia Prater

States Are Jostling for 2028 Presidential-Primary Spots

States Are Jostling for 2028 Presidential-Primary Spots

The first 2028 presidential primaries are just two years away. And for the first time since 2016, both parties are expected to have serious...

wednesday 10

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Ed Kilgore

Trump FBI’s Search of Reporter’s Home Alarms Journalists

Trump FBI’s Search of Reporter’s Home Alarms Journalists

Journalists and press-freedom advocates condemned the extraordinary federal search of a Washington Post reporter’s home stemming from allegations...

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Nia Prater

How Claude Reset the AI Race

How Claude Reset the AI Race

Over the holidays, some strange signals started emanating from the pulsating, energetic blob of X users who set the agenda in AI. OpenAI co-founder...

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John Herrman

The Takeover of Kirk Country

The Takeover of Kirk Country

This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. Six weeks after the assassination of Turning Point USA founder...

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Simon Van Zuylen-Wood

Democrats’ Odds of Taking the Senate Just Went Up

Democrats’ Odds of Taking the Senate Just Went Up

Going into the 2026 midterm election cycle, the conventional wisdom was that Democrats had no serious shot at gaining back control of the U.S....

13.01.2026 2

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Ed Kilgore

How Many People Have Been Killed in Iran’s Brutal Protest Crackdown?

How Many People Have Been Killed in Iran’s Brutal Protest Crackdown?

A savage crackdown is underway in Iran following mass demonstrations against the Iranian regime. The ongoing wave of protests began on December 28,...

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Chas Danner

Trump Forgot All About Those $2,000 Tariff Checks He Promised

Trump Forgot All About Those $2,000 Tariff Checks He Promised

Over the years, hundreds of people — from contractors to waiters to lawyers — have accused Donald Trump of promising to pay them, then refusing to...

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Margaret Hartmann

Trump Forgot All About The $2,000 Tariff Checks He Promised

Trump Forgot All About The $2,000 Tariff Checks He Promised

Over the years, hundreds of people — from contractors to waiters to lawyers — have accused Donald Trump of promising to pay them, then refusing to...

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Margaret Hartmann

Trump Wants to Make ‘Disrespect’ Grounds for ICE Violence

Trump Wants to Make ‘Disrespect’ Grounds for ICE Violence

Six days after ICE agent Jonathan Ross fired three bullets into the head of Renee Good on a residential street in Minneapolis, Donald Trump’s...

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Ed Kilgore

Trump and Mamdani Are Secretly Texting Up a Storm

Trump and Mamdani Are Secretly Texting Up a Storm

People were expecting fireworks when Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani met in the Oval Office in November. Instead, they saw the two New Yorkers...

13.01.2026 10

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Nia Prater

Why the FBI’s Minneapolis ICE Shooting Investigation Is Hopelessly Compromised

Why the FBI’s Minneapolis ICE Shooting Investigation Is Hopelessly Compromised

A decade and change ago, the Justice Department delivered news that most Democrats and liberals desperately wanted not to hear: Officer Darren...

13.01.2026 10

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Elie Honig

Why the FBI’s ICE Shooting Probe Is Hopelessly Compromised

Why the FBI’s ICE Shooting Probe Is Hopelessly Compromised

A decade and change ago, the Justice Department delivered news that most Democrats and liberals desperately wanted not to hear: Officer Darren...

13.01.2026 6

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Elie Honig

Did Eric Adams Just Tank His Crypto?

Did Eric Adams Just Tank His Crypto?

It did not take long for former mayor Eric Adams to dive deeper into a specific post-government-duty pet project. Just days after his return to the...

13.01.2026 6

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Matt Stieb

Mamdani Blasts ICE Arrest of City Council Employee

Mamdani Blasts ICE Arrest of City Council Employee

A City Council employee was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers during a scheduled check-in on Long Island on Monday,...

13.01.2026 7

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Nia Prater

How Veganism Got Cooked

How Veganism Got Cooked

The plan had been to meet the vegan chef and cookbook author Isa Chandra Moskowitz at one of her old haunts for dinner, but the problem was none of...

13.01.2026 2

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Rachel Sugar

A Majority of Young Voters Now Reject Both Parties

A Majority of Young Voters Now Reject Both Parties

The U.S. political system is currently experiencing previously unimaginable levels of partisan and ideological polarization. And at the same time,...

12.01.2026 20

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Ed Kilgore

Eric Adams Finally Has His Own Cryptocurrency

Eric Adams Finally Has His Own Cryptocurrency

It did not take long for former mayor Eric Adams to dive deeper into a specific post-government-duty pet project. Just days after his return to the...

12.01.2026 10

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Matt Stieb

The Most Notable Reactions to the Jerome Powell Inquiry

The Most Notable Reactions to the Jerome Powell Inquiry

On Sunday, the New York Times reported that federal prosecutors had opened an investigation into Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell, a...

12.01.2026 4

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Nia Prater