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Trump’s Most Unhinged Policy May Be Starving MAGA Arkansas of Disaster Relief

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Ross Barkan

Judge Dugan’s Arrest Has Nothing to Do With Public Safety

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Cristian Farias

Trump’s Attack on Harvard Is a False Flag

Of the ten bullet-pointed demands in the Trump administration’s imperious letter to Harvard University, this one rises to Vonnegutian heights: “The...

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Elie Honig

Trump Wants to Execute People Again — Starting With Luigi Mangione

It wasn’t a shock when U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced this month that the federal government would seek the death penalty for the most...

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Madeline Leung Coleman

Trump Wants to Execute People Again — Starting With Luigi

It wasn’t a shock when U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced this month that the federal government would seek the death penalty for the most...

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Madeline Leung Coleman

Trump Should Have Stuck With Border Security, Not Mass Deportations

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Ed Kilgore

Will DOGE Even Save More Than It Costs?

Now that DOGE has been allowed to rampage and burrow in throughout the federal bureaucracy for a few months, and in anticipation of its creator,...

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Ed Kilgore

What We Learned From Trump’s Secret-Filled Time Interview

After Time ran a cover Donald Trump didn’t like in early February, the president claimed he thought the magazine had folded, despite being named its...

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Margaret Hartmann

George Santos Cries As He’s Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison

George Santos was sentenced on Friday to more than seven years in prison in what is the culmination of one of the wildest political scandals in...

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Nia Prater

FBI Arrests Judge Hannah Dugan for Obstructing ICE: Updates

Federal authorities arrested Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan on Friday morning on felony obstruction charges for allegedly helping an...

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Intelligencer Staff

Polls Show Another Downward Lurch in Trump’s Approval Ratings

For a while there, it looked like Donald Trump’s job-approval ratings were stabilizing after a gradual slide beginning with his inauguration...

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Ed Kilgore

Vouchers Are ‘Education’s Version of Predatory Lending’

Last week, Texas Republicans advanced a measure that would create a massive new school voucher program. Should it become law, parents could use $1...

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Sarah Jones

How Trump Could Change Daylight Saving Time

Changing daylight saving time has obvious appeal for Donald Trump. Many people hate switching their clocks twice a year, so ending that practice...

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Margaret Hartmann

Trump’s Immigration Dragnet Is Already Nabbing U.S. Citizens

There has been concern that President Trump’s immigration crackdown would one day extend beyond undocumented immigrants to target U.S. citizens....

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Zak Cheney-Rice

Democrats Freak Out at Trump’s Order Targeting Their Fundraising

Mid–Wednesday afternoon, one of my Democratic campaign sources nervously texted me, “Are you hearing stuff on this ActBlue EO? Campaigns are...

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Daniel Strauss

Trump Slams Door on Higher Tax Rate for the Rich

Republicans have both an arithmetic and a messaging problem as they try to enact Donald Trump’s second-term agenda via a giant...

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Ed Kilgore

Trump Admin Mistakenly Shares Doomed Plan to Kill Congestion Pricing

Despite Donald Trump’s attempts to vanquish it, New York City’s congestion-pricing program has continued unabated, blowing past a mandated April 20...

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Nia Prater

Is Elon Musk Sinking Tesla or Keeping It Afloat?

Tesla’s first quarterly report of 2025 is its gloomiest since 2022, when the company was battling with COVID supply constraints and its CEO was...

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John Herrman

‘Education’s Version of Predatory Lending’

Last week, Texas Republicans advanced a measure that would create a massive new school voucher program. Should it become law, parents could use $1...

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Sarah Jones

Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Is Already Coming for U.S. Citizens

There has been concern that President Trump’s immigration crackdown would one day extend beyond undocumented immigrants to target U.S. citizens....

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Zak Cheney-Rice

The Obamas Aren’t Divorcing. Michelle Is Just Embracing ‘No.’

The idea that Michelle Obama skipped Donald Trump’s second inauguration because she was mad at the former president she’s married to — not the...

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Margaret Hartmann

There’s No Good Reason for U.S. to Avoid Vietnam Anniversary

One would think the Trump administration would want to draw attention to the terrible costs associated with America’s worst “forever war,” which...

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Ed Kilgore

Will Christianity Make a Turn to the Right Post-Francis?

In the recent Hollywood blockbuster movie Conclave , the College of Cardinals’ choice of a new pontiff represented a crucial moment when the Roman...

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Ed Kilgore

Ivanka Wishes Us ‘Peace’ While Flaunting Costa Rica Trip

On the night Donald Trump launched his 2024 presidential campaign, Ivanka Trump announced she was swearing off politics. (As a source later told...

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Margaret Hartmann

What Donald Trump Learned From George W. Bush

How extraordinary, in the context of American history, is Donald Trump? A decade into a political career that once seemed unfathomable, the answer...

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Ross Barkan

Polls Show Trump’s Approval Rating on Immigration Going South

Throughout the long legal fight over the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and other noncriminal residents of this country, Democrats have held...

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Ed Kilgore

Introducing Court Appearances: United States v. Diddy

On Monday, April 28, jury selection will begin in the federal trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs, who’s facing five counts of sex trafficking, forced...

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The Editors

The NFL Draft Is Actually Boring As Hell

People watch sports for all sorts of reasons. There’s the thrill of competition. The visceral, kinetic excitement of watching history unfold in...

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Will Leitch

DOGE May Not Need Elon Musk Anymore

This has been one of Washington’s favorite games lately: When will Elon leave? The planted axiom is that Elon Musk’s bizarre and wildly destructive...

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Ed Kilgore

Should Abrego Garcia Be Punished for Someone Else’s Crimes?

As the legal saga over Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s deportation to El Salvador continues in the courts, the political battle over the Trump...

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Ed Kilgore

The New Soros

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Alex Soros lives in the...

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Simon Van Zuylen-Wood

Will the Courts Save Trump From His Worst Excesses?

In public Republicans tend to echo Team Trump’s invective toward “radical Left activist” judges who dare to question the 47th president’s...

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Ed Kilgore

Is Pete Hegseth About to Get Fired? Live Updates

Pete Hegseth was barely able to get confirmed as Donald Trump’s Defense secretary, and following a series of scandals — including the revelation...

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Intelligencer Staff

Has Karma Come for Kristi Noem?

If we lived in a just world, our reality would look exponentially different. Beyoncé would’ve won 2023 Album of the Year, everyone would leave...

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Danya Issawi