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Elon Musk’s Third Party Is Pure Fantasy

Weeks after Elon Musk had a major falling-out with Donald Trump, the genesis of this rupture between the former DOGE chief and the president of the...

thursday 3

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Ed Kilgore

Jeffries Delays MAGA Megabill With Marathon Speech

House Republicans worked through the night on Wednesday to consolidate support from wary members for the party’s massive and controversial megabill...

thursday 9

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Nia Prater

Trump Turned ‘Lewinsky Room’ Into Oval Office Gift Shop

From Mark Zuckerberg wandering into a meeting about the military’s new F-47 stealth-fighter jet to Vice-President J.D. Vance perpetually loitering...

thursday 3

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Margaret Hartmann

Bill Ackman Dumps Cuomo, Embraces Adams

Days after getting officially crushed by Zohran Mamdani in the Democratic mayoral primary, Andrew Cuomo is reportedly still weighing his options for...

thursday 3

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Nia Prater

Your Lost Suitcase Is Probably in Alabama

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

thursday 7

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Wells Tower

Poll Shows Public Knows Little About Trump’s Ugly Megabill

When top House Democrat Hakeem Jeffries chose to exploit a loophole in the House rules, which allows party leaders to talk as long as they want, to...

thursday 2

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Ed Kilgore

No President Has Ever Had Something Like Trump’s Megabill

In an event that consummates the reversal of national fortune that began when voters narrowly chose to return Donald Trump to the White House,...

thursday 4

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Ed Kilgore

Theme of America’s 250th Birthday Bash Is (Probably) Trump

If, like me, you are a bit too young to remember the 1976 Bicentennial, you probably haven’t spent much time worrying about the awkwardly named...

thursday 2

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Margaret Hartmann

Theme of America’s 250th Birthday Bash Is (Probably) Donald Trump

If, like me, you are a bit too young to remember the 1976 Bicentennial, you probably haven’t spent much time worrying about the awkwardly named...

thursday 2

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Margaret Hartmann

Jeffries Delays MAGA Megabill With Record-Breaking Speech

House Republicans worked through the night on Wednesday to consolidate support from wary members for the party’s massive and controversial megabill...

thursday 2

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Nia Prater

Trump Betrayed His Base With the Big Beautiful Bill, and the GOP Will Regret It

Donald Trump got what he wanted out of Congress; it’s possible, in the coming years, that he is going to deeply reject it. This isn’t because Trump...

thursday 2

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Ross Barkan

There’s No Plan B If Republicans Sink Trump’s Megabill

When the Senate passed its version of Donald Trump’s giant budget-reconciliation package on Tuesday, the idea was to jam the House with it: force a...

02.07.2025 10

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Ed Kilgore

Trump Demands House Rubber-Stamp Senate’s (Not So) ‘Beautiful Bill’

When Donald Trump’s giant budget-reconciliation bill cleared the House on May 22 without a single vote to spare, there were abundant warnings that...

02.07.2025 2

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Ed Kilgore

The Black Americans Gentrifying Ghana

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. On January 20, Christa...

02.07.2025 9

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Kéchi Nne Nomu

Trump Demands House Rubber-Stamp (Not So) ‘Beautiful Bill’

When Donald Trump’s giant budget-reconciliation bill cleared the House on May 22 without a single vote to spare, there were abundant warnings that...

02.07.2025 1

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Ed Kilgore

Mark Zuckerberg Is Convinced He Can Buy the Future

After ChatGPT drew millions of users to the first mature, widely available LLM-based chatbot, the race was on to build better, bigger, and more...

02.07.2025 1

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John Herrman

How the Prosecution Blew Its Case Against Diddy

Sean “Diddy” Combs has been convicted of two federal felonies, but for all practical purposes, he has won. Regular readers of this column won’t be...

02.07.2025 2

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Elie Honig

Can Zohran Mamdani Buy the NYPD’s Support?

Hours after a grand jury declined to indict the police officer who killed Eric Garner, Bill de Blasio, the visibly shaken new mayor, wanted to...

02.07.2025 1

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Ross Barkan

How I Fixed My Fear of Flying — By Embracing Something Worse

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Days before I’m...

01.07.2025 4

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Allison P. Davis

Lisa Murkowski Holds the Big Beautiful Bill in Her Hands

Though it remains hard to imagine that a Republican-controlled Congress will deny Donald Trump much of anything he wants at this point, the...

01.07.2025 1

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Ed Kilgore

Do Democrats Need or Want a Centrist ‘Project 2029’?

One of the more interesting phenomena of the 2024 campaign cycle was the sudden unsavory notoriety of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, a...

01.07.2025 6

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Ed Kilgore

Senate Passes Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill As Vance Breaks Tie

After an all-night session mostly consumed with voting down Democratic amendments, the U.S. Senate passed Donald Trump’s budget-reconciliation...

01.07.2025 1

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Ed Kilgore

Senate Approves Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill by the Smallest Margin Possible

After an all-night session mostly consumed with voting down Democratic amendments, the U.S. Senate passed Donald Trump’s budget-reconciliation...

01.07.2025 5

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Ed Kilgore

Official Results Show Mamdani Crushed Cuomo

On Tuesday, the city’s Board of Elections released the final results of the ranked-choice mayoral primary, showing Zohran Mamdani trouncing Andrew...

01.07.2025 1

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Nia Prater

Trump Praises Adams, Threatens to Arrest Mamdani

On Tuesday, Zohran Mamdani’s victory over Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary for New York mayor became official, setting up the party’s nominee...

01.07.2025 2

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Nia Prater

The Radical Past and Future of Christian Zionism

Days before the Trump administration bombed three nuclear sites in Iran, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas tried to defend his unblinking support of Israel...

01.07.2025 3

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Sarah Jones

Have ‘Best of’ Lists Made Travel More Bland?

Some of the most influential hospitality rankings in the world are produced in a homely office park in Crawley, an exurb of London. There amid the...

01.07.2025 3

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Ben Ryder Howe

Is Iran Trying to Kill Trump Again?

On Sunday, a top Shia religious leader in Iran issued a fatwa against anyone who threatens Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, following multiple...

30.06.2025 10

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Chas Danner

Republicans Are Quietly Strangling the Filibuster for Trump

In the background of the Senate Republican struggle to give Donald Trump his One Big Beautiful Bill, something historic is going on, aside from the...

30.06.2025 6

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Ed Kilgore

Can the GOP Pass the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Without Tillis?

As the drama over Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful bill approaches its climax this week, there’s been lots of complaining among House and Senate...

30.06.2025 5

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Ed Kilgore

Zohran Mamdani’s ‘Coalition of the In-Between’

This past Tuesday, Zohran Mamdani accomplished what few predicted was possible: a decisive defeat of Andrew Cuomo, the veteran politician backed by...

30.06.2025 5

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Nia Prater

Trump Threatens NYC Federal Funding If Mamdani Doesn’t ‘Behave’

President Donald Trump waded into the results of the city’s Democratic mayoral primary just one day after the polls closed, calling the presumptive...

30.06.2025 6

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Nia Prater

Kyoto Has Zero Zen

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. This is painful,”...

30.06.2025 20

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Reeves Wiedeman

Are You Ready to Watch TikTok on TV?

One funny thing about the streaming wars is that, for nearly as long as they’ve been happening, TV viewing in general — the ritual of sitting on a...

30.06.2025 2

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John Herrman

Elon Musk Is Not Done Fighting With Trump

When we last left Donald Trump and Elon Musk, it seemed their epic, public falling-out had come to an end. On June 11, the former DOGE chief shared...

30.06.2025 20

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Margaret Hartmann

MAGA’s Civil War Isn’t Over

As a leftist in the Trump era, I have often sheepishly envied the unanimity of the MAGA movement. While Democrats (rightly!) wail about spineless,...

29.06.2025 20

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Sam Adler-Bell

Zohran Mamdani on Why He Won

The sheer magnitude of Zohran Mamdani’s victory as the Democratic nominee for mayor was still sinking in for him a day and a half later. “We won...

29.06.2025 20

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David Freedlander

Why Politics Is So Insanely Complicated in 2025

Every major news story in the past week had one thing in common: none of it was remotely simple or easy to explain. The basic facts surrounding the...

29.06.2025 10

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Ed Kilgore