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Andrew Cuomo Faces a Hard Road

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Ross Barkan

What Is Israel’s Endgame in Attacking Iran?

What Is Israel’s Endgame in Attacking Iran?

On Friday, Israel made good on decades of threats to take military action to destroy Iran’s nuclear program, which its leaders have long viewed as...

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Jonah Shepp

What’s Israel’s Real Endgame With Attacking Iran?

What’s Israel’s Real Endgame With Attacking Iran?

On Friday, Israel made good on decades of threats to take military action to destroy Iran’s nuclear program, which its leaders have long viewed as...

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Jonah Shepp

Minnesota Lawmakers Shot in Targeted Attack: Live Updates

Minnesota Lawmakers Shot in Targeted Attack: Live Updates

Two Minnesota lawmakers were shot, and one was killed, in what Governor Tim Walz said “appears to be a politically motivated assassination.” State...

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Intelligencer Staff

The Right Is Renewing Its Fight Against Same-Sex Marriage

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Ed Kilgore

Suspect ID’d in Attack on Minnesota Lawmakers: Live Updates

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DC Prepares for Trump’s Parade Amid Protests: Live Updates

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Trump Got to See So Many Tanks for His Birthday

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Trump’s Job Approval Depends on Which Pollsters You Believe

Trump’s Job Approval Depends on Which Pollsters You Believe

The conventional wisdom is that Donald Trump’s level of popularity has improved quite a bit recently after a downward lurch in his approval ratings...

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Ed Kilgore

The Highly Political Prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia

The Highly Political Prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia

There is nothing at all remarkable about the Justice Department’s indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, on its face. If not for the politically...

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Elie Honig

Trump’s Assault on California Is Faltering

Trump’s Assault on California Is Faltering

As the sun dawned on the West Coast on June 12, the Trump administration’s assault on California looked unstoppable, if not necessarily legal. Even...

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Ed Kilgore

Pete Hegseth Is Playing Secretary

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. On Dan Caldwell’s 87th...

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Kerry Howley

E. Jean Carroll Has Written a Secret Book — And Learned to Shoot

E. Jean Carroll Has Written a Secret Book — And Learned to Shoot

I think it’s a handsome-looking gun, don’t you?” E. Jean Carroll asked. We were perched against the glass counter of a gun shop just off a...

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Jessica Bennett

8 Ways to Think About Israel’s Attack on Iran and What Comes Next

8 Ways to Think About Israel’s Attack on Iran and What Comes Next

Israel on Friday launched a massive new attack on Iran, conducting unprecedented air strikes against the Iranian regime’s top military leaders,...

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Chas Danner

The Ugly Policies Hidden in Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill

The Ugly Policies Hidden in Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill

When Congress considers packages of legislation as epic in size as President Trump’s budget reconciliation bill, perceptions of the whole are...

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Ed Kilgore

Trump Loves Les Misérables, Can’t Say What It’s About

Trump Loves Les Misérables, Can’t Say What It’s About

Donald Trump loves musicals, and Les Misérables is a particular favorite. He caused a stir when he attended the Broadway production with Marla...

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Margaret Hartmann

With Mamdani Surging, Cuomo Plays the Trump Card

With Mamdani Surging, Cuomo Plays the Trump Card

The unrest in Los Angeles is coming to New York. Or at least coming to the city’s mayoral race. With televisions and social media showing a slice of...

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David Freedlander

How the Protest Movement Lost Social Media

How the Protest Movement Lost Social Media

Since the early 2010s, social media has been identified with protesters. In the early days of platforms like Twitter, this was intuitive. Protest...

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John Herrman

Trump’s Political Brand Is Chaos

Trump’s Political Brand Is Chaos

A decade ago, when he still believed he had a political future, Jeb Bush aimed an insult at the new and unlikely candidate for president that he...

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Ross Barkan

The Spectacular Age of Sincaraz Has Arrived

The Spectacular Age of Sincaraz Has Arrived

Over the last 20 or so years, tennis fans have been spoiled with at least a dozen marathon Grand Slam finals that qualify for the sport’s pantheon....

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Jake Nevins

Sherrill, Ciattarelli Win Primaries for New Jersey Governor

Sherrill, Ciattarelli Win Primaries for New Jersey Governor

There was a bit of mystery going into the June 10 New Jersey primaries. It was the first gubernatorial election without an incumbent in eight...

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Ed Kilgore

Trump Wants to Make U.S. Armed Forces His Partisan Militia

Trump Wants to Make U.S. Armed Forces His Partisan Militia

In many respects, the speech — or more accurately, the ever-winding “Weave” — that Donald Trump delivered in North Carolina on Tuesday was...

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Ed Kilgore

Trump Is Making Gavin Newsom Leader of the Opposition

In the second Trump administration, Democrats have had trouble finding a focal point for their opposition to the 47th president’s riotous agenda....

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Ed Kilgore

All the Juicy Gossip From the Michelle Obama Podcast

All the Juicy Gossip From the Michelle Obama Podcast

Everyone who tuned in to Michelle Obama’s new podcast to hear her talk about those Barack Obama divorce rumors or perhaps make thinly veiled digs...

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Margaret Hartmann

After All That, Donald Trump & Elon Musk Are Friends Again?

After All That, Donald Trump & Elon Musk Are Friends Again?

You might think that if you very publicly imply that your friend is a pedophile and urge people to band together to oust him from his position of...

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Margaret Hartmann

After All That, Donald Trump and Elon Musk Are Friends Again?

After All That, Donald Trump and Elon Musk Are Friends Again?

You might think that if you very publicly imply that your friend is a pedophile and urge people to band together to oust him from his position of...

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Margaret Hartmann

Brad Lander’s Gowanus Victory Lap

Brad Lander’s Gowanus Victory Lap

Brad Lander, the New York City comptroller and mayoral candidate, is sweating through a June heat wave on a Gowanus street corner, gesturing at two...

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Kim Velsey

The Misguided Attempt to End College Sports’s Wild West Era

The Misguided Attempt to End College Sports’s Wild West Era

A certain strain of thought around college sports goes something like this: While it may be corrupted by big money these days, there was a time — a...

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Will Leitch

Ramaswamy’s Comparison of Newsom to George Wallace Is Ludicrous

Ramaswamy’s Comparison of Newsom to George Wallace Is Ludicrous

The last time tech bro turned politician Vivek Ramaswamy waded into American political history, he was touting Richard Nixon as the inspiration for...

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Ed Kilgore