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Polls Show Trump’s Miserable Ratings Are Dragging Down Republicans

Polls Show Trump’s Miserable Ratings Are Dragging Down Republicans

One of the major narratives that came out of the very poor showing of Republicans in the 2025 elections is that the GOP struggles to win when...

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Ed Kilgore

The 7 Big Questions Left for the Epstein Files

The 7 Big Questions Left for the Epstein Files

Last week, the House Oversight Committee released over 20,000 pages of documents from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein, the biggest wave of new...

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Matt Stieb

When Will the Epstein Files Be Released?

When Will the Epstein Files Be Released?

President Donald Trump has signed the bipartisan Epstein Files Transparency Act — though perhaps reluctantly — so, at least in theory, it is now...

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Chas Danner

Dick Cheney and the False Nostalgia for the Good Republicans

Dick Cheney and the False Nostalgia for the Good Republicans

In death, there are now two Dick Cheneys. One is the Cheney who was, without question, the most powerful vice-president in the history of the...

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Ross Barkan

A Bipartisan Idea for Congress: Fewer Stupid Censure Wars

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Ed Kilgore

Trump Shares Call to ‘Hang’ Democratic Lawmakers

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Margaret Hartmann

Treasury Secretary Hopes You Don’t Cash Trump’s $2,000 Checks

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Ed Kilgore

The Chuy Garcia Rebuke Shouldn’t Tear Democrats Apart

The Chuy Garcia Rebuke Shouldn’t Tear Democrats Apart

The fact that Democrats are more likely than Republicans to fight one another is sometimes described as a sign of vitality, particularly as...

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Ed Kilgore

The GOP’s Affordability Agenda: Promise to Give People Cash

The GOP’s Affordability Agenda: Promise to Give People Cash

You can’t say that Team Trump is in denial about the extent and the implications of the electoral rebuke its party received on November 4. All of a...

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Ed Kilgore

GOP Redistricting May Backfire Due to Team Trump’s Incompetence

GOP Redistricting May Backfire Due to Team Trump’s Incompetence

At some point earlier this year, Donald Trump took a look at his shaky political standing and decided two things. First, he really wanted to hold...

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Ed Kilgore

Larry Summers’s Epstein Fallout Is Getting Worse

Larry Summers’s Epstein Fallout Is Getting Worse

The House Oversight Committee’s release of a swath of new documents from the Jeffrey Epstein estate forced several prominent figures uncomfortably...

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Nia Prater

Trump Follows ‘Quiet, Piggy’ by Berating Another Female Reporter

Trump Follows ‘Quiet, Piggy’ by Berating Another Female Reporter

Between Republicans’ big election losses and the resurgence of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, it’s been a stressful month for Donald Trump. So the...

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Margaret Hartmann

MTG Is the Ultimate Test of Trump’s Strength

MTG Is the Ultimate Test of Trump’s Strength

The Republican political graveyard is littered with bodies that Donald Trump has gleefully buried. No politician in modern American history has...

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Ross Barkan

The Day Republicans Beat Trump

The Day Republicans Beat Trump

As Donald Trump steamrolled his agenda through Congress this year, there was usually just one Republican dissenter, Representative Thomas Massie of...

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Ben Jacobs

Marjorie Taylor Greene Is the Ultimate Test of Trump’s Strength

Marjorie Taylor Greene Is the Ultimate Test of Trump’s Strength

The Republican political graveyard is littered with bodies that Donald Trump has gleefully buried. No politician in modern American history has...

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Ross Barkan

House Votes Overwhelmingly to Release Epstein Files

House Votes Overwhelmingly to Release Epstein Files

The House of Representatives held its long-awaited vote on a measure to release the federal government’s files related to convicted sex offender...

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Intelligencer Staff

Why the NFL Is Bigger Than the Collapse of Its Sole Dynasty

Why the NFL Is Bigger Than the Collapse of Its Sole Dynasty

You’re never going to believe me when I say this, but I swear it is true: There was a time that Tom Brady, Bill Belichick and the New England...

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Will Leitch

The NFL Is More Powerful Than Ever. Look at the Collapse of Its Dynasty.

The NFL Is More Powerful Than Ever. Look at the Collapse of Its Dynasty.

You’re never going to believe me when I say this, but I swear it is true: There was a time that Tom Brady, Bill Belichick and the New England...

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Will Leitch

Trump Could Have the Last Laugh on the Epstein Files

Trump Could Have the Last Laugh on the Epstein Files

Donald Trump’s head-spinning about-face on legislation to force disclosure of the Epstein files by his own administration is leading a lot of...

tuesday 4

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Ed Kilgore

How Liberals Failed Education

How Liberals Failed Education

This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. Last winter, the federal government released the results of its...

tuesday 5

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Andrew Rice

How Public Education Failed in the Liberal Enclaves That Care About It Most

How Public Education Failed in the Liberal Enclaves That Care About It Most

This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. Last winter, the federal government released the results of its...

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Andrew Rice

What Are the Big Takeaways From the Epstein Emails?

What Are the Big Takeaways From the Epstein Emails?

More Epstein files may be on the way, but in the meantime, the reverberations of the House Oversight Committee’s data drop of more than 20,000 of...

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Chas Danner

7 Stupid Moments From Trump’s McDonald’s Summit Speech

7 Stupid Moments From Trump’s McDonald’s Summit Speech

Donald Trump and Bill Clinton have something in common. No, not that. The two presidents are both huge fans of McDonald’s. But while Clinton was...

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Margaret Hartmann

If Trump Wants the Epstein Files Released, Why Not Do It Himself?

If Trump Wants the Epstein Files Released, Why Not Do It Himself?

Donald Trump has never been a slave to consistency, but it’s hard to recall a more abrupt and puzzling about-face than the one he announced last...

17.11.2025 2

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Ed Kilgore

Trump Did Not Have Sexual Relations With ‘Bubba,’ Bill Clinton

Trump Did Not Have Sexual Relations With ‘Bubba,’ Bill Clinton

Last week, Congress released more than 2,300 emails Jeffrey Epstein sent and received between 2008 and 2019. The most substantial revelation, as...

17.11.2025 2

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Margaret Hartmann

Will Creepy Epstein Emails Be the End of Larry Summers?

Will Creepy Epstein Emails Be the End of Larry Summers?

Few of the many rich, powerful, and famous friends of Jeffrey Epstein have faced serious repercussions for their long and tangled connections to...

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Matt Stieb

The Legend of Zelda’s Main Characters Are Linking Up

The Legend of Zelda’s Main Characters Are Linking Up

Hyrule, here we come. On November 17, Nintendo visionary Shigeru Miyamoto shared the three first images of the upcoming The Legend of Zelda live-...

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Jennifer Zhan

The Message Trump Sends by Endorsing Tucker Carlson

The president of the United States had a busy weekend. When he wasn’t golfing at Mar-a-Lago, excommunicating Marjorie Taylor Greene from the MAGA...

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Ed Kilgore

Jeffrey Epstein, King of the Dweebs

Jeffrey Epstein, King of the Dweebs

When I am found dead in my cell after being arrested for sex crimes, please do not release my personal correspondence because that is the kind of...

17.11.2025 10

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Dan Brooks

The Global Internet Is Coming Apart

The early rise of the internet is usually told as an extension of globalization. New networking technology made instantaneous communication...

17.11.2025 1

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John Herrman

Trump Torches ‘Traitor’ MTG — But Georgia Might Burn Him

Trump Torches ‘Traitor’ MTG — But Georgia Might Burn Him

In a classic example of an intense relationship gone bad, the steadily unraveling bond between Donald Trump and his once close friend Marjorie...

17.11.2025 10

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Ed Kilgore

Trump Suggests He’s Open to Meeting Mamdani

Trump Suggests He’s Open to Meeting Mamdani

Throughout the mayoral race, President Donald Trump frequently voiced his strong opposition to Zohran Mamdani’s candidacy, threatening to withhold...

17.11.2025 10

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Nia Prater

A Theory of Dumb

A Theory of Dumb

This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. Experts were sure that the 20th century would make us stupid....

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Lane Brown