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Trump Caught Giving Himself AI-Generated Makeover

Donald Trump just turned 80 years old, he has a terrible diet, he doesn’t believe in exercise, and he has an extremely stressful job known for...

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Margaret Hartmann

Habibi City

It first hit me in February 2025. I was in North Brooklyn, where I had taken my older daughter to a bookmaking workshop for kids at Storm Books &...

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Zaina Arafat

Can Anywhere Be a Sanctuary City?

In June, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the Trump administration could end the temporary protected status program for Haitians, it was clear that...

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Matt Stieb

Can Reddit Survive the AI Boom?

For years now, Reddit has inhabited a strange and unique position on the internet. As the largest collection of forums left on the web, the...

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John Herrman

The GOP’s Missing Moral Compass

Max Miller is unrepentant. The Republican congressman from Ohio demands that we believe him, not his ex-wife Emily Moreno. He did not throw boiling...

07.08.2026 1

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Sarah Jones

Marine One’s Near-Miss Incident Was Scarier Than It Looks

In the midafternoon of Tuesday, August 4, an air traffic controller in the tower of Reagan National Airport was surprised to find that he had an...

07.08.2026 2

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Jeff Wise

The Strange Business of Selling People Their Own Family’s Lost Photos

Listen, I know my scams. I’ve written about them, done TV stories about them, lived through them. But last spring, my sister got an email pitch that...

07.08.2026 2

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David Pogue

Will Gianni Infantino Finally Be Sent Off?

No matter how eventful your summer has been, it can’t possibly compare to FIFA President Gianni Infantino’s. Over the past month, soccer’s arch...

07.08.2026 2

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Adam Elder

Munitions Shortage Has Trump Up in Arms Against Hegseth and ‘Leakers’

As the United States’ war in Iran continues into its sixth month amid fitful peace talks, President Donald Trump is forcefully denying reports that...

06.08.2026 4

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Nia Prater

Trump Thinks This Year’s ‘No. 1’ Movie Was … Melania?

Movies are so back. 2026 has been Hollywood’s best year at the box office since the pandemic. And it’s all thanks to the Trumps! No, not because...

06.08.2026 2

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Margaret Hartmann

‘Capitalist’ Democrats Fear Socialist Wave May Sink Midterms

With less than 90 days to go until the midterm elections, prominent Democrats are warning that socialists running under the party’s banner will...

06.08.2026 3

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Errol Louis

‘If I Leave, Who Is Going to Rescue People?’

In April, 18 hours through a trauma shift, I received a text from my father in our family group chat. My cousin had been injured, he said. “Pray for...

06.08.2026 1

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Mary Turfah

El-Sayed Pulls It Off. Now Comes the Hard Part.

Abdul El-Sayed, a public-health official who lost in a primary landslide when he ran for governor of Michigan eight years ago, eked out a victory over...

05.08.2026 3

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David Freedlander

El-Sayed on Brink of Breakthrough Win

By the time the votes were to be tallied Tuesday night, it was widely assumed, mostly because of some iffy polling, that former public-health official...

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Ed Kilgore

Trump Needs to Choose How to Lose the Iran War

President Donald Trump called off his threatened escalation of the Iran war over the weekend, saying a deal was imminent to end the war, reopen the...

05.08.2026 3

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Jonah Shepp

Trump Pal Ronald Lauder Is Cutting Off the GOP

Billionaire Ronald Lauder has spent decades writing checks to Republicans, giving some $40 million to the party in the last ten years alone, including...

04.08.2026 1

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Bess Levin

Trump Is Making Another Big Mess With the White House Helipad

Of all of President Donald Trump’s often haphazard changes to the nation’s capital and the White House, the creation of a helipad at the...

04.08.2026 4

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Nia Prater

Darline Graham Is Running Away From Lindsey’s Legacy

All things being equal, Darline Graham Nordone should have the opportunity to develop her own record and persona, both in her service as interim U.S....

04.08.2026 2

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Ed Kilgore

Trump’s Arch Will Photobomb Every View of D.C.

One good thing about Donald Trump’s many projects celebrating himself is that they’re often pretty easy to avoid. Don’t want to think about the...

04.08.2026 6

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Margaret Hartmann

Trump Is a War Hero (But Only in His Memes)

The parent company of Truth Social just launched Truth API, a service that provides a “direct, licensed, real-time feed of the platform’s most...

04.08.2026 7

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Margaret Hartmann

Michigan and Missouri Put the Progressive Surge to the Test

On August 4, both parties will hold primaries in five states: Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Virginia, and Washington. While there are many contests of...

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Ed Kilgore

Anthony Fauci Can Take the Fifth

Four years ago, some Democrats mocked Donald Trump when he took the Fifth and they claimed his invocation was as good as an admission of guilt. The...

04.08.2026 7

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Elie Honig

The Mysterious Case of the JetBlue Flight That Went Into Free Fall

To celebrate their second anniversary together, 22-year-old Terrica Turner and her boyfriend, Tyrese Banks, took a trip to Cancún. They flew from...

03.08.2026 8

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Jeff Wise

Just How Badly Did Democrats Lose the Redistricting Wars?

Last year, the Trump administration bulldozed yet another political norm when the president, encouraged by key advisers, pushed Texas to redistrict...

03.08.2026 6

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Benjamin Hart

The GOP’s Big Red Scare Is Really Stupid

It’s a strategic truism in politics that if you can’t seize the political “center,” where a lot of unaffiliated voters live, you try to push...

02.08.2026 10

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Ed Kilgore

Trump Administration Admits Reflecting Pool Wasn’t Attacked by Canoeist

In what appears to have been a classic midsummer Friday-night news dump, the Trump administration acknowledged that the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting...

01.08.2026 10

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Chas Danner

Truth Social’s Cash Grab Will Not Save Trump’s Business

Logging on to Truth Social still isn’t a very dynamic user experience; users are mostly getting AI memes, Fox News clips, and posts from Republicans...

01.08.2026 9

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Matt Stieb

Trump Reaping Whirlwind From His Senate Purges

Ninety-five days from the midterm elections, Donald Trump is struggling with Congress over his agenda. Not so much with Democrats, who have very...

31.07.2026 10

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Ed Kilgore

Scott Galloway: I Got ‘Doxed’ by Mamdani

July marked the official start of the pied-à-terre tax, an annual surcharge levied against secondary luxury homes in the city. It was signed into law...

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Economist’s Zanny Minton Beddoes Is ‘Bemused’ by Elon Musk’s Post-Interview Jabs

A few months ago, The Economist editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes ran into Elon Musk at an event in California and asked if he’d appear on The...

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Michael Calderone

Why Is It So Hard to Ban Child Marriage?

On July 1, law enforcement in Vinton County, Ohio, made a horrifying discovery. Four adults were keeping 16 children confined to a single...

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Sarah Jones

Todd Blanche’s Nomination Is Actually In Serious Trouble Now

Todd Blanche’s nomination to become the next U.S. attorney general appears to be in peril. First, a key committee postponed its scheduled Thursday...

30.07.2026 9

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Nia Prater

AI Industry to World: ‘Somebody Stop Us’

More than 1,200 employees at AI firms, including top executives at OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google, have signed on to a statement calling for an...

30.07.2026 10

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John Herrman

Democrats Need a Better Answer on Voter ID. Here’s One.

Donald Trump’s incessant crusade for the immediate enactment of the SAVE America Act is very likely to fail — thanks to a Senate Democratic...

30.07.2026 20

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Ed Kilgore

Everyone Hates FIFA’s Plan to Let Jared Kushner’s Brother Run the World Cup

After FIFA’s decision earlier this month to delay a one-game red-card suspension for U.S. player Folarin Balogun — which followed a phone call...

29.07.2026 10

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Bess Levin

Ken Paxton Could Be the GOP’s Graham Platner

It’s always been a bit of a reach for Democrats to contemplate winning control of the U.S. Senate in 2026, given a landscape heavily tilted to the...

29.07.2026 10

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Ed Kilgore

Anthony Fauci Finally Turns Down an Interview Request

Dr. Anthony Fauci’s highly anticipated Capitol Hill clash with Kentucky Senator Rand Paul took an unexpected turn early Wednesday morning when the...

29.07.2026 9

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Nia Prater

Here’s Who Might Actually Win Lindsey Graham’s Seat

On the same day the late Lindsey Graham was memorialized in Washington at the Capitol and the National Cathedral, the filing period for the August 11...

29.07.2026 10

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Ed Kilgore

Trump’s Payback Against Jack Smith Is Off to a Bad Start

Whatever one might think of Jack Smith’s performance as a prosecutor — I’ve got criticisms, and reasonable minds can differ — the guy is no...

29.07.2026 10

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Elie Honig

What Is It Like to Be a Cucumber?

One day when Michael Levin was a boy in Moscow, he didn’t want to eat his vegetables. “You need to eat your cucumber because it’s going to be...

29.07.2026 10

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Elizabeth Weil

Case Against Olympian Looks As Murky As Reflecting Pool

The federal government’s highly publicized renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool fell short of Donald Trump’s lofty visions as...

28.07.2026 9

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Nia Prater

Democrats Poised to Overreact to Michigan and Wisconsin Primaries

With the August 4 primaries in Michigan and Wisconsin fast approaching, the next week is going to be very exciting for an awful lot of political...

28.07.2026 10

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Ed Kilgore

Mamdani Is Making Those City-Owned Grocery Stores Sound Pretty Good

Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced new details about his administration’s plan to open municipal grocery stores in each of the city’s boroughs,...

28.07.2026 10

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Nia Prater

Trump Has Only Humiliating Options Left in Iran

The Iran war, which has followed a start-stop rhythm since the U.S. and Israel launched attacks in February, is once again on pause. In part because...

28.07.2026 10

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Benjamin Hart

The OpenAI Hack Scrambles the AI Race

Earlier this month, the popular AI platform Hugging Face disclosed a “security incident” in a blog post. In some ways, it was routine; Hugging...

28.07.2026 10

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John Herrman

Will Trump Make January 3 Another January 6?

Knowing what we know now about Donald Trump’s willingness to interfere with adverse election results on January 6, 2021, the run-up to the 2026...

27.07.2026 10

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Ed Kilgore

Feast Your Eyes on a Brand-New Photo of Mitch McConnell

Senator Mitch McConnell has been absent from Congress for more than a month as he recovers from what he says was a fall. This week, the former Senate...

27.07.2026 20

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Nia Prater

Mamdani and Netanyahu Are in a Vicious War of Words

Tensions between Zohran Mamdani and Benjamin Netanyahu have deepened after the Israeli prime minister fired back at the mayor’s video accusing him...

27.07.2026 10

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Nia Prater

The Billionaire Blowing the Whistle on Donald Trump’s Crypto Shop

Justin Sun was already one of the richest people in the world, having made his fortune in the no-rules early phase of the crypto industry, when he...

27.07.2026 20

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Jen Wieczner

It’s Time to End the Test That’s Grotesquely Segregating NYC Schools

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his fellow progressives and socialists at City Hall, who often promise to change our politics and improve society, should...

26.07.2026 10

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Errol Louis