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What’s stopping you from celebrating America’s 250th birthday by loading your whole family in the car and road-tripping across this great nation?...
In a decision that caps a disastrous ten days for Democrats struggling to offset Republican congressional gerrymanders, a 4-3 majority of the Virginia...
When James Comey appears in federal court in North Carolina on Monday, it’ll mostly be about housekeeping. The parties will set schedules for...
The prediction-market industry has a lot of reasons to be optimistic right now. It’s growing extremely quickly, multiplying many times in size since...
It says a lot about our current president that in response to the news that a giant gold statue of Donald Trump was dedicated this week, you have to...
Spirit Airlines, the ultra-low-cost flyer that shut down operations last weekend, was often the butt of jokes. As a frequent Spirit flyer, this meant...
In an effort to smooth relations with Pope Leo XIV and Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni, the Trump administration is sending its best. Not...
An outbreak of the rare and dangerous hantavirus aboard the Dutch-flagged cruise ship MV Hondius has left three passengers dead, forced the medical...
When Donald Trump furiously ordered his minions to find and fund primary challenges to seven Indiana Republican state senators who refused to conduct...
On the heels of FBI director Kash Patel filing a $250 million defamation suit against the Atlantic, MS NOW reported Wednesday that his agency is now...
It has been more than nine weeks since President Trump started his war with Iran, and somehow he’s still keeping everyone guessing — about whether...
The recent gutting of the 1965 Voting Rights Act by the Supreme Court’s conservative majority will injure American democracy in ways that go far...
It was early spring 2024, and at an overlit food court in an Atlantic City casino called Resorts, a group of poker dealers was holed up at a table...
At this moment in his second term, it’s very difficult to find bright spots for Donald Trump — other than the perpetual loyalty of his MAGA base...
A white male New York Times employee filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging the paper had discriminated against...
This has to be the year, doesn’t it? The last time the Knicks made the NBA Finals was 1999, when their current star point guard was two years old...
Every generation has it tough, but some are more burdened than others. Consider the millions of newly minted college graduates entering a labor market...
A year ago, Zohran Mamdani may have been on the pavement outside Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Bushwick. The Brooklyn neighborhood, which ICE has...
Rudy Giuliani has been hospitalized and is in critical but stable condition. His spokesman, Ted Goodman, announced the news in a social-media post on...
President Donald Trump continues to insist the Iran war is essentially over after an April cease-fire agreement, but his order for the United States...
Harvey Weinstein?” the court-information officer repeated blankly when I asked for directions one morning — as if to say, “Are you sure?”...
In a blockbuster announcement last week, the United Arab Emirates announced that it would leave the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries...
The most important thing to know about the 12th Congressional District of New York is that it should not exist. Since time immemorial, Manhattan was...
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Louisiana v. Callais, much attention has been paid to its impact on the midterms and...
I should get this out of the way: I have no good reason to believe that Temu, the popular discount shopping app, is selling human meat disguised as...
On a Thursday in April, I headed to the north end of Yale’s campus and persuaded a passing fellow student to swipe me into a building. Fourteen...
Despite President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that his widely unpopular military misadventure in the Middle East is going great and ahead of...
The MAGA movement remains a dangerous force in American life, but it has never been weaker. Nobody embodies this dark impotence quite like Defense...
Welcome to the new age of insider trading. It’s not only for the Gordon Gekko–type Wall Street barons anymore; now it’s for the Jason Bournes,...
The only time that wine importer Victor O. Schwartz was in the same room with Donald Trump was during a lunch in the 1990s at Jean-Georges, the...
On Thursday morning, Maine Governor Janet Mills announced that she would suspend her struggling senate campaign. Mills’s decision was not a...
The written record of Arthur Zey’s decision to have a baby is extensive. For years, Arthur has measured and catalogued nearly everything about his...
After months of anticipation, the Supreme Court finally handed down its decision in the voting-rights case Louisiana v. Callais on Wednesday. In a 6-3...
In its six-to-three Louisiana v. Callais decision on Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority significantly weakened the Voting...
It was a strange Tuesday for Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Before nightfall, he could claim at least one notable victory: an agreement with the City Council...
For the past few years, it seemed as if everyone on X was making fun of Bill Ackman. Mostly this was because the billionaire investor was on X too...
Last March, a fog took hold in my head and never left. It settled there somewhere between the moment a DHS agent asked me, “Are you Mahmoud...
Last week, Virginia voters narrowly passed a state constitutional amendment allowing Democratic legislators to rewrite the congressional maps, which...
For a week in January, a website called Moltbook drove the internet insane. Maybe you noticed. A Reddit clone designed for use by AI agents, Moltbook...
An annual Washington, D.C., tradition was upended Saturday when a man identified as Cole Tomas Allen rushed a security checkpoint at the White House...
King Charles III’s state visit to the United States this week is awkward right down to its core. The visit celebrates the 250th anniversary of...
In the grand scheme of MAGA implosions, Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s forced resignation barely registers. She isn’t infamous like Kristi Noem or Pam...
During the last days of USAID, one Trump appointee told longtime agency official Nicholas Enrich that to sway skeptical overseers about the dangers of...
It was a little after 8:30 PM and I had just sat down at Café Milano, the white-tablecloth Georgetown watering hole loved and hated by both sides of...
Never for a moment did I think I was in danger when shots rang out at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner, although nearly every person...
Last summer, my skin began to itch. I did not have a rash, or an insect bite, which meant the cause remained a mystery and lotion didn’t help me for...
Melania Trump is, theoretically, an open book. She’s been in the public eye since she began dating Donald Trump in the late ‘90s, she released a...
Everyone in tech is worried about layoffs. Since the beginning of the year, Block (formerly Square) cut its workforce nearly in half, Oracle began...
President Trump was rushed off stage at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday night after a gunman attacked a Secret...
Football fans and team executives alike descended on Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania this week for the start of the NFL draft, one of the most highly...