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Trump’s Governor Endorsement Kills GOP’s California Dream

An endorsement from Donald Trump is usually an enormous gift to any Republican candidate. But the 47th president’s “COMPLETE AND TOTAL...

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Ed Kilgore

Trump’s Wildest Iran Remarks From the Easter Egg Roll

Why is this Easter Egg Roll different from all other Easter Egg Rolls? Sorry, wrong holiday — but this was a White House Easter celebration unlike...

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Margaret Hartmann

The Revenge Plot

In January 2025, as Donald Trump prepared to retake office, the federal prosecutors handling the January 6 trials carried on with the grinding work of...

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Andrew Rice

What the U.S. Got So Badly Wrong About Iran

After the U.S. rescued an airman who had been shot down above Iran over the weekend, President Trump threatened to commit war crimes against the...

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Benjamin Hart

Wall Street’s Eyes on the Strait

“It’s the most bearish outcome,” says James van Geelen. “I’m losing my mind.” Citrini Research’s founder — recently famous for causing...

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Jen Wieczner

Noem. Bondi. Who’s Next?

For the better part of a year, President Donald Trump largely avoided the seemingly endless revolving door of staff firings, resignations, and...

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Nia Prater

Voters Who Dislike Both Parties Are Turning Against Trump

Republicans concerned about Donald Trump’s chronically underwater job-approval ratings have sometimes reassured themselves by pointing at...

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Ed Kilgore

U.S. F-15 Shot Down Over Iran, One Crewmember Rescued

An American F-15E fighter jet was shot down over southern Iran on Friday, and one of the two crewmembers has reportedly been rescued. The condition of...

03.04.2026 3

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Chas Danner, Benjamin Hart, And Matt Stieb

What Happens When Mamdani Stops Being Polite?

On a bright Sunday afternoon at the end of March, at least 2,000 people packed the Lehman Center for the Performing Arts in the Bronx to hear Bernie...

03.04.2026 4

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Ross Barkan

Judge Jeanine’s Big Audition

When Jeanine Pirro took over as United States Attorney for the District of Columbia in May of last year, she was surprised to learn that her workspace...

03.04.2026 6

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Ben Terris

Trump Fired Bondi for Doing Bad Things Poorly

Being the chief law-enforcement officer for a president who believes he defines the law and is given imperial powers by the Constitution is hard work....

02.04.2026 8

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Ed Kilgore

Pam Bondi’s Many, Many, Many Failures

Sometimes if both sides are angry at you, you’re doing something right. Other times, everyone simply agrees that you’re awful — as Pam Bondi has...

02.04.2026 1

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Elie Honig

Johnson Caves on DHS, But Shutdown Deal Could Unravel Again

Last week, the Senate unanimously passed a bill to reopen the Department of Homeland Security except for its immigration-related functions. House...

02.04.2026 3

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Ed Kilgore

Trump Ousts Pam Bondi as Attorney General

Weeks after dismissing Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem, President Trump has reportedly fired Attorney General Pam Bondi, according to...

02.04.2026 3

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Nia Prater

AI’s Bad Reputation Gives Democrats a Golden Opportunity

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s message is unambiguous: AI cash must be gone from politics. “Politicians — especially Dems — should pledge not to...

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Ross Barkan

“I Would Rather My Child Be in School.”

On February 24, as snow blanketed city sidewalks for the second day in a row, mayor Zohran Mamdani’s seemingly unflappable charm offensive met its...

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Audrey goodson kingo

How to Ignore a War

On Wednesday night, President Trump told Americans — once more — that the war in Iran has (almost) been won. The month-old conflict has been a...

02.04.2026 4

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Zak Cheney-Rice

In Husband’s Photo Scandal, No One Feels Bad for Kristi Noem

Kristi Noem has a remarkable knack for alienating people. While serving as South Dakota governor, she was banned from 15 percent of her own state....

01.04.2026 4

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Margaret Hartmann

Trump Got a Front-Row Seat to Supreme Court Skepticism

A majority of the justices of the Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed ready to reject the Trump administration’s attempt to strip up to 200,000 people...

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Irin Carmon

Baseball’s Latest Innovation: A Fun New Way to Mock Umpires

“If they create a robot umpire that calls every strike exactly right,” the late, very entertaining baseball umpire Ron Luciano once said,...

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Will Leitch

Searching for Steve Jobs

“Never ask what I would do,” said Steve Jobs on his deathbed. “Just do the right thing.” Interesting quote, right? Here’s Jobs, whose...

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David Pogue

Pete Hegseth Finally Got His Holy War

There’s no mystery to Pete Hegseth. The secretary of Defense prefers tight-fitting suits and pocket squares with the American flag on them. He bears...

01.04.2026 5

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Sarah Jones

Highs and Lows of Trump’s AI-Slop Presidential Library

We’ve just gotten our first look at the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library, and it’s a gigantic, gaudy, self-aggrandizing monument to the 45th...

31.03.2026 4

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Margaret Hartmann

NASA’s Manned Mission to Moon Faces Safety Fears

Some time during the first week of April, a 322-foot NASA rocket is scheduled to blast off from the Kennedy Space Center and soar deep into outer...

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Jeff Wise

Is Trump Walking Out on His War?

For weeks, President Trump has been issuing bellicose threats to Iran over its de facto blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. Reopening the strait and...

31.03.2026 5

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Chas Danner, Benjamin Hart, And Matt Stieb

The Pet Owners Taking Their Injured Dogs to Tijuana

At 6:30 a.m. on a recent Friday morning, Emma found herself speeding south toward the Mexican border from Los Angeles, her recently adopted rescue...

31.03.2026 5

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Helaine Olen

It Will Be a Scandal If Mamdani Can’t Pay EMS Workers Better

Many of the challenges Zohran Mamdani has encountered in his first 100 days as mayor — like ending street homelessness, halting the deterioration of...

31.03.2026 9

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Errol Louis

Why Trump’s Quest to Gut Birthright Citizenship Is Doomed

If a person is subject to the jurisdiction of both the United States and Mexico, are they subject to the jurisdiction of the United States? The answer...

31.03.2026 4

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Elie Honig

DHS Is Still Shut Down Because Extremists Own Mike Johnson

The closure of the Department of Homeland Security has now become the longest partial government shutdown in U.S. history, at 45 days and counting. It...

30.03.2026 10

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Ed Kilgore

Trump’s Propaganda Machine Is Flailing on Iran

Watch enough Pentagon press conferences and a running theme emerges: Pete Hegseth whining about media coverage of the war in Iran. “You’re either...

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Ross Barkan

Slow-Walking Back Into an AIDS Nightmare

If I stopped taking the medication that suppresses my HIV, at first I’d feel fine. But over the next few months, my viral load would rise. In the...

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Tim Murphy

All of the Iran Attack Plans Are Bad. This One Is the Worst.

President Trump keeps signaling that the Iran war he started with Israel is nowhere close to completion, despite his repeated assurances otherwise —...

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Benjamin Hart

Will Trump Order an Invasion of Iran?

While diplomatic discussions appear to be underway between the U.S. and Iran, as of now there is still no end in sight for the Iran war. It’s also...

29.03.2026 9

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Chas Danner, Benjamin Hart, And Matt Stieb

Democrats Could Win a Majority of Governorships In 2026

The political world is, understandably, focused on 2026 Senate and House races. The question of whether the Republican Party will maintain its...

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Ed Kilgore

Who Will Trump Blame for the Iran War?

Though President Donald Trump continues to insist that the war with Iran is a spectacular success, four weeks after the U.S. and Israel attacked, the...

28.03.2026 9

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Chas Danner, Benjamin Hart, And Matt Stieb

Trump’s Delusional Victory Lap

As travelers languished in hours-long security lines at more than a dozen U.S. airports this week, President Trump boarded Air Force One headed for...

28.03.2026 6

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Zak Cheney-Rice

There’s a DHS Shutdown Deal, But the Crisis Isn’t Over Yet

In the middle of Thursday night, in a near-empty Senate chamber, an end to the most perplexing conflict of the second Donald Trump term finally came...

27.03.2026 10

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Ed Kilgore

‘Look, Mommy Was in Vogue’

On paper, the couple seemed perfect, ticking all the boxes for their wedding to be featured in Vogue: career, family history, luxury photographer and...

27.03.2026 10

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Charlotte Klein

Why Is Pam Bondi Ducking Epstein Questions?

This is the most transparent Justice Department in the history of the United States and maybe all of human existence. Just ask them. When pressed in...

27.03.2026 20

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Elie Honig

Airports Won’t Snap Back to Normal When the Shutdown Ends

The Department of Homeland Security has been shuttered for more than a month as congressional lawmakers remain at an impasse over funding for the...

27.03.2026 5

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Nia Prater

Social Media Companies Are Suddenly Getting Killed in Court

On Tuesday, a New Mexico jury found that Meta had violated state law, misleading users about safety measures and engaging in “unconscionable”...

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John Herrman

Mamdani’s New Democratic Adversary

Last week, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced he was taking the first step toward delivering on a vital campaign promise: establishing a new way for the...

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Ross Barkan

Why AI Companies Want to Take Control of Your Computer

In 2024, Anthropic tested out a feature called “computer use,” a tool that could “try to manipulate a computer desktop environment,” clicking...

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John Herrman

The Fake Cartier and the Fake Rockefeller

When Andrea Bartzen moved to New York in the late 1990s, it may have looked like she was living out a season of HBO’s then-new Sex and the City. She...

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Jen Wieczner

Does Either Party Really Want to End the DHS Shutdown?

The Department of Homeland Security shutdown will reach its 40th day tomorrow, and it seems this partisan dispute over immigration enforcement cannot...

25.03.2026 9

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Ed Kilgore

Another Good Sign for Dems: Flipping Mar-a-Lago

Seven years after officially decamping to his Palm Beach estate from New York, President Donald Trump will be represented by a Democrat in the Florida...

25.03.2026 10

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Nia Prater

If Illinois Wins March Madness, I’ll Go Streaking

I love college basketball more than I should, and spend a disturbingly large percentage of my life watching it. And as we head into the second weekend...

25.03.2026 10

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Will Leitch

The True Religion of Reality Television

Last week, the internet watched Taylor Frankie Paul throw barstools at her ex-boyfriend while another reality-star scandal received far less...

25.03.2026 10

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Sarah Jones

The People Getting Falsely Accused of Using AI to Write

When Jared Hewitt’s co-worker claimed last winter that Hewitt used AI to write an incident report, she did it publicly. “And I work at a day care,...

25.03.2026 10

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Emma alpern

Trump’s Brutalization of Cuba Is Both Cruel and Pointless

Amid the chaos and bloodshed of Donald Trump’s military excursions into Iran and Venezuela, it’s easy to overlook the needless misery America is...

24.03.2026 9

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Ross Barkan