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With a little more than a month to go before the midterms, Donald Trump is in full campaign mode — crisscrossing the country in the hopes of...
People who rightly fear a last-minute Trump administration bid to skew the 2026 midterms may have had a moment of panic after seeing Friday’s U.S....
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta hasn’t given people much reason to trust it. That may have something to do with how the company’s early offering, The...
Just 40 days from the end of midterm-election voting, it’s beginning to look like a cycle in which all things are possible for Democrats. Not too...
Just before his paternity leave last fall, Representative Greg Casar of Texas was given some light reading — less Goodnight Moon, more “good-bye,...
To hear a lot of the chatter about the pivotal U.S. Senate race in Michigan this year, you’d think the election was more or less a referendum on...
Almost as soon as chatbots could carry on a coherent conversation, AI companies started imagining a world in which people use them to do everything....
Whenever Democratic political operatives gather to drink these days, they talk about three things: their chances in the midterms, who will be the...
When the White House ballroom was hit with a legal challenge in December, Donald Trump’s defense of his pet project shifted from “I need a place...
When it comes to the First Amendment, Vice-President J.D. Vance is either dumb or full of crap, and he’s not dumb. Even as right-wing media outlets...
Long before Francis Fukuyama was one of the world’s most famous political scientists, he was a New York City kid, living in a ninth-floor Stuyvesant...
Last October, CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski uncovered deleted Reddit posts that showed former Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner discussing his...
Months before the 2016 election, there was a lot of chatter about the possibility that Donald Trump’s whole presidential campaign was just a scheme...
Six weeks from the midterm elections (and a lot less than that from early voting, which is already underway in several states), experts and the...
Speaker Julie Menin of the New York City Council is leading me to a place in Central Park she says is very special to her. We’ve just left the Met,...
The GOP’s first-ever midterm convention needed a Democrat. The two-night production at the American Airlines Center in Dallas in early September was...
From the start, the proposed 250-foot arch near Arlington National Cemetery has seemed like a large yet pathetic tribute to Donald Trump’s ego. When...
The crypto lobby is going after the once and maybe future U.S. senator from Ohio Sherrod Brown with a tire iron, according to the New York Times: The...
When Donald Trump travels to New York on Monday ahead of a speech at United Nations General Assembly, he will not be accompanied by a television...
In her annual address in France last week, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen unveiled a proposal that would have been hard to imagine...
The 2024 election season was particularly tumultuous in Michigan, Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed recalled on Friday. In his home state, more than...
The American commentariat has lived inside a state of suspended animation for at least a decade. To them, it is 2014, 2016, or 2020 or somehow all...
For nearly as long as I can remember, I’ve been working on a bicycle. Sometimes I need to fix one. More often, I’m just tinkering, or taking on an...
There are a lot of things worrying everyday Americans right now, from the affordability crisis to climate change to the possibility that AI is going...
For years, progressives have longed to supplement progressive income taxes with wealth taxes that reach the vast inherited, invested, or even hidden...
With less than 50 days before the midterms, every one of America’s 39,000 full-time journalists should be using their voice and platform to report...
By now, the string of alarming recent headlines blur together: an Anthropic engineer who quit out of fear that his company was downplaying the...
A lot of people are scared shitless by the prospect of artificial intelligence at best taking a lot of people’s jobs and at worst wiping humanity...
Primary season came to an end this week when voters in Delaware headed to the polls on September 15. That same day, early in-person general-election...
For those Republican candidates still confused about their pitch to midterms voters, Donald Trump offered some specific instructions at last week’s...
On Saturday morning, ahead of the second college-football weekend of the new season, Pat McAfee was up to his old tricks behind ESPN’s College...
Congressional Republicans are rapidly running out of time to do anything that might preserve their control of Congress. Indeed, early midterms voting...
Too many Americans are having their vacations ruined when they stumble into the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and are confronted...
Republicans undoubtedly prevailed in the gerrymandering arms race touched off when President Trump ordered Texas to redraw its congressional maps in...
Nate Soares, co-author of the book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, said he “hasn’t slept in days.” Since the tech world’s most apocalyptic...
Mitch McConnell was hospitalized on June 14. Over the next three months, the Kentucky senator was barely seen or heard, aside from two awkward...
The season premiere of 60 Minutes, the first new episode since the show’s tumultuous gut renovation by Bari Weiss, kicked off on Sunday night —...
The Supreme Court quite sensibly decreed twenty years ago that we shouldn’t mess with voting processes too close to an election. The Justices have...
A decade into the Trump era, gender has become one of the most prominent and confounding stories in American politics. The conventional wisdom...
This July, a video appeared on the influencer Nick Shirley’s YouTube channel with Dr. Mehmet Oz outlining a supposed “Billion Dollar Fraud...
Donald Trump Jr. and his new wife, Bettina Trump, have weathered a lot in the two-ish years that they’ve been together. First there were the rumors...
When Donald Trump reclaimed the White House in 2024 and Republicans won a trifecta by flipping control of the Senate, one story seemed to capture the...
Last week, Anthropic employee and former OpenAI researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from his job. “Neither company is acting responsibly. They are...
Donald Trump was done on January 6. Republican lawmakers failed to overturn the 2024 election after the violence was quelled. Mike Pence did his job,...
It’s the little moments in tennis that kill you. Ben Shelton needed 34 minutes of his maiden U.S. Open final to win a single point against Alexander...
On a dreary June afternoon in 2022, the German tennis player Alexander “Sascha” Zverev was three hours and two sets deep into the French Open...
If you want a good idea of the Republican Party’s closing pitch to voters heading toward a 2026 election that doesn’t look good for them, Donald...
From our first issue in the overwhelming immediate aftermath to last week’s examination of the still-growing number of victims, New York has spent...
The death of Pierre Damas Bel last week bore the hallmarks of an American tragedy. He was a “joyful” 20-year-old, according to the pastor at his...
To understand Donald Trump’s epic (in length, not content) speech on the first night of the Midterm Republican Convention nobody but him wanted to...