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Pretty Much Every Poll Is Good for Democrats Now

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...

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Nia Prater

Supreme Court Voter-Roll Order Won’t Affect Midterms, But Look Out in 2028

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....

yesterday 0

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Ed Kilgore

Mark Zuckerberg Brushes Off Meta ‘Pervert Glasses’ Uproar

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...

yesterday 3

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Bess Levin

Rise of the Red-State Democrats

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...

yesterday 1

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Ed Kilgore

The Democrats’ Mad Scramble to Get AI Right

Just before his paternity leave last fall, Representative Greg Casar of Texas was given some light reading — less Goodnight Moon, more “good-bye,...

yesterday 4

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Matt Stieb

Hasan Piker May Not Matter As Much As Republicans Want

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...

previous day 3

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Ed Kilgore

The AI Assistant Wars Are Coming

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....

previous day 4

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John Herrman

The New Book Democrats Hate — and Can’t Stop Talking About

Whenever Democratic political operatives gather to drink these days, they talk about three things: their chances in the midterms, who will be the...

previous day 5

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David Freedlander

Trump’s Shoddy Ballroom Design Is the Real National Security Threat

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...

wednesday 10

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Margaret Hartmann

The First Amendment Doesn’t Care If Trump Gets Bad Press

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...

wednesday 8

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Elie Honig

This Is Francis Fukuyama’s Last Book

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...

wednesday 6

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Krithika Varagur

KFile Is (Still) a Politician’s Worst Nightmare

Last October, CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski uncovered deleted Reddit posts that showed former Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner discussing his...

wednesday 5

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Charlotte Klein

Trump TV Is Finally Here, and No One Is Watching

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...

22.09.2026 5

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Margaret Hartmann

Wave or No Wave: Two Paths for the Midterms

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...

22.09.2026 10

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Ed Kilgore

The City Council Speaker Who Bested Anna Wintour

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,...

22.09.2026 5

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Emma Rosenblum

John Fetterman’s Party of One

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...

22.09.2026 6

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Nate Weisberg

Trump Reveals Arch Is Fully Armed and Operational Battle Station

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...

21.09.2026 7

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Margaret Hartmann

Big Crypto Is Trying to Block Democrats’ Senate Dreams

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...

21.09.2026 10

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Ed Kilgore

Press Finally Shows Some Solidarity After Trump White House Ban

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...

21.09.2026 6

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Michael Calderone

The New World Order Is Here

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...

21.09.2026 7

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Jonah Shepp

The Long Shadow of Biden’s Gaza Fiasco

The 2024 election season was particularly tumultuous in Michigan, Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed recalled on Friday. In his home state, more than...

21.09.2026 6

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Michael Calderone

Woke Was Never the Problem

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...

20.09.2026 9

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Sarah Jones

The Chatbots Are Pivoting to Video

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...

20.09.2026 6

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John Herrman

Trump Is Still Living Every Week Like It’s Shark Week

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...

18.09.2026 10

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Margaret Hartmann

California’s Landmark Wealth Tax May Be Running Out of Steam

For years, progressives have longed to supplement progressive income taxes with wealth taxes that reach the vast inherited, invested, or even hidden...

18.09.2026 10

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Ed Kilgore

Don’t Tune Out Trump’s Midterms Sabotage

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...

18.09.2026 10

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Errol Louis

The ‘Political Disaster’ Looming for Democrats on AI

By now, the string of alarming recent headlines blur together: an Anthropic engineer who quit out of fear that his company was downplaying the...

18.09.2026 10

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Benjamin Hart

Imagine Trying to Convince Trump That AI Is a Serious Threat

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...

17.09.2026 10

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Bess Levin

What We Learned From the 2026 Primaries

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...

17.09.2026 20

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Ed Kilgore

Republicans Reject Trump’s ‘All About Me’ Midterms Strategy

For those Republican candidates still confused about their pitch to midterms voters, Donald Trump offered some specific instructions at last week’s...

17.09.2026 30

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Ed Kilgore

How Much Pat McAfee Is Too Much?

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...

17.09.2026 10

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Adam Elder

Trump’s AI Cheerleading Put His Party in an Impossible Place

Congressional Republicans are rapidly running out of time to do anything that might preserve their control of Congress. Indeed, early midterms voting...

16.09.2026 10

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Ed Kilgore

Trump to Put MAGA Trigger Warnings Outside Smithsonian

Too many Americans are having their vacations ruined when they stumble into the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and are confronted...

16.09.2026 10

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Margaret Hartmann

Gerrymandering May Not Have Done Republicans Much Good After All

Republicans undoubtedly prevailed in the gerrymandering arms race touched off when President Trump ordered Texas to redraw its congressional maps in...

16.09.2026 30

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Ed Kilgore

Why the AI Apocalypse Won’t Play Out Like The Terminator

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...

16.09.2026 20

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Matt Stieb

Mitch McConnell Is Alive and (Sort of) Well

Mitch McConnell was hospitalized on June 14. Over the next three months, the Kentucky senator was barely seen or heard, aside from two awkward...

15.09.2026 10

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Margaret Hartmann

60 Minutes’s Big Premiere Saw Ratings Dive

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 —...

15.09.2026 10

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Chas Danner

Why the Supreme Court Slapped Down Trump’s Mail-in Ballot Rules

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...

15.09.2026 10

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Elie Honig

The Women Fighting for Fewer Rights

A decade into the Trump era, gender has become one of the most prominent and confounding stories in American politics. The conventional wisdom...

15.09.2026 10

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Sarah Jones

How Nick Shirley Became Republicans’ Favorite Poster

This July, a video appeared on the influencer Nick Shirley’s YouTube channel with Dr. Mehmet Oz outlining a supposed “Billion Dollar Fraud...

15.09.2026 10

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Eamon Whalen

Bettina and Don Jr. Bravely Defend Their Oligarch-Funded Wedding

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...

14.09.2026 10

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Margaret Hartmann

Republicans Are Losing Trump’s 2024 Gains With Texas Latinos

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...

14.09.2026 10

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Ed Kilgore

Why Everyone’s Talking About the AI Apocalypse

Last week, Anthropic employee and former OpenAI researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from his job. “Neither company is acting responsibly. They are...

14.09.2026 10

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John Herrman

Donald Trump Couldn’t Do It Alone

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,...

14.09.2026 10

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Michael Calderone

Ben Shelton Is Just Beginning

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...

13.09.2026 10

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Owen Lewis

A Queasy Appreciation of Alexander Zverev

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...

12.09.2026 10

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Caira Conner

J.D. Vance Previews Republicans’ Nasty Midterm Smears

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...

11.09.2026 10

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Ed Kilgore

A Look Back at 25 Years of New York’s Coverage of 9/11

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...

11.09.2026 10

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Intelligencer Staff

It Took a Nation to Break Pierre Damas Bel

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...

11.09.2026 10

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Zak Cheney-Rice

The Psychology Behind Trump’s Plan to Give Everyone $5,000

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...

10.09.2026 20

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Ed Kilgore