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Tweet Share Share Comment Nominating Fox News personality Pete Hegseth to be secretary of defense was, from the start, one of the least serious...
Tweet Share Share Comment It has come to our attention that President-elect Donald Trump has announced that he will be nominating Kash Patel, a...
Tweet Share Share Comment Presidential transition season in Washington has a customary rhythm. About 20 people get nominated for Cabinet positions...
Tweet Share Share Comment What a week it’s been! But hey, we made it through. Time to crack a cold one, put up our feet, and browse the New York...
Tweet Share Share Comment One of the more delightfully dumb and blessedly low-impact storylines of the first Donald Trump administration involved a...
Tweet Share Share Comment Since we wrote last week that Donald Trump seems to have homed in on “having been on TV” as the main qualification...
Tweet Share Share Comment One of the concerns that Democrats and other observers have raised about a potential second Trump administration is that...
Tweet Share Share Comment The recrimination game among Democrats and pundits is on in a big way, and a major theme is the idea that the party has...
Tweet Share Share Comment Not too long ago, things did not look that great for J.D. Vance. He’d decided to run as a Republican for U.S. Senate in...
Tweet Share Share Comment Welcome to How Good Is This, Really? —renamed from the original How Bad Is This, Really? —a recurring feature in...
Tweet Share Share Comment Slate takes final stock of just how Not Normal this election was. Joe Biden’s exit from the presidential race over the...
Tweet Share Share Comment In the final few days of a campaign, candidates try to project a “closing message” that they believe will win over...
Tweet Share Share Comment Almost exactly two years ago, the New York Times’ Cooking section printed a delightful piece of politics...
Tweet Share Share Comment On Tuesday, the New York Times and the Atlantic each published stories about Donald Trump’s history of denigrating...
Tweet Share Share Comment Welcome to How Good Is This, Really? —renamed from the original How Bad Is This, Really? —a recurring feature in...
Tweet Share Share Comment Why is Kamala Harris doing worse with Black and Latino voters than previous Democratic presidential candidates? That’s...
Tweet Share Share Comment At an Oct. 5 rally in Pennsylvania, Donald Trump told a seemingly apocryphal story about a decades-old women’s...
Tweet Share Share Comment About a month ago, polling guru Nate Silver wrote a (paywalled) piece for his Substack called “This Was Trump’s Election...
Tweet Share Share Comment Welcome to How Good Is This, Really? —renamed from the original How Bad Is This, Really? —a recurring feature in...
Tweet Share Share Comment Kamala Harris is holding steady at a 3-point national lead in polling averages—enough to make her the favorite to win...
Tweet Share Share Comment For most of Tuesday’s debate in New York City, Republican Ohio Sen. and vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance did well...
Tweet Share Share Comment Kamala Harris, by most available measures, has run a successful campaign so far. Since she became the presumptive...
Tweet Share Share Comment Welcome to How Good Is This, Really? —renamed from the original How Bad Is This, Really? —a recurring feature in...
Tweet Share Share Comment Since I started writing about J.D. Vance in 2022, I’ve repeatedly noticed his use of a certain rhetorical technique that...
Tweet Share Share Comment Welcome to How Good Is This, Really? —renamed from the original How Bad Is This, Really? —a recurring feature in...
Hello and welcome back to the Surge, Slate’s weekly roundup of the newsmaking-est figures in U.S. politics! I’m Ben Mathis-Lilley, filling in for...
Tweet Share Share Comment Kamala Harris isn’t in terrible shape right now, but her supporters don’t have to look too far to find reasons to panic,...
Tweet Share Share Comment On Friday, Donald Trump accepted Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s endorsement and appeared with the independent candidate at a...
Tweet Share Share Comment It’s been quite a ride for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the presidential race—filled with memories, shirtlessness, a...
Tweet Share Share Comment All day Thursday, rumors swirled online (and apparently in person in Chicago) that someone big was going to make a...
Tweet Share Share Comment You could argue—and many have—that American football is a fundamentally conservative activity. It’s the most...
Tweet Share Share Comment Welcome to How Good Is This, Really? —recently renamed from the original How Bad Is This, Really? —a recurring...
Tweet Share Share Comment Last Thursday, standing on a tarmac in Michigan in front of Air Force Two, Kamala Harris took some questions from...
Tweet Share Share Comment Since he was nominated for the vice presidency, Republican Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance has been in the news for his history of...
Tweet Share Share Comment There’s a lot of regret inside the Republican Party right now about the selection of Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance as its vice...
Tweet Share Share Comment Kamala Harris has one job: Persuading currently undecided, indifferent, or loosely Trump-attached voters in Arizona,...
Tweet Share Share Comment Welcome to How Bad Is This, Really? —or maybe this time we should call it How Good Is This, Really? —a recurring...
Tweet Share Share Comment Very slowly and then all at once, Joe Biden got out of the presidential race. In a Sunday afternoon statement and...
Tweet Share Share Comment Heading into the weekend, there seem to be few remaining obstacles to Joe Biden stepping down from the Democratic ticket....
Tweet Share Share Comment Looks like it’s all over but the shouting. The question is, how much shouting is there going to be? As Politico...
Tweet Share Share Comment Something strange is going on in Poll World. Simply put, FiveThirtyEight’s model gives Joe Biden a much better chance...
Tweet Share Share Comment On Saturday, what was already one of the more unusual presidential elections in U.S. history took another turn. A Donald...
Tweet Share Share Comment The Republican National Convention gets underway on Monday, and heading in, the buzziest Republican “veepstakes”...
Tweet Share Share Comment Welcome to How Bad Is This, Really? , a recurring feature in which we take the temperature of how things are looking in...