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Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, the first edition that will not be read by former President Jimmy Carter. RIP to the Iron Man of...
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, which does not know whether the government will be open or shut down when you read this newsletter. It...
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Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, which regrets to inform you that our drone-based aerial marketing campaign has gone horribly awry....
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Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, a newsletter that turned down an offer to run the Department of Defense because we still wanted to go...
Tweet Share Share Comment Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Defense Department, has spent his week crisscrossing Senate...
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Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, which President-elect Donald Trump has just nominated to run the Department of Newsletters! [Five...
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Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, Slate’s politics newsletter and market tip sheet. What’re we buying shares of this week? Tetanus....
Tweet Share Share Comment South Dakota Sen. John Thune was elected Senate Republican leader on Wednesday, replacing Mitch McConnell in the role...
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Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, which welcomes Mr. Trump to his rightful place on the throne! Ha ha ha, very good, sir! (Disclaimer:...
Tweet Share Share Comment COVID took Donald Trump out of the White House—then, four years later, COVID put him back in. Shocks from the pandemic...
Tweet Share Share Comment Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election in a broad shift to the right across the country. He’s on track to...
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Welcome to this week’s edition of the Spooky Halloween Surge. If the election were a “Halloween character,” who would it be? The guy from...
Tweet Share Share Comment On Monday, with 15 days to go until Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris toured the three most pivotal swing states...
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, a politics newsletter diligently prepping confident explanations for how we perfectly predicted every...
Tweet Share Share Comment Six years and several political lifetimes ago, Democrats across the country were under the spell of Betomania. A young...
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, your favorite media product. You know how they used to say that Seinfeld was a show about nothing?...
Tweet Share Share Comment Two weeks ago, Hurricane Helene made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane in the Big Bend region of Florida. From there it...
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, coming to you one month—one awful, dreadful, endless month—before Election Day. Remember that the...
Tweet Share Share Comment If the 2024 vice presidential debate goes down as the last general-election presidential debate ever, it’s not a bad...
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, a newsletter that J.D. Vance (allegedly) described in a private chat as “the world’s greatest media...
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Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, a newsletter that has never had an intimate texting relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. We don’t...
Tweet Share Share Comment One certainty after popular former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan announced his Senate candidacy was that a poll would come...
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, which continues to not be paid at all by the Russian government. (Nudge, nudge, Russian government …)...
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, coming to you live from a Trump campaign music-video shoot in Arlington National Cemetery. We’re just...
Tweet Share Share Comment With Democrats having decided on a presidential nominee and the conventions now out of the way, the next big date on the...