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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...
Tweet Share Share Comment Since winning the presidential election two weeks ago, President-elect Donald Trump has nominated a...
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...
Tweet Share Share Comment Having taken the presidency last week in convincing fashion and having long possessed House...
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...
Tweet Share Share Comment Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election in a broad shift to the right across the country....
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, the newsletter world’s floating island of garbage—but a floating island of garbage that fights for...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Welcome to this weekend’s edition of the Surge, coming to you live from an airplane out of Chicago where the air conditioning only half works....
Tweet Share Share Comment It’s hard to describe the mood of Chicago’s United Center in the build-up to Vice President Kamala...
Tweet Share Share Comment Every four years, Democrats meet for a convention and relearn that Michelle and Barack Obama are their...
Tweet Share Share Comment About 20 minutes before President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 election, Teresa Saavedra Woorman,...
Tweet Share Share Comment As Democrats gather for their national convention in Chicago this week, all of the party’s leading...
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, the only politics newsletter that has a worse spice tolerance than Tim Walz and can’t even make it to...
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, the frozen bear meat of the American political icebox. This week, Democrats filled out their...
Tweet Share Share Comment Vice President Kamala Harris selected Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to be her running mate on Tuesday...
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, which has used “weird” as its only adjective to describe all politicians for years now, and should...
Tweet Share Share Comment It has been nearly five years since we last knew what Vice President Kamala Harris thinks. But we...
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, which wants to begin with a quick reminder that you have until 6 p.m. on Tuesday to get 300 delegate...
Tweet Share Share Comment President Joe Biden delivered a brief, 10-minute address from the Oval Office Wednesday night...
Tweet Share Share Comment Republicans did not fall out of a coconut tree, and they had their talking points ready by the time...
Tweet Share Share Comment Twenty-seven minutes after President Joe Biden withdrew from the presidential race, he announced that...
Tweet Share Share Comment Eight years ago in Cleveland, I was on the floor of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland...
Tweet Share Share Comment On Monday night, former President Donald Trump emerged at the Republican National Convention in...
Tweet Share Share Comment The 2024 Republican National Convention is a happy place. That’s unusual. In recent cycles, whether...
Tweet Share Share Comment The Republican National Convention was set to be pretty straightforward this year. Donald Trump had...
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, a politics newsletter that has learned the hard way never to ask for a slow presidential election to...
Tweet Share Share Comment “Oookey dokey,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer opened his weekly press conference on...
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, the only politics newsletter that would CRUSH either Joe Biden or Donald Trump on the golf course and...
Tweet Share Share Comment Almost exactly five years ago to this day, following the first Democratic presidential primary debate...
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Tweet Share Share Comment What message do you think Donald Trump would like to broadcast about President Joe Biden ahead of the...