Politics

'You can’t just talk about gas and groceries’: GOP grapples with housing affordability message

Republicans are struggling to find a winning message on housing costs — an issue that’s top of mind for Americans — heading into a midterm election season that both parties expect to be decided by ...

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Under Mike Johnson, a rarely used House tool has gone mainstream

Over the course of decades, House lawmakers had succeeded only a few times in triggering votes on bills the chamber’s leaders refused to call up.Then Mike Johnson became speaker.On the Louisiana Re...

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Georgia Republicans caught in a bind of Trump's making over health care costs

Republicans across the country are in a bind of President Donald Trump’s making: After voting to end the 43-day federal shutdown, they have yet to articulate a plan to tackle the upcoming spike in ...

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Inside the Nerve Center of the Legal Resistance to Trump

At a nondescript building not far from the White House, Skye Perryman recently convened a call with a group of seasoned lawyers. The purpose? To work through particularly thorny questions about an ...

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What Americans don’t get about the first US pope

Pope Leo XIV waves to the faithful as he arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, on November 12, 2025. | Riccardo de Luca/Anadolu via Getty Images ...

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An Anatomy of the MAGA Mind

“In the United States at this time,” the critic Lionel Trilling wrote in 1950, “liberalism is not only the dominant but even the sole intellectual tradition.” Conservatives and reactionaries, Trill...

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Too many cooks, not enough cash: Lack of a master plan muddies Los Angeles fire rebuild

The fires that leveled swaths of Los Angeles in January were still smoldering when the questions first emerged: Who was in charge of rebuilding Pacific Palisades and Altadena? And how were they goi...

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Vaccine-supporting Cassidy declines to speak against RFK Jr.

Sen. Bill Cassidy on Sunday declined to criticize Robert F. Kennedy after the Health and Human Services head personally instructed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to change its stanc...

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White House to pitch a Trump Obamacare extension with limits

The White House expects to soon unveil a health policy framework that includes a two-year extension of Obamacare subsidies due to expire at the end of next month and new limits on eligibility, acco...

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Why Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. So Convinced He’s Right?

Photographs by Elinor CarucciRobert F. Kennedy Jr. somehow knew, even as a little boy, that fate can lead a person to terrible places. “I always had the feeling that we were all involved in some gr...

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X's new location feature exposes apparent fraudster accounts posing as Americans, Gaza journalists

A new feature on Elon Musk's X is exposing the truth behind social media accounts across the political spectrum, with account owners apparently misleading followers about where they are posting fro...

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About This Account reveals the scale of X’s foreign troll problem

It’s long been known that X (and Twitter before it) is a major venue for foreign influence campaigns to meddle in American politics. Much of the focus has been on Russian troll farms...

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A month later, Trump has yet to follow through on Canada tariff threat

President Donald Trump has yet to follow through on his threat to impose an additional 10 percent tariff on Canadian imports, four weeks after he halted “all trade negotiations” over an anti-tariff...

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Kyrsten Sinema Took a 15-Hour Psychedelic Trip. Now She’s All in on MAHA.

ASPEN, COLORADO — Kyrsten Sinema’s old enemies on the left better brace themselves: The former senator is now embracing psychedelics and cozying up to MAHA.After infuriating progressives time and a...

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‘Is the price of doing this worth it?’: North Carolina Republicans worry about Trump immigration raids

Some North Carolina Republicans are worried President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown in the battleground state could backfire.The Trump administration has touted its North Carolina...

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Mamdani says he and Trump share commitment to 'the affordability agenda'

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said he and President Donald Trump were able to find common ground on their commitment to “working together for the affordability agenda” during a Friday me...

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X’s messy About This Account rollout has caused utter chaos

Yesterday X started rolling out a new About This Account feature, which included what country the account was created from and what country the account is “based” in (which is differ...

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10 Sunday Reads

Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning look at incompetence, corruption, and policy failures: • I looked into CoreWeave and the abyss gazed back: Meet the company Nvidia is propping up. (The Verge) •...

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‘We’re basically pushers’: Court filing alleges staff at social media giants compared their platforms to drugs

SACRAMENTO, California — Top Meta staff allegedly compared Instagram to a drug and worked for years to obscure the social media platform’s potential dangers from parents and children, even as they ...

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Republicans left the Obamacare cliff to the last minute. Some are regretting it.

Republicans have said for months they had plenty of time to figure out what to do about Obamacare subsidies expiring at year’s end. During a six-week government shutdown that ended last week, they ...

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The truth about Trump is sinking in for his MAGA followers

One of the truisms of American politics over the past few decades has been that voters want their presidents to be someone you’d like to have a beer with, a regular guy — yes, it’s only guys — you...

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