Politics

The Shutdown Is Over, but Its Damage Is Not

The longest-ever government shutdown ended on November 12, but Deairra Tracey is still scared.The disabled mother of three from Perth Amboy, New Jersey, had to visit food banks and skip meals so th...

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The President Is Losing Control of Himself

Presidents often lose control over their agenda, or the policy process, or pieces of legislation. Sometimes, they even lose control of their party. But Donald Trump seems to have lost control over ...

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Trump, Mamdani make love — not war

A high-stakes White House meeting between President Donald Trump and mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani turned into a lovefest — with both men heaping populist praise on each other for pursuing ways to add...

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Haiti qualified for the World Cup. But the Trump administration says its fans aren’t welcome.

The Trump administration will not grant any special exceptions for Haitian soccer fans hoping to travel to the U.S. to follow their team at next year’s FIFA World Cup, according to the State Depart...

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Texas asks Supreme Court to reinstate congressional map that could give GOP 5 more seats

Texas officials are asking the Supreme Court for an urgent ruling to revive the state’s newly-drawn congressional map expected to net five additional Republican seats.The emergency appeal filed Fri...

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Marjorie Taylor Greene resigns from Congress after clash with Trump

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the MAGA loyalist who rose to prominence for her ardent support of President Donald Trump, announced she is resigning from Congress after her public feud with the presi...

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DOJ makes a new attempt to unseal Epstein grand jury records

The Justice Department renewed its effort Friday to publicly release grand jury records related to the criminal prosecutions of Jeffrey Epstein and his longtime ally and co-conspirator Ghislaine Ma...

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Trump and Mamdani’s Strange First Meeting

Today’s White House meeting between New York’s mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani, and President Donald Trump suggests that maybe, just maybe, the U.S. government won’t go to war with its largest city. Th...

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The White House has asked for the resignation of a top aide to FDA chief

The White House on Thursday emailed HHS leadership asking for the resignation of a top aide to FDA Commissioner Marty Makary whom he had sought to promote, according to two administration officials...

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‘The Ukrainians will have to accept’: Why Trump officials think now is their best chance for a deal

The Trump administration believes the moment to pressure Ukraine into a peace agreement is at hand, with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy particularly weak at home and plagued by a corruption scandal ...

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What’s in the Epstein files? And when will you see them?

Get ready to read the Epstein files.President Donald Trump signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act into law this week, starting the 30-day clock for the administration to publicly release informa...

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New Jersey may stop paying federal taxes under new governor

Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey is floating the possibility that the state withholds federal tax dollars in protest of the Trump administration.The comments from Sherrill — made on comedian...

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Death in the Time of Trump

Here’s yet another indication that Washington has been turned upside down in recent years: I saw Rachel Maddow at Dick Cheney’s funeral and didn’t give it a second thought. She was sitting with Ant...

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The Strange and Totally Real Plan to Blot Out the Sun and Reverse Global Warming

Janos Pasztor was conflicted. Sitting in his home office in a village just outside Geneva, he stared into the screen of his computer, where a bizarre Zoom call was taking place. It was Jan. 31, 202...

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Inside the DOGE Succession Drama Elon Musk Left Behind

On a Thursday afternoon in early June, 12 staffers from the Department of Government Efficiency packed up their clothes and bedding from the sixth-floor of the Government Services Administration he...

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Are Sports the Most Valuable Commodity in the World?

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Are sports the most valuable commodity in the world? On this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel is joined by Pablo Torre for an examination...

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This House GOP centrist is plotting a new health care bill aimed at winning over Trump

A key House Republican moderate is drafting a new bill that would extend soon-to-expire Obamacare subsidies and offer a carrot to try to win over more-conservative GOP colleagues and President Dona...

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Mamdani’s meeting with Trump comes with a power disadvantage

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump has all the power in his Oval Office sit down Friday with New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. And his advantage over the incoming mayor is vast.The temperame...

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Robert Reich Thinks Democrats Are On the Brink of a New Era

The Labor Department reported September jobs numbers on Thursday, showing employers added 119,000 jobs to the economy but also an increase in unemployment to 4.4 percent. “The Sep...

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MIKE PENCE: No place for antisemitism in America today, tomorrow or ever

The conservative movement has found itself in a season of confusion in recent weeks. Former friends quarrel, familiar institutions are in turmoil, and some voices, both new and old, on the right ha...

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Indiana's Chief Trump Resister Breaks His Silence

INDIANAPOLIS — The Republican leading Indiana’s resistance to President Donald Trump’s big-ask redistricting pressure campaign is finishing a surreal, dystopian week.On Sunday, hours after Trump po...

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