Politics

Two New Yorkers Walk Into the Oval Office

When Zohran Mamdani walks into the Oval Office on Friday, he will be meeting with a natural enemy. President Donald Trump has hurled various insults and attacks at Mamdani for months, while New Yor...

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Trump plan to end Ukraine war cedes Donbas to Russia

Russia would make sweeping territorial gains and Ukraine would get an as-yet-undefined U.S. security guarantee under the Trump administration’s 28-point proposal to end the deadliest conflict in Eu...

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Eric Swalwell enters California governor’s race

Rep. Eric Swalwell, an outspoken Donald Trump antagonist, is running for California governor, adding one more Democratic hopeful to the jam-packed field.The seven-term member of Congress, who repre...

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The 2028 Olympics goes MAGA

LOS ANGELES — The 2028 Olympic games is adding Team Trump to its roster.LA28, the organizing committee for the upcoming Summer Games and Paralympics in Los Angeles, posted new members of the board ...

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The Ghislaine Maxwell Emails

The emails that Ghislaine Maxwell has been sending over the past several months from a minimum-security prison near Houston are stamped Sensitive But Unclassified. Maxwell once cavorted with presid...

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Why The Trump Administration’s Comparison Of Antifa To Hamas, ISIS, And MS-13 Makes No Sense

When Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem compared antifa to the transnational criminal group MS-13, Hamas and the Islamic State group in October 2025, she equated a nonhierarchical, loosely org...

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Two decades later, Cornel West’s critique of Larry Summers hits differently

Larry Summers once drove Cornel West out of Harvard in a very public fight. Now, Summers is back in the spotlight, and West can’t help but point out the irony.“There's a certain level of, not just ...

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'Our most important battle’: Obama privately urges freshman Dems to fight cynicism

Former President Barack Obama is embracing his role as mentor-in-chief, huddling with nearly three dozen freshman House Democrats at the Capitol Hill home of Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) at a Wednes...

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The House is scrambling to avoid a censure death spiral

As he reconvened the House this month after a seven-week recess, Speaker Mike Johnson promised to recommit lawmakers to making laws — adding session days and keeping them voting into the night to c...

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Every State Is a Border Patrol State

The Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino posted a video over the weekend showing a pep talk he’d given in Chicago to agents operating far from their usual stations along the Mexico border. Set to...

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Brian Kilmeade retraces Washington’s daring Delaware crossing in new Fox Nation season

As the United States of America approaches its 250th anniversary, Fox Nation has history buffs covered as it shines a spotlight on some of the most iconic moments of the country's past.The 10th sea...

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Lula at climate summit: US might not be gone for good

BELÉM, Brazil — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva called late Wednesday for a global winding-down of fossil fuels — and said he hoped to someday get the U.S. behind it.“We must reduce g...

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Meet the Republicans who killed solar subsidies — after using them

At least three Republican lawmakers took advantage of a decades-old rooftop solar credit that will end in January due to President Donald Trump's megalaw, according to a review of property records ...

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‘I’d love to fire his ass’: Trump fumes at Powell as Fed splits over rates

The Federal Reserve is poised to frustrate President Donald Trump. Again.Central bank policymakers are increasingly split over whether they should lower interest rates in December, with investors n...

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(Some) MAGA Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

One night at a party in an East Village speakeasy, a pair of 20-somethings—high on youth and rail liquor—made their way to the bar’s single-occupancy bathroom, and proceeded to go at it. I know thi...

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President Piggy

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.The roughly six months that have made up November this year have—it’s fair to say—not been a high point for ...

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Vance tries to thread the affordability needle

Vice President JD Vance on Thursday offered an explanation for the slate of political quagmires Republicans are juggling, including persistent cost of living issues and even divisions within the Re...

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Trump admin won't force new SNAP reapplication process

The Trump administration's promised overhaul of the nation’s largest food aid program will rely on existing policies rather than forcing people to reapply for benefits, according to two people gran...

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A split at the top: Why Thune and Johnson are at odds this week

Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune have largely worked in lockstep since January. This week, they hit a rough patch.The two men are known for rising above whatever theatrics...

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Cassidy’s Obamacare plan will not lower skyrocketing premiums, Democrats and policy experts say

It’s too little, too late for Sen. Bill Cassidy’s (R-La.) Obamacare subsidy compromise.That’s the message from health policy experts and Democrats on Cassidy’s proposed middle ground over Congress’...

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As health insurance premiums soar, pressure on Republicans mounts

Rising Obamacare premiums are a political problem for Republicans. Rising premiums for workers who get health insurance from their employers could be an even bigger one.Republicans in Congress are ...

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