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Inside Trump’s Ballroom Obsession

The president’s bid for architectural immortality is barreling toward completion. podcast By Ben Terris

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Republican Midterm Odds Are Looking Pretty Grim

By Ed Kilgore Election forecasts show there’s a limited — but still nonzero — possibility of the GOP holding Congress and maintaining Trump’s trifecta.

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Maria Bartiromo Is Suddenly Out at Fox and No One’s Sure Why

By Nia Prater The network abruptly announced Bartiromo’s departure on Thursday, but her lawyer says reports that she no longer works for Fox are false.

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Fetterman Quiet Quits: 6 Wildest Takeaways From The Wall Street Journal’s Story

A stunning new report alleges the Pennsylvania senator rebuffed meetings with veterans and children’s hospital officials while making time for Fox.

Maria Bartiromo Is Suddenly Out at Fox and No One’s Sure Why

The network abruptly announced Bartiromo’s departure on Thursday, but her lawyer says reports that she no longer works for Fox are false.

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early and often

GOP Congress Is Bailing on Trump’s Unfinished Business

The watchword for congressional Republicans in 2026 was mañana. Now time has run out.

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the approval matrix

the approval matrix

The Approval Matrix: Putting the ‘Bi’ in Biden

Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.

tremendous content

tremendous content

7 Reasons Republicans Dread Trump’s Midterm Convention

By Margaret Hartmann

GOP candidates and operatives have a lot of complaints about this expensive, poorly planned, and likely counterproductive “Trumpapalooza.”

Republican Midterm Odds Are Looking Pretty Grim

Election forecasts show there’s a limited — but still nonzero — possibility of the GOP holding Congress and maintaining Trump’s trifecta.

Inside Trump’s Ballroom Obsession

The president’s bid for architectural immortality is barreling toward completion.

Elon Musk’s Midterms Play: Ken Paxton, Susan Collins, Socialist Scaremongering

The almost-trillionaire is expected to spend upward of $100 million boosting Republicans in 2026.

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tremendous content

Trump’s GOP Midterm Convention Has a Crowd-Size Problem

By Margaret Hartmann

Many GOP candidates don’t want to attend next week’s “Trumpapalooza.” The party’s solution: Add more Trump.

Hegseth Is Extending the Iran War Trump Says Is Over

The Pentagon will reportedly increase the burden on service members and extend troop deployments in the Middle East into 2027.

What We Owe Nolan Wells

By Cristian Farias

As the investigation drags on, and internet sleuthing fills the void, justice requires getting to the truth and nothing but.

The Other Victims of 9/11

By Lukas I. Alpert

Twenty-five years after the attack, tens of thousands of people have gotten sick. I am one of them.

The Unlikely Winner of Trump’s Trade War With Canada? MapQuest.

An executive for the bygone app explains the “surreal” surge of users after it refused to capitulate to Trump’s plan to rename Lake Ontario.

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tremendous content

Trump Renaming Spree Gets Even Stupider With ‘Trump Strait’

By Margaret Hartmann

Turns out he was only scratching the surface with “Lake America.”

Trump Got His Face on Some Gold-Colored Currency

A $1 coin will cost you more than $1.

early and often

early and often

Democrats’ Old-Guard Primary Purge Skips Massachusetts

Led by Ed Markey, three very old incumbent Democrats easily survived challenges from the left and the center.

NYC Schools Take Drastic Steps on AI

The nation’s largest public school system will ban the use of artificial intelligence from preschool to eighth grade.

the city politic

the city politic

Fighting Trump’s Agenda Starts in the States

Daniel Squadron wants voters to tune out the cable news slugfests.

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early and often

Neera Tanden, Establishment Warrior

By Nate Weisberg

She returned to the Center for American Progress to fight Trump. She’s spent much of her time fighting her left flank instead.

early and often

early and often

Congress Dodges Pre-Midterms Government Shutdown

The bipartisan House vote means some fights will simply be deferred to a lame-duck session, with the next shutdown threat in December.

J.D. Vance and Abdul El-Sayed Really Don’t Like Each Other

The vice-president called the Michigan Senate hopeful “evil” on Monday, but El-Sayed is giving as good as he’s getting in this feud.

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tremendous content

Now You’re Paying for Trump’s Fancy Bowling Alley, Too

By Margaret Hartmann

The White House bowling alley is getting a $250,000 taxpayer-funded upgrade, though Melania Trump already renovated it in 2019.

Whistleblower Raises Alarming Possibility About Mail Ballots

An unnamed federal official warned that the Postal Service’s moves to comply with a Trump executive order could “derail” the midterms.

September’s Subscriber-Only Perk: BOGO Movie Tickets and Free Popcorn

It’s a date. This September, New York subscribers get two movie tickets for the price of one, plus a free medium popcorn at the Angelika Film Center.

The U.S. Open Has Become the Unpredictable Major

Novak Djokovic’s first-round loss is just the latest shocker at the Grand Slam where anything can happen.