1. the national interest
    Trump Blurts Out ‘Peace’ Plan to Hand Russia Chunks of UkraineSean Hannity tastefully edits this out of the interview.
    By Jonathan Chait
  2. poll position
    Biden Starts 2024 Race With 73-Point Lead Over Primary OpponentMaybe Marianne Williamson isn’t a “serious” challenger, but if no other Democrat runs, her standing is a testament to Biden’s strength.
    By Ed Kilgore
  3. early and often
    Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson Won’t Let Republicans Forget About January 6Republican 2024 candidates would love to move on from the Capitol riot. But key MAGA figures keep trying to paper over it for their own purposes.
    By Ed Kilgore
  4. early and often
    No Labels Has a Genius 2024 Plan That Would Kneecap BidenThird Way is warning that fellow centrists in the group No Labels are moving ahead with a 2024 ticket that is likely to boost a Republican.
    By Ed Kilgore
  5. sports
    DeSantis Asks Biden If Djokovic Can Enter U.S. by BoatThe Florida governor is using the unvaccinated tennis star’s ban from America as a political cudgel.
    By Benjamin Hart
  7. early and often
    Biden Aims to Keep Playing Offense on MedicareThe president is framing Medicare solvency as a choice between tax hikes on the rich and benefit cuts in another preemptive strike at Republicans.
    By Ed Kilgore
  8. politics
    Hope Hicks Meets With Manhattan Prosecutors Investigating TrumpThe probe into the former president’s 2016 hush-money payments seems to be heating up.
    By Nia Prater
  9. 2024 presidential election
    How Trump Rewrote the GOP Primary Rules to Favor HimA pro-Trump 2020 rule change on how delegates are awarded may make it even easier for the 2024 front-runners to box out everyone else.
    By Ed Kilgore
  10. early and often
    Larry Hogan Won’t Run in 2024’s Imaginary GOP ‘Moderate Lane’While the former Maryland governor had appeared on many lists of potential GOP presidential candidates, he’s bending to reality.
    By Ed Kilgore
  11. on with kara swisher
    Marc Benioff Regrets Not Buying TwitterKara Swisher has a long talk with the embattled Salesforce CEO about activist investors, Elon Musk, drunk tweeting, and much more.
    By Intelligencer Staff
  12. the national interest
    CPAC Speaker Michael Knowles Urges Eradication of Trans Rights“There can be no middle way in dealing with transgenderism. It is all or nothing.”
    By Jonathan Chait
  13. early and often
    Trump Is As Electable Now As He Was in 2016Republicans who want to stop Trump’s renomination need a better argument than “he can’t win.” We’ve been there before.
    By Ed Kilgore
  14. student loans
    Why the Supreme Court Might Uphold Student-Debt ReliefAlso, why it may not.
    By Eric Levitz
  15. early and often
    CPAC Was a Janky Half-Empty Trump ConventionThe 2023 Conservative Political Action Conference lacked both conservatives and action.
    By Ben Jacobs
  16. early and often
    Biden Chooses Crime Messaging Over D.C. Home RuleThe president surprised and angered some Democrats by declining to veto a GOP effort to block a D.C. bill. It’s all about not looking soft on crime.
    By Ed Kilgore
  17. tremendous content
    Donald Trump Jr. Plays Incompetent Willy Wonka at CPACHe offered gold-wrapped candy bars in a stunt that showed he isn’t a worthy successor to his dad.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  18. life after roe
    Walgreens Won’t Sell Abortion Pills in Red States Even Where It’s LegalThe second-largest retail pharmacy chain won’t buck Republican attorneys general. Will others follow?
    By Ed Kilgore
  19. politics
    Eric Adams Does Some GodsplainingDuring a press conference, the mayor said his words about not believing in the separation of church and state were just his own beliefs.
    By Nia Prater
  20. early and often
    Mike Pence’s 2024 Strategy Totally Depends on Iowa EvangelicalsThe former VP has an extremely narrow path to viability in 2024. It runs through Iowa — following the course set by Huckabee, Santorum, and Cruz.
    By Ed Kilgore
  21. health care
    A Whistleblower’s Claims About a St. Louis Transgender Center Are Under FireJamie Reed’s shocking account of a clinic mistreating children went viral. Parents and patients are now refuting her key claims.
    By Chas Danner
  22. the talented mr. santos
    George Santos’s Nasty Twitter Battle With Fellow New York RepublicansAnthony D’Esposito has a bill to keep Santos, a fellow Republican, from profiting off his lies. It sparked a war of words that quickly got personal.
    By Nia Prater
  23. early and often
    Florida Republican Wants to ‘Cancel’ Democrats Over SlaveryA Florida bill takes a ridiculous GOP argument to the extreme, aiming to eliminate the Democratic Party for its ancient ties to white supremacy.
    By Ed Kilgore
  24. the economy
    The 4-Day Week Is for White-collar WorkersFor America’s wage laborers, a 32-hour workweek is less of a beautiful dream than an oppressive reality.
    By Eric Levitz
  25. politics
    It Sure Doesn’t Seem Like Havana Syndrome Is Russia’s FaultA comprehensive new government study concludes that the illness probably wasn’t caused by foreign adversaries.
    By Benjamin Hart
  26. poll position
    2024 Polls Show DeSantis Can’t Easily Knock Out TrumpDespite the hype about Ron DeSantis surging past Donald Trump, both Republicans look unusually strong at this early stage of the presidential race.
    By Ed Kilgore
  27. politics
    City to Pay Millions to Protesters Kettled by NYPD in 2020Hundreds of people violently detained during a protest in the Bronx could receive $21,500 each.
    By Nia Prater
  28. the national interest
    DeSantis Promises Florida Will Control Disney ContentRight-wing board to clamp down on “woke ideology” in cartoons.
    By Jonathan Chait
  29. the inside game
    Kate Bedingfield, Biden’s Translator, Leaves the White HouseShe explains the press to the president, preaches Twitter-is-not-real-life, and keeps the West Wing from leaking.
    By Gabriel Debenedetti
  30. early and often
    Biden Dares Republicans to Go After Obamacare and MedicaidIt’s part of campaign to smoke out and then attack unpopular Republican cuts.
    By Ed Kilgore
  31. politics
    In Tennessee, Even Abortion to Save a Woman’s Life May Be IllegalThe state has a near-total abortion ban, and now activists and GOP officials are fighting an exemption for physician-defined medical emergencies.
    By Ed Kilgore
  32. tremendous content
    Watch: Fox News Can’t Find DeSantis Fans in a Florida DinerFox & Friends polled diner patrons on their 2024 picks, and even the lady wearing a “DeSantis” shirt said she might go for Trump.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  33. early and often
    Trump to Seniors: DeSantis Is Your Mortal EnemyTrump is now attacking DeSantis for his past support of cuts in Social Security and Medicare, calling him a “wheelchair off the cliff kind of guy.”
    By Ed Kilgore
  34. the national interest
    The Surprisingly Contrarian Case Against Lying About ScienceThe philosophical debate behind the lab-leak question.
    By Jonathan Chait
  35. the economy
    The U.S. Is Choosing Child Labor Over More ImmigrationWhy young migrant workers are illegally filling a void in the job market.
    By Eric Levitz
  36. on with kara swisher
    Richard Haass on America’s Relationship Problems With ChinaKara Swisher talks with the Council on Foreign Relations president about Biden’s spy-balloon-size missed opportunity.
    By Intelligencer Staff
  37. early and often
    RNC Loyalty Test Only Punishes Honest Candidates, Not TrumpRepublicans are making their 2024 candidates promise to support eventual nominee. Trump made the same pledge in 2016, then said he wouldn’t honor it.
    By Ed Kilgore
  38. the talented mr. santos
    A Huge Majority of Voters in George Santos’s Own District Think He Should ResignIn a poll, 78 percent of voters from the Third Congressional District say they’ve seen enough of their representative.
    By Nia Prater
  39. the system
    Why Young Thug?How prosecutors made one of the hottest rap stars the face of urban crime.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  40. media
    Elon Musk Backs Dilbert Guy, Says the Media Is ‘Racist Against Whites’The Twitter owner came to Scott Adams’s defense after the cartoonist’s racist rant led hundreds of newspapers to drop his long-running comic strip.
    By Chas Danner
  41. early and often
    The GOP’s Addiction to Culture War May Cost It in 2024The habitual Fox News viewer is worried about “wokeness.” The median voter? Not so much.
    By Eric Levitz
  42. the group portrait
    ‘This War Stole a Year of My Life’Bombings, blackouts, exodus: How sixteen young Ukrainians have survived.
  43. early and often
    DeSantis, Republicans Getting Serious About Intimidating Media With LawsuitsA new phase in the effort to overturn constitutional press protections is emerging in both the courts and the Florida legislature.
    By Ed Kilgore
  44. early and often
    Will the 2024 Convention Site Actually Help Democrats Win?Democrats are choosing between Atlanta, Chicago, or New York. The DNC’s location may not sway electoral votes, but it could impact other races.
    By Ed Kilgore
  45. early and often
    Joe Biden Is Running in 2024, So Please Stop Annoying Jill About ItThe exasperated First Lady said scheduling Joe’s campaign launch is “pretty much” all that’s left to do. That’s enough confirmation for me.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  46. early and often
    Tim Scott’s 2024 Pitch Is Only ‘Sunny’ If You Like GOP DominanceThe senator laid out his ostensibly “optimistic” vision in Iowa ahead of a possible 2024 run. It was full of gloomy red-meat attacks on Democrats.
    By Ed Kilgore
  47. life after roe
    A Majority of Americans Are Pro-Choice, Even in Red StatesA survey found pro-choice majorities in all but seven states, which means Republicans pushing state abortion bans are often defying public opinion.
    By Ed Kilgore
  48. politics
    George Santos Wants to Make the AR-15 America’s ‘National Gun’The congressman took a break from giving interviews about his many lies to co-sponsor a bill that would honor the weapon used in many mass shootings.
    By Nia Prater
  49. early and often
    How Did Donald Trump Beat Pete Buttigieg to East Palestine, Ohio?Democratic flailing gives Republicans — no friends of the environment or rail safety — an easy victory.
    By Ross Barkan
  50. early and often
    The Enemies of Social Security and Medicare Haven’t Given Up YetGOP entitlement reformers like Mike Pence and Paul Ryan know their proposals are wildly unpopular. They just can’t help themselves.
    By Ed Kilgore
  51. early and often
    Vivek Ramaswamy Joins 2024 Race As Yet Another Anti-Woke CrusaderThe entrepreneur and author, who has no political experience, may struggle to distinguish himself from all the other Republicans battling “wokeness.”
    By Ed Kilgore
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