1. early and often
    Joe Biden Should Quit While He’s AheadA hot streak does not make a successful reelection, and he should allow a new generation of Democrats to emerge for 2024.
    By Ross Barkan
  2. the intelligencer profile
    Dorothy Roberts Tried to Warn UsThe legal scholar has been writing about the criminalization of pregnancy for 25 years. Now she’s calling to abolish the child welfare system.
    By Irin Carmon
  3. the city politic
    Why Are So Many of New York’s Basement Apartments Still Death Traps?It’s been a year since floodwaters drowned 11 New Yorkers in their homes, but nothing has been done to stop it from happening again.
    By Errol Louis
  4. 2022 midterms
    Where Will the Midterms Go From Here?Traditionally, Labor Day is when elections really kick into gear. Democrats are in a surprisingly good place, but they could still use some breaks.
    By Ed Kilgore
  5. conspiracy theories
    When Sean Hannity Made Life Hell for Seth Rich’s FamilyWhen Fox News revived a conspiracy theory about a murdered DNC staffer, his family came under blistering assault and decided, finally, to fight back.
    By Andy Kroll
  7. plagued
    What to Know About the New COVID Booster ShotsReformulated booster shots have arrived. Here’s how they are different and who can get them.
    By Chas Danner
  8. the national interest
    Republicans Will Fight to Restrict Abortion, But Will Only Die for Tax CutsA window into who truly rules the GOP.
    By Jonathan Chait
  9. early and often
    Rick Scott Wants Mitch McConnell to Be ‘Cheerleader’ for Bad CandidatesScott, the Republican Senatorial Committee chairman, is upset at McConnell for merely hinting that weak MAGA candidates are a problem for the party.
    By Ed Kilgore
  10. the national interest
    Did Republicans Pick Trump Because Democrats Were Mean to Romney?No. No, they didn’t.
    By Jonathan Chait
  11. early and often
    Sarah Palin’s Comeback Fails, Sending Democrat Mary Peltola to CongressRepublican divisions and voters’ distaste for Palin helped give Peltola, an Alaska Native, a narrow win in Alaska’s special election.
    By Ed Kilgore
  12. the speech wars
    The Marketing Veterans Leading a New Campaign to Defund the RightA Sleeping Giants veteran and her partner pioneered a new way to fight disinformation. Is it accountability or censorship?
    By Colin Moynihan
  13. early and often
    Mehmet Oz Recently Flip-Flopped to an Extreme Abortion StanceAnd now the GOP Senate candidate may need to flip right back as he struggles to catch up with Democratic opponent John Fetterman.
    By Ed Kilgore
  14. life after roe
    Vulnerable Anti-abortion House Republicans Set a Trap for ThemselvesPre-Dobbs, at-risk House Republicans bent the knee to the anti-abortion movement by backing a federal “personhood” statute. Now it actually matters.
    By Ed Kilgore
  15. the national interest
    Trump’s Document Lies Have Been Exposed. All He Has Left Are Threats.The Justice Department strips bare the former president’s defense.
    By Jonathan Chait
  16. politics
    Who’s the Change Agent Now?Joe Biden is delivering breakthroughs that long eluded Barack Obama. Who understands the presidency best?
    By Gabriel Debenedetti
  17. infrastructure
    Mississippi’s Largest City Doesn’t Have Enough WaterJackson’s long-plagued water system has effectively collapsed, leaving the more than 150,000 residents of the majority Black city in crisis.
    By Chas Danner
  18. tremendous content
    Trump’s Gossip on Macron’s Sex Life Can’t Be That GoodOne of the papers seized in the Mar-a-Lago raid contains “info re: President of France.” But could Trump really keep “tawdry” Macron dirt to himself?
    By Margaret Hartmann
  19. early and often
    Impeaching Biden Will Be Job One If Republicans Win the HouseSpeaker McCarthy will face intense pressure from the party’s MAGA wing to impeach Biden, setting up a performative Senate trial heading into 2024.
    By Ed Kilgore
  20. early and often
    Trump Demands Unconstitutional Do-over of 2020 ElectionAfter a dubious poll about Hunter Biden’s laptop, Trump is now blaming his loss on an FBI conspiracy — and his supporters probably believe him.
    By Ed Kilgore
  21. the national interest
    The Conservative Case for Letting Trump Obstruct JusticeA new legal doctrine emerges on the right.
    By Jonathan Chait
  22. vision 2024
    Please Shut Up About Liz Cheney or Larry Hogan in 2024The media should quit indulging what is almost disinformation about their White House aspirations.
    By Ed Kilgore
  23. justice
    Mar-a-Lago and the Never-ending Case Against TrumpWhat happens to the rule of law in purgatory?
    By Ankush Khardori
  24. early and often
    It Took Joe Biden, Career Centrist, to Cancel Student DebtProgressives forced him to make a previously radical campaign promise, and delivering on even some of it is a huge win for the left.
    By Ross Barkan
  25. early and often
    Alaska Will Send Either Sarah Palin or a Democrat to CongressThe state’s complex new voting system is producing a surprise result in the special election to complete the term of the late congressman Don Young.
    By Ed Kilgore
  26. life after roe
    Focus on Abortion Rights Can Help Blue-State Democrats TooAs polling on California’s abortion-rights ballot initiative shows, Democrats everywhere were mobilized by Dobbs. That could matter a lot in November.
    By Ed Kilgore
  27. 2022 midterms
    What If Democrats Actually Won the Midterms?If Democrats control both houses of Congress in 2023, including enough senators to kill the filibuster, they better get as much done as possible.
    By Ed Kilgore
  28. early and often
    Biden’s Job-Approval Numbers Are (Slowly) ClimbingThe president is still too unpopular to help Democrats produce a midterm upset, but the trends are in the right direction.
    By Ed Kilgore
  29. encounter
    Everything’s Coming Up SchumerThe Senate majority leader has a “different way of getting things done” that saved Biden’s agenda and maybe their party.
    By Ben Jacobs
  30. life after roe
    Blake Masters Executes Huge If Sneaky Flip-Flop on AbortionFeeling heat on his extremist abortion position, Trump’s guy in Arizona’s Senate race changed his position and accused his opponent of lying about it.
    By Ed Kilgore
  31. early and often
    Yuh-Line Niou Says She’s Thinking About Running Against Dan Goldman AgainThe progressive Democrat may run on the Working Families Party line in November for the Brooklyn-Manhattan seat in Congress.
    By Nia Prater
  32. politics
    Pair Who Gave Biden Daughter’s Diary to Project Veritas Pleads Guilty to TheftA Florida man and woman are cooperating with investigators looking into how James O’Keefe’s group came into her property ahead of the 2020 election.
    By Matt Stieb
  33. early and often
    Trump Revives His Feud With McConnell (and His Wife, ‘Coco’)The former president is raging at Mitch McConnell and Elaine Chao once again. But Trump and McConnell need each other too much to feud forever.
    By Ed Kilgore
  34. early and often
    Georgia Republicans Pretend Trump Didn’t Label Them TraitorsAfter surviving Trump’s attempt to purge them, candidates like Brian Kemp and Brad Raffensperger are trying to reunite their party for November.
    By Ed Kilgore
  35. the picket line
    The Truth Behind ‘Quiet Quitting’Workers are reclaiming their time from the boss.
    By Sarah Jones
  36. 2022 midterms
    Crist to DeSantis Supporters: I Don’t Want Your Votes!One of America’s sunniest politicians is gambling that he can run against hate, which he says is a key characteristic of Ron DeSantis voters.
    By Ed Kilgore
  37. early and often
    Democrats Are Riding the Backlash to the End of RoeA New York special election is the latest in a string of surprises since the Supreme Court’s ruling, with some candidates outperforming Biden.
    By Ben Jacobs
  38. 2022 midterms
    In Florida, It Was a Battle Between MAGA and Mega-MAGAOnce general election competition has been swept away by gerrymanders, there’s no end to the extremism.
    By Ed Kilgore
  39. 2022 midterms
    What a Difference a Year Has Made for Gavin NewsomAfter surviving a 2021 effort to recall him, the California governor is cruising to an easy reelection and making national waves.
    By Ed Kilgore
  40. early and often
    Dan Goldman Defeats a Splintered Field of ProgressivesIt was a nail-biter against Yuh-Line Niou, but the veteran prosecutor who put $4 million into his own campaign emerged victorious.
    By Nia Prater and Ross Barkan
  41. early and often
    Carl Paladino, Buffalo’s Donald Trump, Loses Republican PrimaryUpstate Republicans reject the state’s most notorious Republican, who has a history of racist comments.
    By Ben Jacobs
  42. 2022 midterms
    Florida Democrats Pick Ex-Republican Charlie Crist to Take On Ron DeSantisNikki Fried offered “something new,” but Democrats decided they needed someone tried and true to take on the menacing incumbent Republican.
    By Ed Kilgore
  43. tremendous content
    Trump to ‘Save America’ by Putting Portrait in SmithsonianSurprise, Save America PAC donors! Your money is going toward portraits of Donald and Melania for the National Portrait Gallery.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  44. life after roe
    How Abortion Transformed Democrats’ Midterm ChancesThe backlash to the fall of Roe could boost Democratic turnout, change swing-voter attitudes, and put Republicans on the defensive.
    By Ed Kilgore
  45. the national interest
    Trump Is Completely Innocent, Argues Fellow CriminalTrump’s base of white-collar criminals is energized.
    By Jonathan Chait
  46. early and often
    The 4 Big Races to Watch in New YorkThe Democratic primaries will test the strength of the left, and a special election may determine how abortion rights will play in November.
    By Ross Barkan
  47. the national interest
    Kyrsten Sinema’s Problems Are Only BeginningNo Democrat has hurt themselves worse this term.
    By Jonathan Chait
  48. tremendous content
    All the Juicy Gossip From Jared Kushner’s BookBreaking History, the forthcoming memoir from the former First Son-in-Law/top Trump adviser, is brimming with dirt, jabs, and score settling.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  49. republicanisms
    What Is Wrong With Ron DeSantis’s Arms?Is that a Trump imitation, or is that how all politicians are now standing in Florida?
    By Matt Stieb
  50. early and often
    What Would a Divided Congress Do After the Midterms?If the midterms produce a Republican House and a Democratic Senate, expect more noise than legislation for the rest of Biden’s term.
    By Ed Kilgore
  51. life after roe
    Ludicrous Kansas Abortion Recount Could Be the Wave of the FutureThere were no grounds for a hand recount of the big win for abortion rights. But right-wing activists think sowing doubt is its own justification.
    By Ed Kilgore
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