Politics

Trump’s Cheesecake Factory Dissent

The Republican Party, with one notable exception, has settled on a populist closing message: Barack Obama’s weekend joke that the president has “got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein open...

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Pablo Torre on what sports reveal about Trump’s America | America, Actually

In a special episode of America, Actually, Pablo Torre says sports reveal some of the biggest tensions shaping American politics: billionaire power, rising costs, and a growing sense that the syste...

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Australian Labor spent AU$2.6M ousting 2 Greens rivals from parliament

CANBERRA — The Labor Party spent AU$1.3 million in each of two inner-city Brisbane seats held by the Greens, including its successful bid to oust the prime minister’s antagonist, Max Chandler-Mathe...

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Bernie Sanders Is Suddenly Everywhere

As the Bernie Sanders road show traveled south through Maine earlier this month, the crowds grew bigger and louder with each stop. About 650 people showed up at a convention center in Bangor, then ...

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MORNING GLORY: The Democrats have a 'Fanatic Four' of extremist Senate candidates

Despite the basic rule of politics — it takes 50% of the vote plus one to win — both parties have occasionally put forward nominees from the farther reaches of the right or from the extreme left. T...

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How Lula turned the tables on the right in Brazil and the US with his comeback presidential victory

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva addresses supporters during a victory rally in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Oct. 25, 2026, after winning a fourth presidential term. AP Photo/Natacha PisarenkoA leade...

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Yes, We Have No Bananas

Maybe you’ve seen the ad: A man and a woman are loading a shopping cart. The woman tells the man he must return a carton of eggs. “We have to set that $7 aside for killing Palestinians.”The woman e...

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Raskin warns oil industry against Trump's Russian diesel deal

Oil companies will "be held accountable" if they import any barrels of Russian diesel fuel under the deal that President Donald Trump struck with the Kremlin, House Judiciary ranking member Jamie R...

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Judge bars Trump admin from further tree-felling, closures, at golf course

A federal judge Monday night temporarily blocked the Trump administration from cutting down additional trees or closing down a public golf course that the president intends to upgrade to a champio...

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Trump’s fundraising dominance is masking a long-term problem for Republicans

Republicans’ small-dollar donor base has contracted in recent years, leaving the party more dependent on a tiny group of wealthy megadonors for support.The GOP has had a cash advantage all year tha...

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Democrats’ affordability message collides with calls to defend transgender rights

Some Democrats are fired up to use their potential majorities in Congress next year and undo President Donald Trump’s attacks on transgender Americans. Others just want to focus on the cost of gas....

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Conservative climate movement faces a blue wave wipeout

A blue wave that brings Democrats control of Congress could also have the counterintuitive effect of swamping climate policy partners across the aisle.The Conservative Climate Caucus, a Republican ...

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How Big Tech and Abbott made Texas the ‘epicenter’ of data centers

HOUSTON — Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has been cracking down on data centers for months, but less than a year ago his appointees and staffers were actively trying to bring projects to the sta...

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Kathy Hochul on Trump, Mamdani and the Future of New York

NEW YORK — It wasn't wings or beef on weck, but Buffalo's Kathy Hochul these days calls New York City home more often than not. And if you're looking for a morning nosh in Manhattan, well, you can...

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Bolsonaro concedes but Lula’s fight has just begun

In what’s being described as an unlikely comeback, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won reelection on Oct. 25, defeating Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro in the second round of an election that p...

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Catholic leaders distance themselves from Trump after Oval Office prayer video

Several Catholic leaders are distancing themselves from the White House in the lead up to the midterms, after an administration official posted a video of them praying over President Donald Trump i...

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Florida GOP spends millions in push to save Tallahassee supermajority

TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Even as Republicans encounter tough contests across the country, they are expected to keep their firm grip on the Florida Legislature. But they’re tapping their vast donor ne...

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Mamdani is using NYPD gym to host pickup basketball games with friends

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a group of fellow basketball enthusiasts have been secretly using the NYPD Police Academy’s gymnasium in Queens to play pickup ball, according to four people fam...

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The Elections: Grab Your Popcorn, And Stay Near Your Fallout Shelter

(Image via Getty) The elections in Israel will be held tomorrow, October 27. Election Day in the United States is a week from tomorrow, November 3. Grab your popcorn, and stay ...

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Brazil voted to re-elect Lula. Trump’s allies aren’t happy.

President Donald Trump has been playing nice this year with Brazil’s leftist President Luiz Ignácio Lula da Silva amid high-stakes trade talks. After Lula’s shock re-election Sunday, some Trump ins...

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Leave the Cheesecake Factory Out of This

At 2 o’clock on Sunday afternoon, I found myself in a corner booth at the Cheesecake Factory, emerging from the fog of war.Before me were a dozen half-empty plates, a cluster of dirty napkins, and ...

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