Politics

Elon Musk’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors

Over the weekend, Elon Musk’s X rolled out a feature that had the immediate result of sowing maximum chaos. The update, called “About This Account,” allows people to click on the profile of an X us...

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Pentagon to investigate Sen. Mark Kelly for anti-Trump video

The Pentagon on Monday announced it is investigating Sen. Mark Kelly, a critic of President Donald Trump and Navy veteran, after he and fellow Democrats advised troops not to follow illegal orders....

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Trump directs science agencies to embrace AI

The White House wants to turbocharge the nation’s scientific research capabilities by embracing artificial intelligence.President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday to launch what’s b...

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The Education Department gave another agency power to distribute money. It hasn’t gone smoothly.

The stumbles of an early Trump administration experiment to carve up the Education Department risks undercutting the president’s more dramatic demolition plan for the agency.The Labor Department be...

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Comey, James cases dismissed as judge disqualifies interim US attorney Lindsey Halligan

A federal judge has thrown out the criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, concluding that President Donald Trump’s handpicked prosecutor...

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America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle

A new feature on X is making people suddenly realize that some large portion of the divisive, hateful, and spammy content designed to inflame tensions or, at the very least, is designed to ge...

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X's fake accounts are exactly what Elon Musk paid for

Elon Musk bought Twitter in 2022 and created a system seemingly designed to reward posters who excelled at rage bait.BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty ImagesOn the internet, nobody knows you're a do...

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'You can’t just talk about gas and groceries’: GOP grapples with housing affordability message

Republicans are struggling to find a winning message on housing costs — an issue that’s top of mind for Americans — heading into a midterm election season that both parties expect to be decided by ...

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Under Mike Johnson, a rarely used House tool has gone mainstream

Over the course of decades, House lawmakers had succeeded only a few times in triggering votes on bills the chamber’s leaders refused to call up.Then Mike Johnson became speaker.On the Louisiana Re...

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Georgia Republicans caught in a bind of Trump's making over health care costs

Republicans across the country are in a bind of President Donald Trump’s making: After voting to end the 43-day federal shutdown, they have yet to articulate a plan to tackle the upcoming spike in ...

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Inside the Nerve Center of the Legal Resistance to Trump

At a nondescript building not far from the White House, Skye Perryman recently convened a call with a group of seasoned lawyers. The purpose? To work through particularly thorny questions about an ...

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What Americans don’t get about the first US pope

Pope Leo XIV waves to the faithful as he arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, on November 12, 2025. | Riccardo de Luca/Anadolu via Getty Images ...

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An Anatomy of the MAGA Mind

“In the United States at this time,” the critic Lionel Trilling wrote in 1950, “liberalism is not only the dominant but even the sole intellectual tradition.” Conservatives and reactionaries, Trill...

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Too many cooks, not enough cash: Lack of a master plan muddies Los Angeles fire rebuild

The fires that leveled swaths of Los Angeles in January were still smoldering when the questions first emerged: Who was in charge of rebuilding Pacific Palisades and Altadena? And how were they goi...

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Vaccine-supporting Cassidy declines to speak against RFK Jr.

Sen. Bill Cassidy on Sunday declined to criticize Robert F. Kennedy after the Health and Human Services head personally instructed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to change its stanc...

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White House to pitch a Trump Obamacare extension with limits

The White House expects to soon unveil a health policy framework that includes a two-year extension of Obamacare subsidies due to expire at the end of next month and new limits on eligibility, acco...

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Why Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. So Convinced He’s Right?

Photographs by Elinor CarucciRobert F. Kennedy Jr. somehow knew, even as a little boy, that fate can lead a person to terrible places. “I always had the feeling that we were all involved in some gr...

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X's new location feature exposes apparent fraudster accounts posing as Americans, Gaza journalists

A new feature on Elon Musk's X is exposing the truth behind social media accounts across the political spectrum, with account owners apparently misleading followers about where they are posting fro...

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About This Account reveals the scale of X’s foreign troll problem

It’s long been known that X (and Twitter before it) is a major venue for foreign influence campaigns to meddle in American politics. Much of the focus has been on Russian troll farms...

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A month later, Trump has yet to follow through on Canada tariff threat

President Donald Trump has yet to follow through on his threat to impose an additional 10 percent tariff on Canadian imports, four weeks after he halted “all trade negotiations” over an anti-tariff...

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Kyrsten Sinema Took a 15-Hour Psychedelic Trip. Now She’s All in on MAHA.

ASPEN, COLORADO — Kyrsten Sinema’s old enemies on the left better brace themselves: The former senator is now embracing psychedelics and cozying up to MAHA.After infuriating progressives time and a...

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