Politics

The Democrats’ looming trade battle

Democratic candidates are rallying against President Donald Trump’s tariffs in the final days of the midterms. But behind the scenes, cracks over trade policy are starting to emerge within the part...

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How Trump is trying to save his longtime golf buddy in battleground Arizona

President Donald Trump and his allies are mounting a last-minute mission to shore up his longtime personal friend in a battleground Arizona district.GOP groups have spent more than $22 million to b...

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The Oppo Mastermind Who Could Take Down Roger Marshall

Early in September, a New York Times investigation rocked the Kansas Senate race. The incumbent Republican Sen. Roger Marshall, the paper revealed, had sued some 700 patients over his previous, dec...

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Vivek Ramaswamy’s Ad Shows the Limits of Trump-Style Politics

It’s tempting to say that Vivek Ramaswamy’s ad deploying the estranged mother of his opponent in the Ohio governor’s race is the worst sort of ends-justify-the-means politics.But the ends, in this ...

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Poll: Trump wants the midterms to be about him. That could backfire.

President Donald Trump is asking voters to “pretend” he is on the ballot. That might backfire.New results from The POLITICO Poll show that Democratic midterm voters are more motivated to oppose the...

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Tech giants target spending on Florida’s state-level elections

TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Florida policymakers have aggressively pushed to regulate Big Tech companies.Now, major corporations like Google, Meta, Amazon and Anthropic are spending in key state legisla...

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The Stakes of Brazil’s Presidential Election

Brazilians will head to the polls on Sunday in one of the most consequential presidential elections of the last decade. The run-off election will determine the future of the largest d...

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How to ban gerrymandering when the Supreme Court is stacked against you

American elections aren’t what they used to be: Thanks to relentless, politically driven gerrymandering, fewer and fewer congressional seats are truly competitive. Millions of Americ...

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Huckabee expresses doubt about viability of Board of Peace plans

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee is questioning whether the Board of Peace can deliver on President Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza without more planning and resources from the U.S. gover...

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Nate Silver Explodes In Foul-Mouthed Tirade After Fake Polling Firm Pulls Off Humiliating Hoax

Nate Silver Explodes In Foul-Mouthed Tirade After Fake Polling Firm Pulls Off Humiliating Hoax Political polling guru Nate Silver unleashed a profanity-laced tirade after a polling o...

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A Congressional Race That’s a Referendum on the War

John Quillin thought America’s Middle Eastern wars were safely in the past. He spent two decades in the Navy, enlisting not long before the September 11 attacks and retiring as a chief petty office...

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The 2026 election could reshape healthcare

New Yorkers march in support of universal healthcare this summer. | LightRocket via Getty Images Americans are furious about the state of our healthcare system. A recent KFF poll ...

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Trump’s midterm promises come with a catch: The GOP has to win

President Donald Trump is touring the country, sprinkling his stops with parochial promises of new manufacturing plants, settlements for veterans and legislation to help farmers.But there’s a catch...

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Joly, Ford, Housefather among Canadians named in U.S. embassy 'fact sheet' alleging election interference

The “fact sheet” published by U.S. Embassy in Ottawa listing quotes from Canadian politicians that it claims “openly describe plans to influence American politics” has been labelled “not credible ...

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Trump presses Ramaswamy to keep running controversial ad featuring Acton’s estranged mother

President Donald Trump on Thursday encouraged Vivek Ramaswamy to continue running a widely controversial ad featuring the estranged mother of his Democratic opponent in the Ohio governor’s race, Am...

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New Fuel Rules May Send American Auto Jobs Overseas

Reclassification of Passenger Vehicles The latest regulatory update from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is creating unexpected and massive headaches for domestic manufactur...

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Canada tells diplomats to steer clear of US midterm candidates

OTTAWA — The Canadian government is urging its diplomats to avoid engaging with candidates in the U.S. midterm elections, as the Trump administration accuses the country of meddling in campaigns ac...

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America’s death penalty: why executions are rising again

daily_creativity/Shutterstock After two decades of decline, the number of executions in the United States began rising sharply again in 2025. Last year, 47 people were put to death – the hi...

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“The Diplomat” reminds us that political couples used to be smart

Say what you will about the first and second couples at the heart of “The Diplomat” – and by now they’ve generated plenty of gossip fodder – but nobody would question the resilience of their unions...

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Calley Means, top MAHA ally, resigns from Trump administration

Calley Means, senior adviser to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., resigned on Thursday over frustrations that the Make America Healthy Again agenda had stalled inside the White House.Means wa...

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Will Elon Musk Be the October Surprise?

A version of the below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and artic...

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