Politics

The good, the bad and the unruly from over two dozen candidate debates

With less than two weeks until Election Day, most statewide debates have come and gone. Democrats tried to paint their Republican opponents into corners over loyalty to President Donald Trump, and ...

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MORNING GLORY: Trump must go to war on the airwaves to stop Democrats’ blue-wave blitz

Should President Donald Trump deliver a primetime address next week with the avowed purpose of impacting the elections nationwide?Yes. Absolutely yes.President Trump is often the best proponent of ...

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How the Consulting Class Is Eating the Democratic Party

Your phone buzzes with a frantic text message. “DEMOCRACY IS ON THE LINE.” It’s not the first time you’ve gotten a fundraising text like this from the Democratic Party and its candidates. Nor the f...

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A Philosopher Makes the Case to Call Trump Evil

On the evening of March 15, 2025, while government lawyers haggled in a D.C. courtroom, three airplanes delivered 238 chained prisoners to the Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador. Better...

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Vivek Ramaswamy’s Vile Attack Ad Is Trumpism in a Nutshell

President Donald Trump won Ohio by 11 points in 2024. Vivek Ramaswamy, the GOP’s candidate for governor in the Buckeye State, was trailing his Democratic opponent, Amy Acton, by seven points in a M...

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Trump put this Hispanic district in play. His deportations are complicating the pitch.

CLIFTON, New Jersey — Donald Trump’s victory in this heavily Hispanic corner of New Jersey gave Republicans hope they could turn his gains into a lasting foothold.Those hopes have all but vanished ...

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After the Apocalypse

Photographs by Lynsey AddarioI.We drifted past abandoned drilling platforms, ghostly remnants of better days. Cormorants perched on the metal bars of broken oil rigs, drying their wings in the sun....

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Fox News’ midterm fear mongering grows increasingly desperate

Fox News’ closing argument for the final midterm elections of Donald Trump’s political reign is increasingly frantic. The network promised its viewers prosperity. With early voting underway in most...

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Mamdani to campaign with Hochul, cementing a fruitful alliance

ALBANY, New York — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani will hit the campaign trail with Gov. Kathy Hochul — the democratic socialist’s first in-person appearances to boost the moderate Democrat’s re...

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How a fake pollster may have moved some 2026 elections

A new company whose polls had influenced campaign decisions and helped shape the midterms narrative admitted that it was faking its polling data on Tuesday night, setting off a firestorm in the ele...

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Trump endorses Netanyahu for reelection

President Donald Trump on Sunday endorsed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his reelection bid.In a post to Truth Social, the president applauded Netanyahu for his continued support of t...

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Peter Thiel breaks with Trump over Iran war: ‘We should not have done it’

Billionaire technology investor Peter Thiel said he’s skeptical of the U.S. war with Iran and does not believe the United States should have launched it, putting the major Republican donor at odds ...

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House Republicans subpoena New Jersey for noncitizen voter records

House Republicans have subpoenaed New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s administration for records on the state’s noncitizen voter snafu, making good on a threat they leveled when the accidental registr...

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Ilhan Omar believes Trump raid on home was meant to 'intimidate and scare people' from voting

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., told MS NOW Wednesday night that she believes the raid on her home was to "intimidate and scare people" away from voting in the midterm elections.Omar's home in Washington...

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Nebraska independent could decide which party controls the Senate

The biggest question heading into November's midterms is whether, once all votes have been counted, Democrats or Republicans will win control of Congress. The final answer, though, might ultimately...

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Travel writer Paul Theroux explores Canadian family roots and the 'mood of betrayal' about the U.S.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — If only Americans better understood Canada and its people. That’s a thought many Canadians have shared in recent years, especially as the widening trade spat has disrupted cross...

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Australia extends ban on KPMG federal contracts until 2027

CANBERRA — The Australian government has extended a ban on awarding contracts to KPMG until March 2027, after an independent review found the professional services firm still needed to prove it had...

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Democrats gear up for offensive against Trump’s Treasury

Democratic lawmakers spent the past two years in the minority clashing with President Donald Trump’s top financial officials. If they take back power in Congress after next month’s midterms, expect...

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Democrats are eyeing a John Fetterman challenge. Chris Deluzio is already laying the groundwork.

BEAVER FALLS, Pennsylvania — At a packed town hall in a deep-red Pennsylvania county, Tod Marion stood up to ask Democratic Rep. Chris Deluzio about his plans to make Congress an institution that n...

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Space Force scrambles as Musk’s SpaceX retires its major rocket

SpaceX's plans to retire its most popular rocket could jeopardize the United States’ ability to launch military satellites — a plight compounded by the Pentagon’s dependence on Elon Musk's company....

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The Pentagon is quietly building an elite new tech sabotage agency

The Pentagon has spent months quietly building an elite new tech agency to help covertly disrupt and sabotage foreign technology programs considered threats to American military superiority.Neither...

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