Politics

The Social Security benefit cliff is here. Washington is struggling to wake up.

A sudden cut to Social Security checks — long seen as a far-off doomsday — is now an imminent problem for the next president and whomever voters send to Congress in the coming years.The trust fund ...

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Another potential headache for US data centers — Trump tariffs

The Trump administration is weighing a new round of sweeping tariffs on semiconductors, eight people familiar with discussions told POLITICO — despite warnings from tech companies that the move cou...

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'We weren't going to be lectured by some of those sanctimonious Scandinavian countries'

Former Prime Minister John Howard led Australia during two weeks in 2001 that would define the next two decades in Australian politics.Howard’s decision to dispatch Special Air Service forces to pr...

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The Real Reason Trump Wants Economic Sanctions in Iran

Updated at 1:40 p.m. ET on August 26, 2026.For months, President Trump has been unable to bring the conflict with Iran to a close. A massive bombing campaign lost its effectiveness, and U.S. muniti...

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Renaming Lake Ontario is ‘silly talk’: Hochul

GEDDES, New York — Gov. Kathy Hochul used her annual visit to the New York State Fair on Wednesday to reach out to farmers slammed by the Trump administration’s ongoing tariff war with Canada.And s...

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2028 Dem hopeful slaps Trump administration with lawsuit over mail-in voting after major SCOTUS victory

With the November midterms approaching, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is joining attorneys general from 23 states and Washington, D.C., in suing the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) over a Trump-backed ...

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Amid deadly Pennsylvania outbreak, Kennedy blames Biden for decline in measles vax rates

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy on Wednesday said CDC workers have been unable to confirm measles-related deaths in Pennsylvania before blaming the nationwide decline in measles vaccinations on the...

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DOJ blames China for string of hacks targeting federal agencies and hospitals

Chinese hackers carried out a yearslong coordinated campaign to worm their way into federal networks — including those at the Departments of Energy and Health and Human Services, as well as the U.S...

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Meta’s mega-deal could change the game for social media

Meta’s multibillion-dollar court settlements with U.S. states Wednesday set the stage for groundbreaking changes to protections for children across social media — a realm where Congress has tried a...

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CIA chief used Moscow visit to warn Russia against attacks on NATO allies, helping Iran

CIA Director John Ratcliffe warned Russian officials in Moscow this week not to escalate conflict with America’s NATO allies, in particular Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, in response to Moscow’s st...

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The auto industry is at the center of Trump’s trade war. They want a way out.

The auto industry would face an existential crisis if the U.S. and Canada don’t cool their trade war over the next four months. But the sector’s lobbyists are treading cautiously as they try to nud...

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Trump to declare Palestine Action a global terror group

The Trump administration intends to declare Palestine Action, a U.K.-based protest group, as a global terrorist organization. The designation, first reported by The Telegraph, which like POLITICO i...

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Trump and Vance Just Gave Maine Democrat Troy Jackson Two Big Gifts

You’re reading The TNR Blue Book. Get daily scoops, strategy, and developments inside the liberal ideas factory delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for free.Inside Washington In the past few day...

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Politicians in both parties are sprinting away from data centers

The public is turning on data centers. Politicians are trying to keep up.Candidates are fighting to own the messaging as voters increasingly sour on the mass hubs, hammering their foes for backing ...

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What Are Jewish Voters Supposed to Do?

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTubeOn this week’s episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts on the blowing up of trade talks between the Unite...

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The Supreme Court Joins Trump’s Insidious War on Voting Rights

The Supreme Court lifted a lower court’s stay of President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to commandeer state vote-by-mail systems in a 6-3 vote on Monday night. Its explanation for the dec...

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Polarized America united around one issue: the data centers powering the stock market and the biggest tech boom in decades

In rural eastern Nebraska, a technology revolution could rise from fields of corn and soybean in the form of new data centers to power the artificial intelligence boom. But just like aro...

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