And cutting deals with sketchy characters along the way

The fate of Ken Paxton, the conservative Texas firebrand, could decide whether Republicans keep control of the Senate.

Mr. Paxton, the Texas attorney general now running for the U.S. Senate, was accused of abusing the power of his office to protect a campaign donor. He was acquitted on all counts.

Paulina Borsook's masterpiece, Cyberselfish, will be republished on September 17, 2026, with a foreword by Gil Durán of The Nerd Reich.

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President Trump has harnessed agencies across the government to curtail press freedoms, a sweeping campaign that free speech advocates say will have lasting effects.

McClatchy laid off 13 journalists at the Lexington Herald-Leader, a majority of its reporters, as a part of its deep, nationwide layoffs.

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Every chapter, in reading order, from Book 1 to Book 3.

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The Trump administration has deported thousands of immigrants to countries where they have no ties. Dozens were on the latest flight, to the Central African Republic.

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The U.S. is building an archipelago of overseas detention sites where deportees are often held indefinitely without charge.

The attorney general's crypto decisions raise serious ethical questions

How Mark Zuckerberg is selling out our past, our present, and our future

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The New York media insider has 100 hours of interviews with the dead sex offender. But the Epstein files also reveal an intimate 20-year history of emails between the two men that seems far more than ...

Thestaggering revelationsof memos documenting Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's discussions of surreptitiously recording President Donald Trump and of the 25th Amendment has raised fresh questi...

Who knows what the FBI could have uncovered had it been allowed to investigate and had Trump not bullied the press, Democrats and even the Justice Department into submission?

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In Minnesota yesterday, close Trump ally Mike Lindell, the former chief executive officer of MyPillow, lost the Republican primary for governor to Republican state house speaker Lisa Demuth.

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Giving my Michael Wolff piece a restack, because he’s still sitting on 100 hours of interviews with Epstein that contain damning information about Donald Trump. https://ellieleonard.substack.com/p/th...

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The curious case of Guren “Bobby” Zhou shows the ease with which investors with shady backgrounds and unknown motivations can funnel money to the president.