The scene that unfolded today at a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee was a snapshot of politics in the U.S.

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It has become routine for Trump to spend the weekend posting wildly on social media, and this weekend was no exception.

Trump’s war on the free press is continuing.

After a hearing yesterday about Trump’s Friday ban of CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House campus, very early this morning—I was still awake writing yesterday’s letter—U.S.

Yesterday, William Turton, Avi Asher-Schapiro, Molly Redden, and Kirsten Berg of ProPublica published a blockbuster story reporting that the anti-corruption group of the Federal Bureau of Investigatio...

In 1945, still reeling from World War II, representatives from 50 nations reached back to the U.S.

On September 18, while White House chief of staff Susie Wiles was out of town, Trump suddenly announced he was banning CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House.

For the seventeenth year: Welcome to autumn, fuckheads.

Thousands of people gathered outside the John F.

On September 19, 1676, three hundred and fifty years ago today, Nathaniel Bacon and his followers burned Jamestown, the capital of the Virginia Colony.

According to the American Automobile Association, diesel hit its highest recorded average price today at just above $6.44 per gallon.

In 1761, 55-year-old Benjamin Franklin attended the coronation of King George III and later wrote that he expected the young monarch’s reign would “be happy and truly glorious.” Fifteen years later, i...

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This morning, Justin Elliott, Brett Murphy, Joshua Kaplan, and Alex Mierjeski of ProPublica broke the news that Umar Kremlev, a Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putin, spent hundreds of thousands of...

On Saturday, September 12, Dario Amodei, the chief executive officer of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, published a 3,800-word essay calling for AI companies to slow down their improvem...

On Thursday, in The New Republic, conservative judge J.

Last night was the second night of the Republican midterm convention Trump staged to fire up his base.

“The mayor’s liberal apologists claim that, when the 9/11 attacks happened, he was ‘in elementary school’ and ‘nine years old,’ as if those are reasonable ex...

We woke up today to news that Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militants have taken control of the city and seaport of Mocha and much of the shoreline of the Red Sea near the Bab el-Mandeb strait, another c...

Yesterday, at a White House event honoring those who sacrificed their lives on 9/11, President Donald Trump went off script and claimed he had taken a crew downtown “right after this happened.

On Sunday, Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (Alternativ für Deutschland, or AfD) party won 43.8% of the vote in a legislative election in the small state of Saxony-Anhalt, formerly part of ...

Since yesterday, President Donald J.

Events of Friday, September 4, showed the Trump administration in a nutshell.

On September 5, 1882, workers in New York City celebrated the first Labor Day holiday with a parade.

Election analyst Charlie Cook told Republicans today to “brace themselves” for the midterms.

“Generic State University has been proudly upholding its mission to provide opportunities and build character in all students since its founding. Now, we tur...

A number of pundits, especially Republican pundits, interpreted Trump’s win in 2024 as a permanent political realignment proving that post–World War II liberalism was dead.

Yesterday, by a vote of 5–4, the United States Supreme Court allowed Trump to continue to build his ballroom.

Alex Horton and Tara Copp of the Washington Post reported on Sunday, August 30, that military leaders are warning Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that a plan to continue large-scale operations in Iran ...

One of our founding myths is that of George Washington and the cherry tree.

On Thursday, August 27, Tolouse Olorunnipa reported on the attempts of Republican lawmakers to restrict the ability of naturalized and dual citizens to run for office.

The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom that took place on August 28, 1963, in Washington, D.C., is remembered today primarily because it was the occasion when the final speaker, the Reverend Dr.

This morning, a headline in the Guardian read: “RFK Jr lied in Senate confirmation hearings, newly revealed documents indicate.” The story by Michelle R.