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Shutdown Shows GOP Is Still Obsessed With Obamacare Repeal
John McCain killing the GOP’s Obamacare repeal bill in 2017. Photo: C-SPAN/Youtube From the very beginning of the current federal…
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Now What for Israel, Gaza, and Trump the Peacemaker?
In an essay at The New Yorker, Palestinian journalist Mohammed R. Mhawish explains the political reality on the ground in…
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The Emptiness of Kamala Harris
Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images It is hard to see what kind of political career Kamala Harris will ever have again.…
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Trump’s White House Ballroom: Plans, Cost, and Who’s Really Paying
Photo: White House Donald Trump may be the only person who’s ever stood before a crowd and boasted, “I’m very…
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OpenAI’s Sora, Meta’s Vibes, and the Sloppy Future of AI
Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Sora Last week, Meta’s newly appointed chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang, who co-founded the AI data-collection and…
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Trump Threatens Federal Workers: Government Shutdown Updates
NPR reports on how the Trump administration is displaying messages on agency websites blaming the Democratic Party for the government…
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Shutting Down the Government Is Thinking Small
What will Chuck Schumer do this time? Photo: Kent Nishimura/Getty Images For Democrats, there are real incentives to let the…
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Trump DOJ Indicts James Comey: Reactions and Analysis
Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig weighs in: Let’s start with the indictment itself, and whatever little can be discerned from it. We’ve…
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What Jimmy Kimmel Said in His First Monologue Back on ABC
Photo: Randy Holmes/Disney/Getty Images Nearly a week after Jimmy Kimmel Live! was taken off the air, its host opened on…
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Jonah Tong, Nolan McLean, and Brandon Sproat Could Save Mets
Jonah Tong on the mound. Photo: Evan Bernstein/Getty Images Three hours before he was scheduled to throw the game’s first…
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