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New York, 25 Years Later
Photographs by Sasha Arutyunova Like most New Englanders of a certain generation, my parents viewed New York City with distrust. They associated their neighbor to the south with “The Bronx Is Burning,…
7h ago
All the Places Trump Was on 9/11
Updated at 4:30 p.m. ET on September 9, 2026 Where were you on 9/11? Every American old enough to remember the day has an answer to that question. President Trump has several. At a ceremony honoring f…
9h ago
The DSA’s Problem Isn’t ‘Media Training’
American socialists are convinced that they have a media-training problem. In the past year, members of the Democratic Socialists of America, the country’s largest leftist organization, have won elect…
2d ago
The Hasan Piker Question
Like late-summer humidity, Hasan Piker hangs heavy over the discourse. At a rally on Monday, Vice President Vance brought up the hard-left streamer in an attempt to paint the Democratic Senate candida…
6d ago
The Air Marshals Keeping Watch On Eric Swalwell
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. On August 8, former Representative Eric Swalwell boarded a United Airlines flight from Frankfurt, Germany, to…
Sep 2
Inside a Conservative Operation to Hijack Your Social-Media Feed
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. If you’re short on cash, there is someone in Riga, Latvia, who can help. “You can literally make 100k a month…
Sep 2
The Guard That Won’t Be Changing
Many Democrats of a certain age took the same message from the party’s 2024 debacle: Voters are sick of the old guard and craving younger, more aggressive leaders. Better to retire on your own terms t…
Sep 2
How the Right Could Actually End Birthright Citizenship
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Early last year, a woman named Liza and her husband were busy preparing for the birth of their child. On top o…
Aug 31
Which Dan Sullivan Will These Dan Sullivans Vote For?
What in the Dan Sullivan is going on in Alaska? Senator Daniel S. Sullivan is running for reelection. Daniel J. Sullivan is one of his challengers. And former Anchorage Mayor Daniel A. Sullivan recent…
Aug 30
Not American Enough
For Carlos Alemán, the pinnacle of the dozen years since he became a U.S. citizen was the night in 2020 when he was elected to serve on the city council of Homewood, Alabama. One of the lowest moments…
Aug 27
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. munition…
Aug 26
Trump Plans to Buy Midterm Ads About His Own Record
President Trump gathered his top political advisers in the Oval Office early this month to solve a problem of riches: how to spend his super PAC’s $400 million political war chest with fewer than 100…
Aug 26
ICE Has Quietly Changed Its Deadly-Force Rule
ICE quietly enacted new rules this month that will keep officers involved in deadly-force incidents—such as firing a gun and using a choke hold—off the streets until the completion of an investigation…
Aug 25
Darline Graham Is Not Her Brother
It’s something that happens so often in politics that there’s a name for it: widow’s succession. Dozens of times over the past century, women have filled a seat previously occupied by their late husba…
Aug 25
Yet Another Purge in Washington
Before becoming a regular travel companion of President Trump’s, the nation’s top housing-finance official and the nation’s top intelligence official for one summer, Bill Pulte was a meme-stock celebr…
Aug 22
Ossoff’s ‘Natalie’ Moment
How many words does it take to trigger MAGA world? Three, it turns out. When Senator Jon Ossoff of Georgia said at a rally on Sunday that President Trump wants to “travel with Natalie”—implying an unt…
Aug 21
The White House Freak-Out Over Natalie Harp
You are reading this story only because the White House didn’t want you to. I’ll explain. This past Sunday, Senator Jon Ossoff of Georgia—who has become quite good at delivering viral campaign sound b…
Aug 21
An Unsettling Glimpse Into the GOP’s Future
Normally, when a primary candidate finishes with 10.5 percent of the vote, it is a clear signal of their irrelevance. James Fishback finished third in Tuesday’s Florida Republican gubernatorial prima…
Aug 20
President Trump Has a Pet-Project Docket at the National Parks
President Trump gets what he wants, when he wants it, from the National Park Service. One and a half million dollars to replace brick pavers in Lafayette Park, across from the White House? Contracting…
Aug 20
Alan Dershowitz Won’t Forget What Larry David Did to Him
Here it is, August on Martha’s Vineyard, and Alan Dershowitz has barely been heard from. Well, that’s not exactly true. He has been heard from on many topics—because Dershowitz is who he is, and prett…
Aug 18
Trump Is Putting His Face on Everything
We Americans remember our presidents in all sorts of ways, with monuments and statues, on coins and street signs. Another thing we do is wait—we wait until a president is safely out of office, or dead…
Aug 18
A Democrat in Name Only
Photographs by KC McGinnis Somewhere along the county road between Independence and Manchester, I lost Rob Sand. This had been a distinct possibility when I agreed to join the 44-year-old Democratic c…
Aug 15
Hunger Games, MAGA Style
The semiquincentennial events that President Trump has personally directed have been a celebration of his very particular version of America. The bloody UFC fight on the White House lawn was followed…
Aug 13