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The Empty Confessions of JD Vance
[ad_1] Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images In Augustine’s Confessions, the saint speaks of his turn to God in language so potent that it has reverberated…
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Cornyn’s Nasty Attack on Paxton May Haunt Texas Republicans
[ad_1] Photo-Illustration: Cornyn Lonestar Victory Fund In many years of observing politics, I’ve seen a lot of nasty, negative ads between primary opponents who…
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Trump’s State of the Union Was a Bloated Awards Show
[ad_1] Photo: Kenny Holston/Getty Images When we heard that Donald Trump’s 2026 State of the Union Address would break his own record for the…
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All About the White House UFC Fight on Trump’s Birthday
[ad_1] When The Wall Street Journal asked White what connects MAGA and the UFC, he gave a one-word answer: “Testosterone.” Okay, sure. Also, Trump…
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How Justice Alito’s Retirement Might Upend the Midterms
[ad_1] Photo: Chip Somodevilla//Getty Images This week, there’s been a lot of attention focused on the U.S. Supreme Court, thanks to its stunning decision…
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Is Trump Going to Get Into Heaven? Live Updates
[ad_1] Photo: Intelligencer; Photos: Getty Images Does Heaven exist? And if so, is Donald Trump going to get in? In the last year, President…
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Big AI Isn’t Waiting for the Backlash
[ad_1] Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images Meta’s hard and early pivot into artificial intelligence hasn’t exactly gone as planned, with tens of billions of…
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Talarico Contests MAGA’s Conquest of American Christianity
[ad_1] Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon with his Christian nationalist mentor Doug Wilson. Photo: @PeteHegseth/X At the annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington on…
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Trump May Have Already Signed His Last Big Piece of Legislation
[ad_1] Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images Hard-core conservative Republicans have been agitating lately for a follow-up to last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. A…
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Revoking Climate-Change Regulation May Be the Worst Thing Trump Has Done
[ad_1] Photo: Joseph Sohm/Getty Images Sometimes the forces that lead to major social and political change take years to mature before they become public…
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How Much Ground Has Trump Lost on Immigration in the Polls?
[ad_1] Photo: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images There’s not much question that the brutal immigration-enforcement tactics on display in Minneapolis and elsewhere have roiled U.S.…
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How Political Parties Die
[ad_1] Who needs a right-wing minor-party demagogue like Nigel Farage when you have Donald Trump? Photo: Henry Nicholls/AFP/Getty Images If you aren’t too distracted…
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Georgia Gubernatorial Ad Bashes ‘Judas’ Who Betrayed Trump
[ad_1] Georgia’s Republican secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is eternally a MAGA target. Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images We’re all used to negative campaign ads,…
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The Bad Bunny Super Bowl 2026 Controversy, Explained
[ad_1] When asked why the NFL chose Bad Bunny at an October 22, 2025, press conference, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell answered, “He’s one of…
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What the New Epstein Files Say About Trump: Updates
[ad_1] Here’s a brief overview of their friendship and falling-out, and how Trump’s political career intersected with Epstein’s prosecution. 1980s to Early 2000s: Trump…
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2026 Government Shutdown: Latest News and Impact on ICE
[ad_1] Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images One of the most confusing federal-government shutdowns in living memory began at midnight on January 31 when the stopgap-spending…
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Texas Special-Election Shocker Signals Big Trouble for GOP
[ad_1] Photo: Desiree Rios/The New York Times/Redux It’s definitely possible to overreact to special-election results. These episodic contests, often far downballot, tend to attract…
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What Critics Are Saying About the Melania Documentary
[ad_1] Writes William Thomas at Empire: In 1935, Adolf Hitler commissioned director Leni Riefenstahl to make Triumph Of The Will, a highly nationalistic and likely…
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Will the Melania Movie Flop? Ticket Sales & What We Know
[ad_1] The Amazon founder has been cozying up to Donald Trump for some time, from killing a Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris to…
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Making the Melania Movie Sounds Like a Nightmare
[ad_1] Days before its premiere, things are looking rough for the Melania Trump documentary. It sounds like the film is on track to flop…