A Wild and Dangerous 2024 Experiment
“We are in this to win it,” No Labels’ chief strategist, Ryan Clancy, told me one morning earlier this month. Clancy and 16 other representatives of the beleaguered…
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In South Carolina, Nikki Haley’s Bill Comes Due
The afternoon before Donald Trump’s blowout win in South Carolina’s primary, Shellie Hargenrader and Julianne Poulnot emerged from a rally for the former president bubbling with righteous conviction.…
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What Nikki Haley (Maybe) Learned in New Hampshire
Sign up for The Decision, a newsletter featuring our 2024 election coverage. “Everybody’s waiting to write my obituary.” This is never a good thing for a candidate to…
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What Is Nikki Haley Even Talking About?
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. N ikki Haley was standing a few feet in front of…
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Trump Voters Are America Too
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. In the last spring of the Obama administration, Michelle Obama was…
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A Warning
Like many reporters, I’ve been operating in Casaubon mode for much of the past eight years, searching for the key to Donald Trump’s mythologies. No single explanation of…
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A Food Fight at the Kids’ Table
Suddenly, it just tumbled out: “Honestly, every time I hear you I feel a little bit dumber for what you say.” That was former South Carolina governor Nikki…
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Trump’s Legal Problems Are Putting the GOP in a Vise
The dilemma for the Republican Party is that Donald Trump’s mounting legal troubles may be simultaneously strengthening him as a candidate for the GOP presidential nomination and weakening…
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How Did America’s Weirdest, Most Freedom-Obsessed State Fall for an Authoritarian Governor?
In the course of a single month this year, the following news reports emanated from Florida: A gun enthusiast in Tampa built a 55-foot backyard pool shaped like…
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Trump Begins His ‘Final Battle’
Former President Donald Trump gripped the CPAC lectern as he workshopped a new sales pitch: “I stand here today, and I’m the only candidate who can make this…
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