ABBA is requesting that former President Donald Trump stop using their music for his presidential campaign, after the group became aware of unauthorized use of its songs at…
Read more ABBA tells Trump campaign to stop using their musicSign up for The Decision, a newsletter featuring our 2024 election coverage. First impressions stick. After a big story hits, the initial conclusions can turn out to be…
Read more How Hur Misled the Country on Biden’s MemoryDonald Trump has long detested Barack Obama and sought to present himself as the opposite of his presidential predecessor in every way. But in his takeover of the…
Read more Trump Repeats Obama’s MistakeThe story Donald Trump tells about himself—and to himself—has always been one of domination. It runs through the canonical texts of his personal mythology. In The Art of…
Read more Why Republican Politicians Do Whatever Trump SaysNot very long ago, the harshest thing Nikki Haley would say about Donald Trump was that “chaos follows him”—a sort of benign jab that creatively avoids causation and…
Read more ‘The Most Entertaining Dead-Cat Bounce in History’If Donald Trump has benefited from one underappreciated advantage this campaign season, it might be that no one seems to be listening to him very closely anymore. This…
Read more You Should Go to a Trump RallyTwo days before the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, the Trump campaign’s fake electors plot to block then-President-elect Joe Biden’s ascent to the Oval Office faced…
Read more “They go directly to the intent”: Experts say new tapes give Jack Smith “powerful” Trump evidenceA press release that President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign issued last week offered a revealing window into his advisers’ thinking about how he might overcome widespread discontent with…
Read more How Biden Might Recover“Anybody ever hear of Hannibal Lecter?” former President Donald Trump asked last night. “He was a nice fellow. But that’s what’s coming into our country right now.” The…
Read more ‘Nothing Is Going to Stop Donald Trump’People near me at the Iowa State Fair were frantic. “Do you see him yet?” they panted. “Do you think he’ll come out into the crowd to talk?”…
Read more The GOP Primary Is a Field of Broken DreamsAs Ron DeSantis kicked off his presidential campaign last week, Donald Trump was asked during a golf tournament about meeting the Florida governor on the debate stage. “They say he’s not a…
Read more Will Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis Ever Meet on the Debate Stage?Depending on whom you ask in politics, the sudden advances in artificial intelligence will either transform American democracy for the better or bring about its ruin. At the…
Read more Political Campaigns May Never Be the SameNews that CNN will hold a town hall with former President Donald Trump in New Hampshire next Wednesday came as a surprise on multiple fronts. For one, Trump, who repeatedly dismissed CNN (among…
Read more Why CNN Gave Trump a Prime-Time Town Hall—And Why Trump AcceptedLet’s say you’re a politician in a close race and your opponent suffers a stroke. What do you do? If you are Mehmet Oz running as a Republican…
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