James Boasberg is the chief judge in the District of Columbia. Obama put him on the trial bench. The chief …
The Reddest Big State Just Became a Coin Flip.
Ken Paxton buried John Cornyn in May. Sixty-three-eight to thirty-six-two. The establishment lost. The attorney general got the nomination. Texas …
He Ordered a Kill Switch for an AI Agent in Another Country.
Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on Friday. The press release said kill switch. The fine print said committee. He …
Democrats Treat a Rule Vote Like Treason. The Other Side Treats It Like Weather.
House Democrats do not lose sleep over a member voting no on a messaging bill. They lose their minds when …
Pundits Called the Voters Gross. The Voters Called the Race a Tie.
A mid-September survey of 803 likely Michigan voters asked a question about the presidency, not the Senate, and the living …
He Said the Country Deserved It. Now He Wants a Cut of the Ticket.
Hasan Piker is not a senator. He is not a precinct captain. He is a man with a camera, a …
Don’t Come to This Free world Leader With Free Speech. He Already Has a Word for That.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz told a room of science kids in Berlin on Tuesday not to bring him that phrase. …
Democrats Couldn’t Impeach Him. They Just Counted the Hands.
Tuesday night the House did not convict anyone. It did not hold a trial. It took a motion to table …
They Built a Kingdom on Sand and Oil. The Missiles Found Both.
Saudi Arabia is a country. It has borders, a flag, a seat at the table, and the world’s most important …
State Retires a Dem Senator. But They Forgot the Last Name of the Opposition Really Counts.
Jeanne Shaheen is leaving. That was supposed to be the end of the argument in New Hampshire. A Democrat holds …
The Left Brought the Binders. He Brought the Body Count.
Kash Patel sat in the Hart Building this morning and did the thing Washington hates. He read numbers. Senate Judiciary …
They Wanted a Conversation. The Assignment Was Three Dead Children.
A criminal trial has one job. Did she do it with a mind the law still counts as responsible, or …
He Found a Democrat. It Only Took a Football Picture.
Karl Rove told a private lunch in Austin he is voting for a Democrat. The last time he did that, …
They Took the Check. Now They Don’t Get the Next One.
Kansas City, Monday. The vice president stood up and said the quiet part with a number attached. About 870,000 borrowers …
They Put the Supercomputer Next to the Meter. Then They Wondered Why November Showed Up.
It did not become a midterm issue because America suddenly enrolled in a seminar on large language models. It became …
They Are Not a Quarter of Sweden But They Were Enough.
Sweden is not 25 percent Muslim. Repeat it until the chain email dies. The country does not put religion on …
Parents ‘Intentionally Left Out’ of AI Strategy Discussions Between Microsoft, Left-Leaning Teachers Union, Critics Say
Microsoft teamed up with America’s second-largest teachers union to release a “National AI Safety & Privacy Standard” Wednesday, and critics …
He Lost the Primary. So He Held a Press Conference About Estrogen.
Al Green is leaving. Redistricting ate his old seat. He jumped into another Houston district, lost the runoff in May, …
The Names Were Being Read. The Camera Found Grinning Grifters
Ground Zero on the twenty-fifth anniversary is not a cocktail hour. It is a list. Families read the names. A …
Canadians Feel Real Pain in Stage Four of Trade War
I’d like to offer an update on the Canadian-American trade spat. Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s …
Eleven Votes for a Story. One Vote for Three Kids.
Lindsay Clancy strangled her children in the basement in January 2023. Cora was five. Dawson was three. Callan was eight …
They Needed a Lynching. The Autopsy Said No.
Two members of Congress looked at hanging deaths and reached for 1931. Strange fruit. Racial terror. Modern-day lynchings. A national …
They Built a Midterm Convention Because the Midterm Wouldn’t Build Itself.
Dallas was not a nominating convention. Nobody left with a running mate. They left with a two-day reminder that the …
He Needed the Sentence. The Record Did Not Need the Sentence.
Six days after nineteen men turned airliners into weapons, the president stood at a mosque in Washington and said the …
Five Grand If You Keep the Building. The Fine Print Is the Building.
Wednesday night in Dallas he made it simple. If Republicans keep the House and the Senate on November 3, every …
They Lost the Voters. So Now They Want the Court.
Germany did not hold a national election last Sunday. It held a state election in Saxony-Anhalt, a poor eastern Land …
He Signed Never Forget. Then He Gave the Pen to the Other Team.
Friday at City Hall. Twenty-five years almost to the day. Two executive orders. One makes September 11 a citywide Day …
They Emptied an Island in Nine Hours
Dunkirk took nine days to pull 338,226 soldiers off a beach in 1940. On September 11, 2001, roughly 800 mariners …
He Called the Other One a Grift. Then He Sold You the Repair Shop.
First, Hunter Biden did not launch a stablecoin. He launched a meme coin. Those are not cousins. They are not …
He Billed Grandma for a Catheter She Never Got. Then He Left.
The name on the indictment is Erekle Gugava. Thirty-three. Citizen of Georgia — the country, not the peach state. The …