2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (494+ words) Donald Trump’s once-impressive nickname game has seriously deteriorated in recent years, which is why you don’t hear anyone else calling Mitch McConnell “Broken Old Crow” or taunting Jon Ossoff with calls of “Os(jerk!)off.” So it’s a bit surprising…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (332+ words) In 2023, McKee closed the Washington Bridge, a vital link that carries Interstate 195 over the Seekonk River and connects Providence to its eastern suburbs and the south coast of Massachusetts. During the summer, it also carries traffic bound for Cape Cod....

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (215+ words) To understand Donald Trump’s epic (in length, not content) speech on the first night of the Midterm Republican Convention nobody but him wanted to hold, you need to appreciate that the president really does believe the stuff he says about…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (502+ words) New York Magazine With 54 days to go until the midterm elections, things are looking less than hot for Republicans hoping to maintain full control of Congress. In the Senate, the latest analysis sees the balance shifting to 50 seats per party,…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (745+ words) New York Magazine If you happen to be a college-football fan and you watch the sport on any of the ubiquitous Disney-owned ABC-ESPN outlets, you are probably aware of a piece of congressional legislation called the Protect College Sports Act....

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (466+ words) If you don’t trust the federal government anymore, you’re not alone. A newly released poll provides a glimpse into how Americans view information provided to them by the federal government — and the results are far from heartening. A joint Associated…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (235+ words) New York Magazine On Wednesday morning, Hunter Biden posted to his Substack in a wistful mood, recalling a “warm summer afternoon” when he was 17 spent learning from his father’s operatives around their Delaware pool about “how power is actually won....

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (650+ words) New York Magazine New Hampshire, much like Ohio, Iowa, and Florida, is a onetime red-hot battleground state that has recently become a bit more predictable. Only once since 1988 have Republicans carried the Granite State in presidential elections. But it has…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (753+ words) President Trump is telling iffy 9/11 stories again. On Tuesday, he took part in the Tunnel to Towers Foundation’s Steel Across America tour, delivering remarks from the Ellipse in Washington, D.C., in honor of the upcoming 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks....

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (813+ words) nymag.com The Beltway media loves to frame differences on the left as a “struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party.” That’s evident in an Axios piece looking ahead to a post-midterm scenario in which Hakeem Jeffries seeks to…...