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American Intelligence Is in Crisis. Where’s Congress?

The intelligence community needs direction, oversight, and empowerment from the legislative branch.

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Trump Lost on Birthright Citizenship. But He’s Winning the Immigration Wars.

SCOTUS rejected his brazen constitutional gambit—but cleared the way for potentially the largest revocation of legal immigration status in American…

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Today’s birthright citizenship ruling wasn't a win for constitutionalism. It was a warning.

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Sure, it’s fascistic. More importantly, it’s incompetent.

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This Texas Poll Has Tim Miller Feeling Hopeful

Tim Miller recaps his appearance on Deadline: White House with Nicole Wallace—discussing new polls for the Texas Senate race, the Supreme Court's…

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Sam Stein and Brian Tyler Cohen

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BREAKING: SCOTUS Upholds Birthright Citizenship, Releases Other Major Decisions | Morning Shots

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Will Saletan gives his take on Sen.

Jun 30 • Will Saletan

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Trump Will Put a Psycho on the Court—If He Gets a Chance

Sarah, Tim, and Andrew Egger (filling in for JVL) discuss:

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David French: The Birthright Citizenship Ruling Should've Been 9-0

SCOTUS did manage, for now, to stop Trump from recreating the American republic, but four of the court's justices believe that the fundamental law of…

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Trump’s Obsession With Executive Power Will Cost Him

After all, the next Democratic president will have all the same powers.

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The American Revolution Was So Much Weirder Than You Think

Alongside the Enlightenment reason we associate with the founding there were mystics, occultists, and conspiracy theorists.

Jun 30 • Nicole Penn

The Wheels Are Coming Off Putin’s War

Fuel shortages, military unrest, and a strangled Crimea while the Kremlin dictator’s attempts to project confidence do nothing of the sort.

Jun 30 • Cathy Young

Who Gets to Claim 1776?

If the republic is to last another 250 years, Americans need to see themselves in its origin story.

Jun 30 • Lindsay M. Chervinsky

Ben Shapiro Hired a Debater to Fight Groypers. It Backfired Badly.

The internet is a vicious place, even when…er, *especially* when…you’re fighting vicious people.

Jun 29 • Will Sommer

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John Dickerson: When the Media Helps Rewrite Reality

The most powerful person in the world repeatedly creates his own narrative about a news event despite what we can see and hear with our own eyes and our…

Jun 29 • Tim Miller and John Dickerson

Pay Her. Pay That Woman Her Money.

The Supreme Court’s version of balance.

Jun 29 • Jonathan V. Last

Pay No Attention to the War Behind the Curtain

This is how the world ends, not with a bang, but with a wimp.

Jun 29 • William Kristol, Andrew Egger, and Jim Swift

Mega-Prison Politics

A new generation of right-wing outsiders is triumphing across Latin America.

Jun 29 • Michael Albertus

Yes, the Cuts to USAID Have Killed

Elon Musk dismisses the human toll of the Trump administration’s gutting U.S. foreign aid—but it’s real and it’s measurable.

Jun 29 • Progress & Development

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Charting the Democrats as they try to emerge from the political wilderness. A twice-weekly newsletter from Lauren Egan.

Huddled Masses

A newsletter by Adrian Carrasquillo chronicling immigration in America.

False Flag

Unparalleled reporting and insights into the online culture and communities that now run our country. A twice-weekly newsletter from Will Sommer.

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Dems Bet Trump’s Numbers are Gassed, No Matter What

The president hopes the ceasefire with Iran and falling gas prices will help him politically. History suggests otherwise.

Jun 28 • Lauren Egan

These Are the Medical Miracles Trump Could Take Away

The story of a life-changing breakthrough and the federally funded research that made it possible.

Jun 28 • Jonathan Cohn

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This Reporter Calls Trump—And He Answers! (w/ Ed Luce)

Mona Charen and FT columnist Ed Luce dig into Giorgia Meloni's public dressing down of Trump, the UK's political chaos, and the fallout from Trump's…

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