Theodore Schleifer • April 17, 2024

The Shanahan Persuasion Campaign

Three weeks ago, R.F.K. Jr. chose the well-connected (and very wealthy) but largely unknown Nicole Shanahan as his running mate. Now, top Democratic donors and operatives are debating whether to use their friends in Silicon Valley to get oppo on her—or ask them to pitch her on an “off-ramp.”

Julia Ioffe • April 15, 2024

Bibi Stings

Biden, Blinken, and Sullivan aren’t the only ones losing patience with the Israeli prime minister. The Israeli national security establishment has its own profound gripes and concerns, too.

Tara Palmeri • April 12, 2024

Midnight at Mar-a-Lago

With the clock ticking, the abortion issue has reshuffled Trump’s V.P. deck.

Tina Nguyen • April 10, 2024

Ronna in No Man’s Land

A character study on the evolution and exile of a moderate-turned-election denying MAGA loyalist, and the vicissitudes of life outside Trump’s economic orbit.

Theodore Schleifer • April 9, 2024

Tim Scott’s V.P. Edge & Trump’s Big Money Push

News and murmurs from the Mar-a-Lago money circuit: Larry Ellison’s involvement in the Trump veepstakes, John Paulson’s billionaire donor bash, and the anti-Biden progressive group trying to get serious.

Peter Hamby • April 8, 2024

No Labels, Mo’ Problems

There was never any constituency for the bipartisan brain poison that Nancy Jacobson was selling donors. But the No Labels gambit was also doomed to fail because it was fundamentally misaligned with the guiding north star of any politician: self-interest.

Tina Nguyen • April 4, 2024

Trump’s Transition Circus Heads to Palm Beach

As two competing D.C. factions attempt to woo Trump over the right to staff his putative government, the former president is already planning on moving his transition team to Mar-a-Lago—inciting aspiring hires to fight tooth and nail for their jobs. (Sound familiar?)

Julia Ioffe • April 2, 2024

McCaul to Action

A bracing conversation with Michael McCaul, the G.O.P. head of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, on the complex task of convincing House Republicans to help save Ukraine.

Peter Hamby • April 2, 2024

How to Fake It in America

A candid conversation with Sasha Issenberg, author of “The Lie Detectives,” about the new frontlines of the disinformation arms race, how Biden can win the meme wars, and why ivory tower panic obscures the distinction between internet bullshit and genuine threats.

Tara Palmeri • March 29, 2024

Trump Fundraising Fears & The R.N.C. Horror Show

The R.N.C.’s post-Ronna mass-firing, coupled with Biden’s ability to haul $25 million in a single night, frame the latest anxieties within Trumpworld and the donor elite.

Tina Nguyen • March 27, 2024

Johnson Melancholia

Republican hardliners, outraged over yet another vote in which they were sidelined, are slowly capitulating to the reality that their motion-to-vacate threat has lost its oomph—and that Speaker Mike Johnson isn’t speaking for them anymore.

Julia Ioffe • March 26, 2024

Putin’s Theater of the Absurd

As ordinary Russians mourn Friday’s deadly terror attack in the city, the country’s leadership has activated its propaganda apparatus to direct suspicion toward the usual suspects: Washington, Ukraine, and its “Western masters.”

Peter Hamby • March 25, 2024

Trump V.P. Red Flags & Biden’s Inside Edge

Exclusive new data from Echelon Insights, in partnership with Puck, identifies downballot enthusiasm for Democrats, more trouble for TikTok, and a veepstakes conundrum for Trump.

Tara Palmeri • March 22, 2024

There’s Something About Katie

News and whispers from Capital Grille: the sotto voce blame game for prepping Katie Britt, more No Labels schadenfreude, a Cotton vs. Ernst leadership tiff, and Joe Manchin’s next news cycle.

Tina Nguyen • March 20, 2024

Lee’s Rebellion & Senate TikTok Gymnastics

Fresh intel on the latest micro-dramas roiling Capitol Hill: How Republicans are working through their feelings about a TikTok ban, and the hardliner plot to intervene in Johnson’s budget legislation blitzkrieg.