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WASHINGTON

The Trump team, already reveling in their likely victory, appears intent on burying DeSantis.

The DeSantis Walk of Shame

Imagining the political options for the former wunderkind candidate after Iowa and New Hampshire.
Tara Palmeri • January 5, 2024
Tina Nguyen • January 4, 2024
Tucker in the Rye
I wasn’t on the Tucker love/hate spectrum, myself, but as someone who’d worked for him and then moved on to more “mainstream” political reporting jobs at Vanity Fair, Politico and then Puck, I was fascinated with his metamorphosis.
On the evolution of Tucker Carlson, from his startup origins to Fox News exile and his decision to go solo. Adapted from the forthcoming book ‘The MAGA Diaries.’
Julia Ioffe • January 4, 2024
From Beirut to Jerusalem
Israel’s national security minister (and convicted extremist) Itamar Ben-Gvir and finance minister Bezalel Smotrich are both openly advocating for the mass resettlement of Palestinians.
After a strategic assassination, is Bibi’s government finally heeding Biden’s warnings to wrap up the most intense phase of fighting and pursue a more targeted approach?
Ever since Hamas insurgents attacked Israel on Oct 7, the collective left has been watching with bewilderment as a stunning divide has emerged among its ranks.
Abby Livingston • January 3, 2024
Gen Z House Fault Lines & TikTok Geopolitics
Assessing a complex, nightmarish, and occasionally tragic generational divide within Democratic House offices.
U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Nikki Haley, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations in the Oval Office on October 9, 2018.
Tara Palmeri • December 29, 2023
2024, According to the Experts
Lindsey Graham, Chris Sununu, Debbie Dingell, Ritchie Torres, Steve Schmidt, Roger Stone, and many other experts of varying stripes explain what’s going down next year.
The fact that Republicans are still trying to find an impeachable offense speaks to the convoluted nature of the inquiry’s origins.
Tina Nguyen • December 28, 2023
The Biden Impeachment Starter Marriage
Predictably, the multipronged Biden impeachment inquiry looks to be turning up duds. But the Republicans I talk to aren’t all that worried or embarrassed. This whole thing may have been less of a boobie trap than a dress rehearsal for giving the old man hell.
The Mariupol bombardment was relentless, and it focused mostly on civilian infrastructure, on hospitals, schools, theaters, and residential buildings.
Julia Ioffe • December 27, 2023
20 Days in Mariupol
In conversation with Mstyslav Chernov, the Ukrainian videographer, about his Oscar shortlisted documentary, capturing the siege of Mariupol, the horrors of the invasion, and when and how the war ever ends.
Peter Hamby • December 26, 2023
God and Man and MAGA
In conversation with Tina Nguyen, author of ‘The MAGA Diaries,’ about the evolution of the modern conservative media machine, from Milton and Mises to Tucker and Trump.
The never ending Kevin McCarthy vs. Matt Gaetz feud is playing out in proxy fights across several states.
Abby Livingston • December 26, 2023
McCarthy’s Last Gasp & Dem Civil War
The 2024 election will be one of the ugliest in history. Will party infighting at the House race level exacerbate the chaos?
Chris Christie’s inner circle hasn’t yet had the talk with the candidate, according to a donor, but will likely do so soon.
Tara Palmeri • December 21, 2023
A Christie Intervention & Manchin’s Pageant Daughter
The latest plot twists and bickering as all roads lead to Iowa: Manchin’s grasps for relevance, Nikki Haley’s potential fallback plan, and the movement to vote Christie off the island.
Speaker Mike Johnson can only afford to lose two votes next year if he wants to pass bills without relying on Democrats.
Tina Nguyen • December 21, 2023
The G.O.P. Hardliners Who Stole Christmas
As budget armageddon approaches and Ukraine funding runs out, Republicans on the Hill are increasingly divided about whether to force a compromise with Democrats, to ritually sacrifice Johnson, or to succumb to their own impossible purity tests.
The question is whether Mike Johnson can keep up this fundraising pace over the coming year, or if this was simply an outlier.
Abby Livingston • December 20, 2023
Johnson’s Haul & The Johns’ Competition
Notes on the latest surprising twists in the congressional fundraising race.
Even if Congress reaches a deal early next year and aid begins to flow again, the days of a new Ukraine supplemental getting passed every couple months are long gone.
Julia Ioffe • December 20, 2023
Ukraine’s Money Cliff
With Congress stiff-arming Zelensky, and military funds running out, experts and members of the administration worry that, long-term, without additional aid, “the Ukrainians are doomed.”
Will young voters who are currently sour on Biden vote for him anyway in 2024 because they understand the stakes of the election?
Peter Hamby • December 19, 2023
Biden’s Reversal of Fortune
Yes, Gen Z has soured on the 81-year-old president. But Democratic strategists see a “reverse coattails” effect emerging in the data: an opportunity for the White House to tap local outrage to set up a national win.
Harvard president Claudine Gay, University of Pennsylvania president Elizabeth Magill, and M.I.T. president Sally Kornbluth responding to a line of congressional questioning about antisemitism at elite universities.
Baratunde Thurston • December 18, 2023
Old School
The public scandal around Claudine Gay and Liz Magill, among others, has distracted us from the real problem here: Elite institutions should focus less on press releases and more on their power to convene experts and host well-facilitated discussions. This is hard work, but it is desperately needed.
There’s already some chatter on K Street and around the Hill about whether Steve Scalise, McCarthy’s longtime No. 2, could make another play for the top spot.
Tara Palmeri • December 15, 2023
Scalise Revivalism & McCarthy’s Big-Money Dreams
The latest intrigue and conversation inside Congress: Mike Johnson’s post-honeymoon blues, Scalise succession games, and McCarthy’s speaker circuit rate card.
Donald Trump speaks at the New York Young Republican Club Gala at Cipriani Wall Street on December 09, 2023 in New York City.
Tina Nguyen • December 14, 2023
Trump’s Puppeteer Theater
Campaign officials have warned two “America First” think tanks, both attempting to help staff a putative Trump administration, that their gabbing to the media has become an “unwelcomed distraction.” But as always in Trump world, the wrist-slap follows a loyalty test.
House Republicans moved forward on impeaching Joe Biden in a party-line, 221-212 impeachment inquiry vote that narrowly passed the chamber.
Abby Livingston • December 13, 2023
House G.O.P. Impeachment Agita
With House Republicans narrowly approving an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden, a close look at the hopes and anxieties reverberating through congress.