WASHINGTON
Julia Ioffe
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August 16, 2022
The C.I.A.’s Trump Deja Vu
News of the ex-president’s unsecured intel stash is triggering national-security P.T.S.D. all over this town. The man who tormented their sleep for years, it turns out, might still have the nuclear codes after all.
Theodore Schleifer
& Tina Nguyen
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August 16, 2022
Elon’s G.O.P. Alliance & The Ronny Revolution
Musk’s confab with Kevin McCarthy in Wyoming, on the same day that Republicans are running Liz Cheney out of town, raises questions about his new political allies. Plus updates on DeSantis donor fatigue and what Peter Thiel really wants from Washington.
Tara Palmeri
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August 15, 2022
Is Anita Dunn the Next White House Chair?
New reporting on all the intrigue around town: Dunn’s West Wing endgame, DeSantis’s endorsement strategy, Gavin Newsom’s Biden love tap, and a potential sinecure for Hoyer and Clyburn.
Tara Palmeri
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August 11, 2022
The Trump Informant Guessing Game: Knives Are Out!
Of course, it took about 12 minutes after the F.B.I. raid on Mar-a-Lago for the denizens of Trumpworld to commence the important work of pointing fingers and implicating colleagues. Plus news on the Pelosi succession that Clyburn and Hoyer won’t like.
Tina Nguyen
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August 10, 2022
“The DeSantasy Is Over”
Trump insiders are counting their lucky stars over an F.B.I. raid that seems likely to unify MAGA-land, potentially move up the former president’s announcement, and put DeSantis in a box.
Julia Ioffe
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August 9, 2022
Defund… the F.B.I.?
The raid on Mar-a-Lago has re-opened MAGA tensions with an institution that some on the right associate with Comey, Russiagate, and so forth. But it’s ironic how Republicans are applying the same anti-police rhetoric they once shamed liberals for using.
Tara Palmeri
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August 8, 2022
A Trump Victim Tells All
Rodney Davis has spent a decade representing Illinois’s 13th district before being deemed by voters as insufficiently Trumpy and losing to a mega-MAGA candidate this summer. Now, as he prepares to leave Washington, he candidly opens up about the future of the party, the DeSantis question, Trump’s endorsement strategy, and hypocrisy on both sides of the aisle.
Baratunde Thurston
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August 7, 2022
Jan. 6 & Modern Memory
A conversation with Tina Nguyen on the past, present and future of the far right.
Tara Palmeri
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August 5, 2022
Kellyanne Conway’s Comeback
The former White House aide, whose marriage and domestic life became crossover TMZ fodder, was in the Trumpworld doghouse for months. Now she’s edging her way back into Trump’s inner circle—and may be the frontrunner to run his campaign.
Tara Palmeri
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August 4, 2022
Even Manchin & Sinema Dislike Manchin & Sinema
The former political duo, once given the Capitol Hill Bennifer treatment, are really as unaligned as you could imagine—especially as Sinema has the chance to deflate her ole ally.
Tina Nguyen
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August 3, 2022
Trump’s ‘22 Plans Run Through the 2020 Truthers
Tuesday’s primaries make clear that election denialism is becoming an increasingly critical voting issue on the right, and one that will impact the midterms, ‘24 presidential primary, and possibly the general.
Dylan Byers
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August 3, 2022
Licht’s Hearts and Minds Campaign
A few months into his tenure, Licht is trying to convince Republicans not to boycott CNN, just as Walter Isaacson did two decades ago. Some things never change. But can CNN?
Julia Ioffe
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August 2, 2022
Pelosi’s Last Cold War & The Griner Prisoner Dilemma
The Speaker’s trip to Taipei is the latest, and possibly the final hawkish turn in her three decade conflict with Beijing. (“She wants to stick it to China,” as one person put it.) Meanwhile in Washington, the Biden administration faces a lose-lose negotiation with Moscow.
Tara Palmeri
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August 1, 2022
To Beto or Not to Beto
Is Beto O’Rourke a generationally talented politician just waiting for the right race? Or a lovable loser-martyr who raises gobs of money and lights it on fire? Actually, a third narrative is emerging…
Tara Palmeri
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July 28, 2022
Oz’s Great Escape
Republican Party insiders are increasingly frustrated with what they perceive as a certain laissez-faire attitude from the poorly-polling G.O.P. Senate candidate, who has spent nearly as much time on vacation as on the campaign trail.
Tara Palmeri
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July 28, 2022
Joe Manchin’s Small Washington Dreams
Speculation about Manchin’s appetite for political power and ‘24 fantasies miss core truths about the coal millionaire, former jock, career public servant, and double-wide house boat denizen. He doesn’t want to be the President of the United States. He wants to be the President of West Virginia.
Tina Nguyen
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July 27, 2022
The Kids Are All MAGA
During two nights in Tampa, it became painfully clear that Trump still owns DeSantis—down to the Gen Zers and millennials who revere the guy like their own Dick Nixon.