WASHINGTON
Tina Nguyen
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August 26, 2021
Ron DeSantis and the Big-Lie Boys: Trump’s Heirs Count Down to ’24
Supporting Trump’s Big Lie is quietly becoming an essential issue for Republican candidates. Can they still run to be his heir while attesting that he never lost in the first place?
Peter Hamby
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August 23, 2021
Gavin Newsom Is in Trouble. Could He Take Biden with Him?
After four years of exhausting Trump panic, Democrats are going to have to find a way to galvanize millions of voters once again—all to save a politician that not many people cared about in the first place.
Julia Ioffe
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August 19, 2021
How Tucker Carlson’s “Frat House” Foreshadowed Trump
A conversation with Tina Nguyen, Puck's Trumpworld correspondent, about Mike Lindell’s meltdown and life inside the MAGA bubble.
Tina Nguyen
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August 18, 2021
Mar-a-Lago on the Prairie
Scenes from Mike Lindell's dystopian post-Trump Trump convention.
Theodore Schleifer
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August 17, 2021
The Biggest Story in the Billionaire Philanthropy World
Two strange bedfellows have made a ruckus by pushing the most sweeping change to the rules surrounding nonprofit funding in half a century.
Julia Ioffe
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August 13, 2021
‘This Town,’ a Decade Later
A conversation with Mark Leibovich, the dean of American political writing, about Washington's profound inability to meet the Trump moment.
Peter Hamby
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August 12, 2021
Farewell to the Cuomo Pandemic
Andrew Cuomo was seen as a master of the inside game. But the mythology of his power was always disproportionate with reality.
Baratunde Thurston
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August 8, 2021
A Modest Proposal for Fixing America’s Hilariously Broken Economy
If we all choose to opt out of self-government the way our wealthiest members have done, we’ll be left with no government at all.
Julia Ioffe
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August 5, 2021
Felicia Sonmez and the Truth About Objectivity
After #MeToo, after the George Floyd protests, after the Trump presidency, what is objectivity? Is it an attainable or even appropriate goal of our coverage? And does striving for it do more harm than good?
Theodore Schleifer
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August 5, 2021
Can Zuckerberg’s Old Roommate Strong-Arm Washington?
Dustin Moskovitz has been reluctant since the beginning to embrace his power as a fixer. But after Clinton lost, he wised up—and gingerly leaned in.
Peter Hamby
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August 5, 2021
What Jen Psaki Really Thinks About the Media
The White House press secretary discusses Biden's beef with Facebook, how the media changed during the Trump years, and why Democrats should talk to Fox News.
Julia Ioffe
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July 30, 2021
The Existential Anxiety of Cable News After Trump
Journalists resented Trump for all the obvious reasons. But his presidency also reversed a long erosion of the industry—and transformed the economics of media careers.
Julia Ioffe
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July 27, 2021
This Town After Trump: Nothing to See Here, Folks
Sometimes, Washington clutches its pearls so hard it risks choking itself. After January 6, Republicans just want to move on.
Julia Ioffe
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July 19, 2021
“Ready for War”: Biden’s Coming Russia Crisis
The White House seems to have settled on a strategy of doing just enough to make Putin a manageable adversary. It’s containment for the 21st century.
Julia Ioffe
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July 16, 2021
Maggie, Woodward & The Never-Ending Trump Glut
For years it seemed that every book proposal was about Trump, and almost every book was a best-seller. Is the easy money coming to an end?
Julia Ioffe
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July 8, 2021
The Agony and Ecstasy of the Trump Reporters
Six months since he left office after dispatching a mob to ransack the Capitol, the journalists who covered Trump are still adjusting to a post-Trump reality.
Julia Ioffe
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June 13, 2021
Biden Takes On the Putin Singularity
Biden enters his meeting with Putin as little more than a caretaker of American democracy, even as it is becomes less democratic by the day.