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Javier Milei , left, shakes hands with Donald Trump while sitting at a table.

Trump’s latest beef buyout prompts groans from Republicans and MAGA ranchers

Ja'han Jones

Education Secretary Linda McMahon on July 15, 2025 outside of the White House.

Trump administration ramps up its war on young voters with Tufts University probe

Ja'han Jones

The opening ceremony of the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics on Feb. 6, 2026, in Milan.

It took just two days for Trump to put a Trumpy twist on the Olympics

Steve Benen

Jamie Siminoff, founder of Ring, in a commercial introducing "Search Party from Ring."

Cute dogs can’t distract from the disturbing subtext in Ring’s Super Bowl ad

Hayes Brown

The political messaging you may have missed in Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime masterpiece

Jen Chaney

The ‘Melania’ director was behind that Mike Tyson Super Bowl ad

Julianne McShane

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

Why Congress deposed Ghislaine Maxwell knowing she wouldn’t talk

Duncan Levin

Photos of Jeffrey Epstein with unnamed girls in redacted and undated photos released by the Department of Justice.

Even inside DOJ’s secure room, some Epstein files still redacted

Julianne McShane

Steve Bannon waves his hand while walking into the court building.

Trump DOJ seeks Bannon contempt dismissal instead of opposing him at SCOTUS

Jordan Rubin

LA state capitol building photographed from above. The whole building and its surroundings are visible.

Democrats overperform in another special election

Steve Benen

In this photo shot from below, Wes Moore talking to reporters.

White House to host the nation’s governors, but only Republicans are invited

Steve Benen

Trump’s push to ‘nationalize’ elections appears to have a quiet target

Hayes Brown

Andrew is walking into a building where we can see a close-up of his profile.

UK investigates claims Andrew sent trade information to Epstein

Sydney Carruth

Donald Trump looks at Karoline Leavitt on the plane.

The lessons from the fiasco surrounding Trump and the racist video he amplified

Steve Benen

Legs are seen below red, white and blue voting booth curtains.

‘Trump is showing us the playbook’: Officials scramble to protect against election interference

David Rohde

A general view of the Center for Disease Control headquarters on Aug. 06, 2022 in Atlanta, GA.

New survey points to falling public confidence in Trump’s public health team

Steve Benen

Howard Lutnick with his arms crossed.

Lawmakers call for Trump commerce secretary’s ouster over alleged Epstein ties

Steve Benen

Donald Trump is shouting.

The very simple moral at the heart of Trump’s racist Obama video controversy

Charles F. Coleman Jr.

Luigi Mangione talks to a man as he sits in the court room.

On double jeopardy, Mangione may be right about common sense but wrong legally

Jordan Rubin

Tulsi Gabbard looking up during a Senate hearing.

Tulsi Gabbard’s whistleblower controversy comes into sharper focus

Steve Benen

Vice President JD Vance at the Olympics

Vance gets a chilly Winter Olympics reception in Milan, with booing and jeering

Clarissa-Jan Lim

Donald Trump; Chuck Schumer.

Trump tries to blame Schumer for the president’s own Gateway tunnel project debacle

Steve Benen

Kamala Harris sits at the stage while smiling and her hands are crossed over her legs.

Kamala Harris needs to do better than this

Kaivan Shroff

See it: Ghislaine Maxwell invokes Fifth Amendment in new House deposition video

Savannah Guthrie and family say ‘we will pay’ in new video, beg for return of mother

Attorney for 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos: ‘They are traumatized’

Why Bad Bunny’s historic Super Bowl performance was such a success

‘They may have broken the DOJ’: New report highlights DOJ struggling to recruit prosecutors

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  1. Paul Allen, left, and Russell Wilson hoist the Lombardi trophy in the air as blue and green confetti falls around them.

    Why the Seahawks’ Super Bowl win is good for America

    Keith Reed

  2. Birds fly past a giant banner with the image of President Donald Trump on Jan. 05, 2026 hanging on the outside of the U.S. Department of Labor.

    Why Trump wants to rename Dulles Airport and Penn Station after himself

    Zeeshan Aleem

  3. The Kennedy Center reflected in the Potomac River at dusk.

    Trump’s contempt for the Kennedy Center has reached a new level. I’m pushing back.

    Rep. Chellie Pingree

  4. People hold signs saying "Only Citizens Vote" and "Pass the SAVE Act" outside.

    There’s a deceptively simple problem with Trump’s push to change voter ID rules

    Ryan Teague Beckwith

  5. Workers in green construction lifts work on the facade of the Kennedy Center, which is reflected in a puddle.

    Trump’s Kennedy Center ‘renovations’ explanation is a fig leaf for something darker

    Symone D. Sanders Townsend

  6. People hold signs calling for an end to censorship at Texas A&M's campus.

    Texas A&M’s bogus reason for cutting women’s and gender studies

    Evette Dionne

  7. Jeanine Pirro, left, points to a table of guns in front of her.

    Jeanine Pirro’s troubles with gun activists could come with a steep cost for MAGA

    Stephen Gutowski

  8. a photo illustration of Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post logo reflected in cracked glass

    How billionaires are destroying American journalism

    Zeeshan Aleem

  9. A person holds a sign that reads "Keep ICE out of hospitals."

    I’m a doctor. The consequences of ICE presence in hospitals could be deadly.

    Dr. Uché Blackstock

  10. From left to right: Alysa Liu, Amber Glenn and Isabeau Levito pose for a portrait in matching jackets.

    These Olympic figure skaters refuse to conform — and they’re winning

    Hannah Holland

  11. President Donald Trump signs Tulsi Gabbard's commission for her new role as Director of National Intelligence on Feb. 12, 2025 in the Oval Office at the White House.

    Trump wants an election fraud story. Tulsi Gabbard is willing to tell it.

    Philip Bump

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