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Eugene Daniels
Eugene Daniels is an MS NOW senior Washington correspondent and co-host of "The Weekend,” which airs on Saturdays and Sundays from 7 to 10 a.m. ET on MS NOW.
Ayman Mohyeldin
Ayman Mohyeldin is a co-host of "The Weekend: Primetime,” which airs on Saturdays and Sundays from 6 to 9 p.m. ET on MS NOW.
Symone D. Sanders Townsend
Symone D. Sanders Townsend is a co-host of "The Weeknight," which airs Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. ET on MS NOW.
Latest Columns
Trump’s plutonium giveaway plan is a national security risk
The Trump administration is planning to give surplus plutonium from dismantled nuclear bombs to new nuclear startup companies.
Trump’s ugly UFC arena has an even uglier motivation
Trump’s outrageous White House arena is far from politically neutral.
The sobering truth about ‘Summer House’ — and why we can’t look away
Why “Scamanda” so swiftly entered the zeitgeist and extended well past the typical reach of Bravo drama.
Trump’s plan for white South Africans is straight out of the KKK’s playbook
The Trump administration will admit an additional 10,000 Afrikaners this fiscal year because of an “emergency” that doesn’t actually exist.
Democrats warn companies against aligning with Trump’s Jim Crow resurgence
Democratic officials are using their powers to spotlight and shame corporate America amid the MAGA movement’s assault on Black people.
Trump administration reportedly zeroes in on anti-tech ‘extremists’
The Trump administration is seeking to classify some Big Tech critics as terrorist threats. What could go wrong?
Pope Leo’s pointed rebuke of JD Vance is sure to sting
The pontiff writes that “‘just war’ theory, which has all too often been used to justify any kind of war, is now outdated.”
Paxton won his runoff in a landslide — but ceded the moral high ground to Talarico
The Texas attorney general’s record will mean more attention on the issue of corruption, which Democrats can run on across the country.
The DOJ’s new bench of mediocre attorneys rack up loss after loss in court
It used to be unthinkable for so many grand juries to reject Justice Department cases — and judges are taking notice.
Why does Trump keep harping on the Abraham Accords?
Normalizing relations between Israel and more Arab Gulf states doesn’t seem to be in the cards — but Trump needs to placate the hawks in his party with a “win.”
