Between the Bloc and a hard place  —  With help from Eli Okun, Ali Bianco and Irie Sentner  —  AT TRUMP'S TABLE: The most coveted seats in MAGA world were occupied at Mar-a-Lago on Friday evening by new chief of staff Stephen Miller, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his wife …

‘You gotta be kidding me’: Hegseth used these 4 things to decide on senior officer promotions  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth short-circuited a merit-based process for promoting senior officers and instead relied on newly invented criteria that disproportionately removed from advancement women …

10 takeaways from Trump's 60 Minutes interview: Why GOP lost the midterms, what went wrong on immigration and more  —  Days after Republicans faced a series of bruising midterm election losses, President Trump stood by his handling of the economy and the Iran war — but he acknowledged some …

Read the full transcript of Ross Douthat's interview with President Trump  —  President Trump sat down with Ross Douthat to discuss Republican losses in the midterm elections, the wars in Iran and Ukraine, the economy and more.  Below is a transcript of their conversation.

Trump backs Nvidia's Huang amid affair, spy investigation  —  President Trump defended Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Sunday night, even as the company's board launched an investigation into his affair with a suspected Chinese spy. … - “I don't know, but I'd certainly take him,” the president told reporters.

Major media outlets sanitize Stephen Miller's white nationalist ideas  —  Miller has a long history of promoting some of the core tenets of white nationalism.  Media outlets, with few exceptions, chose not to describe his views in plain terms.  —  After a historic defeat in the 2026 midterm elections …

House Democrats plan more prominent placement for Jan. 6 memorial plaque  —  Democrats intend to find a more prominent location to display a memorial plaque honoring the law enforcement officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — which Republicans currently have relegated to the basement of the building.

Here Are the Difficult Options Trump Is Weighing to Resolve the War in Iran  —  There are no good choices facing President Trump as he tries to find a way out of the deeply unpopular conflict.  But there are choices.  —  The public split last week between Vice President JD Vance …

'Russ Vought's gonna meet his match': What Murkowski's potential promotion means for the White House  —  As President Donald Trump loses one of the biggest GOP critics of his administration with Sen. Susan Collins' defeat, he's gaining an increasingly powerful Republican antagonist who could pose a bigger liability for his agenda.

Trump says he was just kidding about making UFC's Dana White his press secretary  —  President Donald Trump said Sunday he was only kidding about making UFC boss Dana White his next White House press secretary after announcing on social media he had offered his close friend the job.

Introducing Public Reason  —  Fixing liberalism's ideas problem, one post at a time.  —  The midterm elections — together with contests in Brazil, Serbia, and to some degree even Israel — have changed the world.  All of a sudden, the once-ascendant populist right is on the back foot …

Firm Linked to Trump's Sons Got Nearly $40 Million in Federal Contracts to Screen for Ebola and Other Diseases  —  XpresTest has years of experience conducting disease screening in U.S. airports but has never worked with Ebola or provided biosecurity services abroad.  It's “a new thing for us,” the company's CEO said.

Dem Congresswoman-Elect Heads to Court on Felony Charges for Failing To Return Rental Car  —  LaKesha Womack, who defeated Republican Tim Moore in North Carolina's red-leaning 14th district, declined to say whether the vehicle was ever recovered  —  A week after Democrat LaKesha Womack pulled off …

Exclusive / ‘Put the posters in charge’: Inside the Democrats' secret strategy to flood the internet with clips  —  By January 2025, Paulina Mangubat knew the Democratic National Committee needed to change its digital communications approach dramatically.  —  The organization had been shattered …

The Texas Miracle  —  Democracy's biggest win in a night of big wins … On March 23, 2026, the Conservative Political Action Conference — which is to the global right what the Comintern once was to international communism — held its fifth annual meeting in Budapest.

Progressives Launch ‘Ready for AOC,’ as 2028 Jockeying Heats Up  —  A new political organization aims to encourage Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to run for president, and to demonstrate that a formidable organizing apparatus is awaiting her.  —  Fresh off a midterm election …