Politics

Happy Birthday, Trump: Your Generation Trashed American Politics

In 1992, when Bill Clinton won the presidency over George H.W. Bush, the transition in power was accompanied by a wave of generational commentary.The election marked the passing of a remarkable ros...

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Ukraine is winning the drone war. Now it needs to win over Trump.

Ukraine is running out of Patriot interceptors, its power grid is heading into summer crippled and President Donald Trump is consumed by Iran. But for the first time in years, Kyiv is gaining groun...

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Can This Man Govern Britain? (Can Anyone?)

ASHTON-IN-MAKERFIELD, England — The most pivotal decision of Andy Burnham’s political life was made, like all the best decisions, in the pub.Over pints of lager on London’s Horseferry Road, Burnham...

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‘This Is What We Want for America’

WHITLEYVILLE, Tennessee — On a Tuesday morning earlier this spring, Josh Abbotoy steered his pickup truck through a grassy meadow in central Tennessee. The field was empty, save for a few patches o...

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Trump endorses Mike Collins in Georgia Senate runoff

President Donald Trump endorsed close ally Rep. Mike Collins in Georgia’s Republican Senate primary early Sunday morning, igniting a high-profile clash with Gov. Brian Kemp in the final days before...

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The generational disaster of Trump, Bush and Clinton

In 1992, when Bill Clinton won the presidency over George H.W. Bush, the transition in power was accompanied by a wave of generational commentary. The election marked the passing of a re...

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Secretive super PAC funding is skyrocketing in primaries

A record number of groups are exploiting a gap in campaign finance law to flood this year's primary elections with money — without disclosing their donors until long after the race is over.More tha...

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Inside the whirlwind 24 hours that led the White House to slap export controls on Anthropic

The Trump administration’s decision to impose sweeping export controls on Anthropic followed a frantic 24-hour effort by senior officials to convince the company to voluntarily pull a newly release...

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UFC's White House weekend has become the ultimate Rorschach test for America

WASHINGTON — This weekend is either the high-water mark of the UFC's existence or an affront to the nation, but in any case it's a reality check for those of us who come from the MMA side of the le...

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A GOP revolt over AI is taking shape

The fight over artificial intelligence is here, and the populist right is lacing up its gloves.In recent weeks, the battle lines within the Republican Party over AI regulation have come squarely in...

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Most battleground House races have data centers on the way, POLITICO analysis finds

More than 200 data centers are going up in dozens of competitive House districts — and neither party knows how to handle their political fallout heading into the midterms.The energy-hungry computin...

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Beijing blasts Pentagon’s latest Chinese military company list

China’s Ministry of Commerce has come out swinging at the Pentagon’s move to add a new slate of Chinese companies to its list of firms deemed to be military rather than civilian.That decision “abus...

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Health department staffers aren't buying RFK Jr.'s peace offerings

When you call your employees a “sock puppet” of industry, blame them for bungling the pandemic, and fire thousands of their colleagues, it’s not easy to take it back.But Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and h...

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Trump says agreement with Iran will be signed Sunday

President Donald Trump said Saturday that an agreement with Iran is scheduled to be signed Sunday, potentially marking the culmination of months of negotiations that repeatedly veered between threa...

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Meet the Clean Air Act pardon crusaders

Troy Lake offered a stunning confession during dinner with his new neighbor, Wyoming political consultant Jeff Daugherty: Lake would soon report to a federal prison.Daugherty was stunned again when...

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Vivek Ramaswamy Preaches the American Dream. Will White Christians Accept It?

PIKETON, Ohio — It looked like a scene out of a Norman Rockwell painting: a school gym transformed into an Americana-themed party venue; families at round tables, eating steak and potatoes; red-whi...

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Iranian ambassador at World Cup: ‘Iran and the U.S. can be very good friends’

MEXICO CITY, Mexico – The first booth World Cup fans encounter at the global fan expo in Mexico City's Chapultepec Park belongs to Iran.Inside, women in colorful headscarves serve sambuseh, a tradi...

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Disillusioned Revolutionaries: Many Founders Died in Despair About the American Experiment

In a special America 250 issue, Reason takes a look back at our country's founding people and ideas. Read more here. Joanna Andreasson As a ...

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Trump lawyers: No collusion with Trump administration to create 'Anti-Weaponization' fund

Attorneys for President Donald Trump are rejecting allegations that they defrauded a federal court in Florida by bringing a lawsuit against the IRS — only to settle with the Trump-led Justice Depar...

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‘The elephant in the room’: Trump’s Iran war looms over G7

President Donald Trump’s potential trade war dominated last year’s G7 as the world’s wealthiest nations gathered in Canada hoping to avert a devastating tariff deadline.This year, it’s Trump’s Iran...

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ICE’s detention policy won at the 5th Circuit. Then judges found another way to reject it.

When a federal appeals court in February endorsed ICE’s unprecedented policy to detain — without bond — thousands of immigrants with established roots in the U.S., the Trump administration celebrat...

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