Politics

What Is the Difference Between Exile and Exiles?

Close to forty years ago, Derek Walcott wrote something scathing about V.S. Naipaul. The two writers—both from the Caribbean, both Nobel laureates—were still alive then. Walcott wrote the following...

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Fed divided over decision to keep rates on hold as markets tumble

The Federal Reserve voted Wednesday to keep interest rates steady in a fractured decision that showed growing support within the central bank for a rate hike to fight elevated inflation.Three offic...

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Sam Altman previews new AI model on Capitol Hill after cyber breach

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman met with senators Wednesday to preview one of his company's newest artificial intelligence models, as lawmakers grapple with a recent autonomous AI-led cyber breac...

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Netanyahu plays it safe in a Washington that’s cooled on Israel

In his latest effort to influence the Trump administration’s approach to the Iran war, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is stopping short of urging any specific actions, sticking instead t...

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Florida attorney general launches probe into Fauci over Covid claims

TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced a state investigation into Anthony Fauci on Wednesday amid continued GOP scrutiny in Washington.The Trump-era Covid czar pus...

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White House pitches Senate GOP on ‘tight’ party-line bill focused on military, farm aid

White House officials urged Senate Republicans on Wednesday to quickly adopt a spending blueprint for a narrowly focused party-line spending bill, but they struggled to quash GOP skepticism about t...

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Fauci hearing brings back the Covid vitriol

Besides the illness and death, the disruption and the loneliness, Americans remember the pandemic for its vitriol. The handling of Covid divided the parties, the states, families and neighbors and ...

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The Covid debate that never ended

Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on Wednesday,...

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Progressives Try for a Purple State

Photographs by Nic AntayaYou won’t find a much harsher critic of the Democratic Party than the progressive trying to secure its nomination for Senate in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed. When I caught up w...

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The Political Fight That Could Decide 2028

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTubeIn this week’s episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his reaction to President Trump’s latest round of tariffs and e...

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Will there be a World Cup boycott? Infantino’s deal with Trump empire pushes football to the brink

Senior figures within European football are working out whether there are legal options to oppose Gianni Infantino’s plan to to set up a private company to run Fifa’s competitions, while some execu...

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The State Of American Elections: For The Left, 'The Worse, The Better'

The State Of American Elections: For The Left, 'The Worse, The Better' Authored by Bradley Thayer via American Greatness, Americans long knew that their elections were in embarras...

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Newsom’s scandal playbook: Don’t dispute it.

As Gavin Newsom’s 20-year-old affair with a then-staffer returned to the headlines, his inner circle revived the same playbook he used as mayor when the story first broke: Don’t dispute it.The Cali...

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Jensen Huang presses lawmakers for lighter touch on AI

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang came to Washington on Tuesday with a message for lawmakers: The United States needs to expand access to artificial intelligence technology if it wants to stay ahead in the g...

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OpenAI's rogue models roamed the internet for 4 days and staged a second attack

The powerful artificial intelligence models from OpenAI that went rogue and mounted an unprecedented, autonomous cyberattack earlier this month spent more than four days loose on the internet orche...

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Momentum shifts for Zelenskyy in Washington

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pulled off a feat Tuesday that seemed impossible a year ago: convincing Washington that Kyiv can win the war.Unlike Zelenskyy’s tortured Oval Office visit in...

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Lindsey Graham’s Last Laugh

Lindsey Graham always had a deep appreciation for earpieces, motorcades, and heavily secured environments. He recognized heady Washington status symbols when he saw them—including posthumous ones, ...

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Trump Crashes Into Reality

President Trump has mused about being the most powerful man in history. He has started wars and remade his nation’s economic and strategic relationships with the world. He has demanded, and largely...

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‘Preposterous’: Comey team attacks charges over alleged threat to Trump

A May 2026 FBI interview with notorious mobster “Sammy the Bull.” A text message from a disgruntled acquaintance misled by a Rudy Giuliani podcast. An actress’ late-night television routine.The str...

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FEMA said yes to Democratic disaster requests. Trump killed them anyway.

President Donald Trump overruled his own agencies when he denied disaster aid for four Democratic-led states this month.Emails between state and federal officials obtained by POLITICO along with mo...

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Being Trump’s favorite international bureaucrat has a price

Gianni Infantino’s political future may be on the U.S. midterm ballot.For years, FIFA’s president has nurtured one of the closest relationships between any world leader and President Donald Trump, ...

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