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Tweet Share Share Comment On Friday at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and House...
Tweet Share Share Comment The story of 2022’s Senate races was that Republicans—at Donald Trump’s urging—botched several...
Tweet Share Share Comment As president, Donald Trump appointed Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. Barrett then became the...
Welcome back to the Surge, Slate’s Saturday-morning rundown of the most impactful and/or hugely embarrassing figures from the week in politics....
Tweet Share Share Comment When Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez was charged in September with accepting a big sack of...
Tweet Share Share Comment Heading into the Ohio Republican Senate primary on Tuesday, there was some rumbling and grumbling in...
Tweet Share Share Comment Things have gotten weird and wild in Ohio’s Republican Senate primary with the publication of an...
Tweet Share Share Comment Heading into Thursday night’s State of the Union address, there were a number of topics that...
Tweet Share Share Comment Despite surging to a 4-point victory in Vermont’s primary, Republican presidential aspirant Nikki...
Tweet Share Share Comment When last we spoke about the Michigan Republican Party, a faction led by election truther and Trump...
Tweet Share Share Comment For Republicans, election results have become fungible. Losing a race but refusing to admit that...
Tweet Share Share Comment Very few known unknowns have ever been so unknown, or as high-stakes, as the effect Donald Trump’s...
Tweet Share Share Comment A new whistleblower report first covered by NBC News alleges that the Customs and Border Protection...
Tweet Share Share Comment Earlier this month, Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson spoke on the Fox Business channel...
Tweet Share Share Comment Well, right on the heels of President Joe Biden referring twice to 2021 interactions with world...
Tweet Share Share Comment This is Totally Normal Quote of the Day , a feature highlighting a statement from the news that...
Tweet Share Share Comment “The sun may be shining outside, but today is a gloomy day here in the United States Senate,” the...
Tweet Share Share Comment There’s a unique sort of bipartisan consensus right now in Washington. Republicans and Democrats in...
Tweet Share Share Comment This is Totally Normal Quote of the Day , a feature highlighting a statement from the news that...
Tweet Share Share Comment Well, that was fun! (Was it?) Former South Carolina governor and Trump-era U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley...
Tweet Share Share Comment It’s a fun time to live in Michigan, and not just because its flagship university’s unanimously...
Tweet Share Share Comment The progressive left has been displeased with Democratic Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman since...
Tweet Share Share Comment When pundits and reporters talk about Donald Trump’s skill or talent as a politician, he generally...
Tweet Share Share Comment Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley met in a Republican debate on Wednesday night in Des Moines, Iowa. The...
Welcome back to the Surge, Slate’s weekly guide to who is—and is not—surging in the demimonde of politics. I’m Ben Mathis-Lilley, filling in...
Tweet Share Share Comment On Tuesday, Harvard president Claudine Gay resigned. She, like previously defenestrated University of...
Welcome to the Surge, Slate’s roundup of news, notes, and nonsense about the most important figures of the week in United States politics. I’m Ben...
Welcome back to the Surge, Slate’s guide to the big newsmakin’ names of the week in the political sphere. I’m Ben Mathis-Lilley, filling in for...
Tweet Share Share Comment With exactly a month to go until the first nominating contest of the presidential race begins in Iowa,...
Welcome back to the Surge, Slate’s guide to the biggest political newsmakers of the week. I’m Ben Mathis-Lilley, filling in for Jim Newell,...
Tweet Share Share Comment Chris Christie came into the 2024 presidential race having already decided that he wasn’t worried...
Tweet Share Share Comment This is Totally Normal Quote of the Day , a feature highlighting a statement from the news that...
Tweet Share Share Comment On Monday, the Department of Justice announced the arrest of a longtime United States diplomat and...
Tweet Share Share Comment This is Totally Normal Quote of the Day , a feature highlighting a statement from the news that...
Welcome to the Surge, Slate’s weekly guide to the most relevant players of the moment in the world of politics. Or, rather, it’s a guide to that...
Tweet Share Share Comment By a vote of 311 to 114, Republican New York Rep. George Santos has been expelled from Congress days...
Tweet Share Share Comment The Iowa caucus that opens Republican presidential primary season is less than two months off, and, as...
Tweet Share Share Comment The Wall Street Journal published a dispatch this week from West Africa, where militants affiliated...
Folks! Welcome back to the Surge, Slate’s weekly newsletter about the most relevant figures in the wild and woolly world of Washington. (As well as,...
Tweet Share Share Comment Well, well, well: If it isn’t an authentic presidential primary surge/boomlet! Former South Carolina...
Tweet Share Share Comment This is Totally Normal Quote of the Day , a feature highlighting a statement from the news that...
Welcome back to El Surge, Slate’s weekly boletín política about the most important figures of the moment in the fiasco grande of our government....
Tweet Share Share Comment Most articles about presidential debates are well-organized summaries that distill the themes of the...
Tweet Share Share Comment With less than a year now remaining until the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump spent Monday...
Hello! You’re reading the Surge, Slate’s Saturday roundup of the week’s most noteworthy movers and shakers in the world of politics. So much...
Welcome back to the Surge, Slate’s weekly roundup of the most newsworthy figures in politics, government, and mountain climbing. (Just because no...
Tweet Share Share Comment Welcome to another week in our nation’s capital! To catch you up on everything, here’s what’s...
Tweet Share Share Comment This is Totally Normal Quote of the Day, a new feature where we pull a particularly wild statement...
Thanks once again for returning to read the Surge, Slate’s beloved and influential newsletter about the most newsworthy political figures of the...