Retaliation Campaign
President Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” Is Quickly Running Out of Time Before His Self-Imposed July 4th Deadline
The Senate moved forward with a massive bill supporting Trump's agenda, with two Republicans joining forces with the Democrats. Senator Thom Tillis, who voted against the president's plan, announced that he would not seek reelection.
parental rights
Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Parents Who Oppose LGBTQ Books
Ahead of Pride parades across the US this weekend, the nation's highest court overturned a Maryland public school district's refusal to allow parents to opt their kids out of sexuality and gender education.
The Rule of Law
On Birthright Citizenship, the Supreme Court Gives Trump a Blunt Tool to Hammer Judges
The president applauded the conservative majority’s 6-3 ruling limiting nationwide injunctions to stop executive orders, a move sure to sow chaos and open the door to unchecked lawlessness. As Justice Sotomayor wrote in dissent, “I will not be complicit in so grave an attack on our system of law.”
What New York Voters Said: “Not Andrew Cuomo.” What Andrew Cuomo Heard: “Stay on the Ballot.”
The former governor may give it another shot.
Mitch McConnell Throws Shade at J.D. Vance and Trump’s Merry Band of “Rabid Isolationists”
The 83-year-old former Senate majority leader isn't saving it for the group chat.
Asbestos, Measles, Coal Plants: How Kennedy and Trump Are Making America “Healthy” Again
Does undermining lifesaving vaccines make people healthy? Asking for an entire country.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett Suggests Melania Trump Might Not Have Actually Qualified for “Einstein Visa”
“The math ain’t mathin’ here.”
Politics
Why We Must Go Forward in Post-Roe America
Reflecting on the second-wave feminists’ legacy in these uncertain times.
Life’s A Beach
Finally, a “Hillbilly Elegy for People Who Hate JD Vance”
Former Obama speechwriter David Litt on the lessons Democrats can learn from the manosphere.
Zohran Mamdani Has Wall Street Bros Shaking in their Fleece Vests
Rich New Yorkers are so desperate to defeat the Democratic primary winner that they're actually considering throwing their support to scandal-plagued mayor Eric Adams.
What Democrats Can Learn from Zohran Mamdani—and Andrew Cuomo
The young progressive triumphed over a deeply flawed establishment rival not only by running a more dynamic campaign, but by offering Democratic voters an ambitious vision to improve their lives.
Election Night
“We Felt Good. But This Is a Mandate.” Inside the Jubilant—and Stunned—Zohran Mamdani Victory Party
Cynthia Nixon, Brad Lander, and Anand Giridharadas were among the well-wishers celebrating Mamdani’s stunning win in the Democratic primary for New York City mayor.
Pete “Texts War Plans to the Group Chat” Hegseth is Mad About Leakers Again
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is furious over a leaked intel report contradicting Trump’s Iran strike narrative—despite his own record of spilling secrets.
Beat the Press
“You Must Be Truly F--king Stupid”: Meet the Man Behind the White House’s Shock Jock Press Strategy
Reporters can expect aggressive, hostile, and even foul-mouthed replies to questions, a bare-knuckle style that Steven Cheung, the architect of the weaponized comms team, considers “untethered by traditional and outdated mores of politics.”
Dobbs Anniversary
Kamala Harris, Recalling “Devastating” Day of Dobbs Decision, Urges Women to “Keep Fighting”
The former vice president made a surprise visit to a conference of abortion storytellers, whose “voices,” she tells Vanity Fair, “are vital to our nation in the ongoing fight for reproductive freedom.”
Media
Brian Entin Covered Crime and Hurricanes. Then His Boss Said, “You Need to Get to Qatar Right Away.”
Quick thinking and a last-minute flight from Miami to Doha put the NewsNation correspondent in a position to get exclusive footage of Iran’s strikes on US bases.
The White House Is Planning a Victory Tour for the Spending Bill Everyone Hates: Report
The legislation has not actually passed yet, but that’s apparently beside the point.
Trump’s Fragile Ceasefire: Israel and Iran “Don’t Know What the F--k They’re Doing”
On TruthSocial, the president is taking a victory lap after announcing a truce between Israel and Iran. But will the peace hold?
Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls For No More Bomb-Dropping on Iran, Appears to Suggest US Should Bomb Drug Cartels
She also shouted out Generation X in her appeal.
Trump and His Advisers Can’t Get the Message Straight on Regime Change in Iran
JD Vance, Marco Rubio, and others say strikes on Iran aren’t meant to bring down Iran's leaders. But on Truth Social, their boss appears to say otherwise.