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The Shot That Changed America
The attempted assassination of Donald Trump was the great symbolic moment of the 2024 election. It transformed the race—and much else.
Christopher Caldwell
Tina Brown: MAGA Is Right About Jeffrey Epstein
I have never fully believed that Epstein committed suicide, and my skepticism grows the more the mysteries accumulate.
Tina Brown
The Epstein Conspiracy Theorists Will Never Be Satisfied
Waving away questions about Epstein, the president sounded like the deep state he had run against in 2016 and again in 2020.
Peter Savodnik
Tyler Cowen: Why Won’t Socialism Die?
The simple explanation is that people like free stuff. What’s actually happening is a nationwide case of bad vibes.
Tyler Cowen
The Other Immigrant Crisis: Identity Theft
To work in America, some people steal Social Security numbers. Their victims pay a steep price. ‘It’s my life they’re playing with, and it’s not fair.’
Frannie Block and Madeleine Rowley
The Forgotten American: Can There Be Life After 12 Years in a Chinese Prison?
Mark Swidan spent more than a decade in a windowless box for a crime he didn’t commit. Now he’s back home in Texas—and living on food stamps.
Peter Savodnik
WATCH: Inside the Near Assassination of President Trump
Salena Zito was four feet away from the stage when the president was shot. She sits down with Peter Savodnik to discuss that day.
Peter Savodnik
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Dan Crenshaw: Heartbreak and Heroism in Hill Country, Texas
Neighbors saved neighbors. That is the spirit of my home state. No flood can ever wash it away.
Dan Crenshaw
WATCH: Eric Adams to Cuomo: ‘Get Out’ and Let Me Beat Mamdani
New York City’s mayor on Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo; socialism and corruption; policing and power; and rats and redemption.
Coleman Hughes
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Is Elon Musk the New Ross Perot?
Washington plays by different rules than Silicon Valley. Musk hasn’t mastered them.
Matthew Continetti
The Texas Floods Were an Avoidable Tragedy
This weekend, disaster struck one of the nation’s most flood-prone areas, where centuries of data show casualties were foreseeable and preventable.
Roger Pielke Jr.
After Trump Was Shot, He Called Me
Salena Zito was four feet away from the stage when President Trump took a bullet—and has written a new book about the experience. She joins Peter…
Salena Zito
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