enjoyed bringing down the aggregate IQ of the show -- huge honor to join the great Jane Mayer, Susan Glasser & Evan Osnos

Trump leads Biden in five crucial battleground states, according to a new set of polls by the The New York Times and SienaResearch, as a yearning for change and discontent over the economy and the war in Gaza among young, Black and Hispanic voters threaten to unravel the president’s…

Putin shakes up his national security team for the first time since his invasion of Ukraine, pushing Shoigu out as defense minister and tapping him to run the security council instead of Patrushev, who will supposedly get another job in coming days. Paul Sonne Anton Troianovski…

Paul Manafort, who was convicted of tax evasion, bank fraud, and money laundering before Trump pardoned him, steps aside from role at Republican National Committee. Maggie Haberman Jonathan Swan nytimes.com/2024/05/11/us/…

Trump used a dubious accounting maneuver to claim improper tax breaks from his troubled Chicago tower, according to an IRS inquiry. Losing a yearslong audit battle over the claim could mean a tax bill of more than $100 million. Russ Buettner Paul Kiel nytimes.com/2024/05/11/us/…

“The Wolves of K Street,” out this week from Brody Mullins Luke Mullins, really is an instant classic -- deeply reported, powerfully told and profoundly important. It’s one of the best books I've read on Washington in many years.

politics-prose.com/book/978198212……

The decision last week to delay a shipment of 3,500 bombs however was a symbolic one meant to get Israel's attention. Other US weapons are still flowing to Israel, including a shipment of small-density 250-pound bombs heading out this weekend.

Flying back from a security conference in Munich a week later, Blinken called Biden from his plane to tell the president that momentum for a full-scale invasion of Rafah was building and they needed to draw a line.

Biden privately threatened to rethink his support for the war in a private call with Netanyahu in February, two months before doing so publicly, but the White House didn't put it into the readout of the call to try to avoid a public blowup.

Biden’s journey to this moment of confrontation has been a long and tortured one, the culmination of a seven-month evolution — from a president who was so appalled by the Hamas-led terrorist attack on Oct. 7 that he pledged “rock solid and unwavering” support for Israel to an…

Biden’s journey to this moment of confrontation has been a long and tortured one, the culmination of a seven-month evolution — from a president who was so appalled by the Hamas-led terrorist attack on Oct. 7 that he pledged “rock solid and unwavering” support for Israel to an…

But Michael Singh makes the case that the Reagan comparison is superficial and highlights what he considers the important differences. wsj.com/articles/on-is…

Biden Is Not the First U.S. President to Cut Off Weapons to Israel: Other presidents, including, Reagan, used the power of American arms to influence Israeli war policy. But the comparisons underscore how much the politics of Israel have changed over the years.…

“We stand united to ensure trustworthy information remains accessible to all. We stand for all journalists, everywhere. Stand with us.”

To commemorate #WorldPressFreedomDay , the top editors and publishers of The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and The New York Times came together for a joint letter…

Trump trial focuses on sex, secret tapes and a tearful witness. 'Falsifying business records' not heard. The prosecution strategy: Spotlight the sleaze, soft-pedal the records. ⁦⁦ben protess⁩ ⁦Jonah Bromwich⁩ ⁦William K. Rashbaum⁩ ⁦Maggie Haberman⁩ nytimes.com/2024/05/04/nyr…

A side effect of the de facto coalition politics that has emerged in the Senate to keep government on track the past 16 months is the death of debate. 'The only time you get to offer an amendment in this place is if it is sure to fail.' ⁦Carl Hulse⁩ nytimes.com/2024/05/03/us/…

At least 97 journalists and media workers have been killed since the start of the war in Gaza.

I’m so glad to say our colleague,
cameraman and producer Shams Odeh, has survived, but he's lost so much.

Watch Nick Schifrin ‘s report…

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Having criminalized abortion in their own state, antiabortion activists in Texas turn to civil courts to try to stop women from going to states where it is legal to have abortions. ⁦Caroline Kitchener⁩ washingtonpost.com/investigations…

When protests are not about actually explaining your cause or trying to engage journalists who are there to listen. ⁦Peggy Noonan⁩ describes her visit to Columbia before the raid.

New: U.S. ranking in 2024 World Press Freedom Index plunges to No.55 (behind Chile and Ivory Coast, among others). ⁦RSF⁩ says “major structural barriers to press freedom persist in [U.S.], once considered a model for freedom of expression.” rsf.org/en/index