Steve Bannon got out of prison exactly a week before Election Day. He was released before dawn and immediately headed to a remote studio to tape War Room, his podcast and streaming show, so as to waste no time getting back to his audience, the MAGA faithful. He had been in prison for almost four…
By now we are all familiar with the refrain that inflation cost Democrats the election. Critical accounts blame Joe Biden for driving prices higher with federal spending, while sympathetic treatments note a worldwide trend of inflation toppling governments around the world. Neither assessment is quite right. Voters did indeed reject Kamala Harris over frustration with…
After the election, a new theory spread quickly on TikTok that a heroic presidential candidate was quietly investigating corrupt deep-state actors who rigged the results, waiting in the wings until those corrupt actors could be rounded up and tried for their crimes. If that theory sounds familiar, it’s because it’s reminiscent of QAnon. But the…
Just one week has passed since Donald Trump’s electoral triumph, and already Russian President Vladimir Putin—one of the strongman leaders Trump admires most—is messing with his head. First, Putin waited two days before congratulating Trump on his victory. One can imagine Trump receiving phone calls from kowtowing leaders the world over—Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky, Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu,…
As election night projections looked increasingly favorable for Donald Trump, the tech titan who perhaps did more than anyone to shift Silicon Valley rightward, began taking his victory laps, first and foremost by replaying all his most ignominious hits. Record usage of this platform!! pic.twitter.com/SfWyi9kBWd — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 6, 2024 As ever, the…
I had never been very interested in politics, especially not in politics far from Palestine or Israel. Since starting in the field of journalism, I have mostly written stories about society and culture, the arts, social life, and sports. And I never followed the American elections—until 2016, when CNN asked me to produce a report…
Picture an interrogation room with a single chair under a bright light. On that chair sits an apostrophe (we’d get Michael Cera to play him). He’s covered in flop sweat, trying to answer investigators’ questions about where he was during Joe Biden’s Zoom call with Latino voters. Sorry, that’s just me imagining the movie version…
Slate takes final stock of just how Not Normal this election was. Joe Biden’s exit from the presidential race over the summer was the latest that a major-party candidate has ever quit a presidential campaign—by a lot. Lyndon Johnson had set the previous standard for stunning race shakeups by dropping out in late March 1968;…
During what was likely his final campaign stop as president in his childhood hometown of Scranton, President Joe Biden on Saturday fiercely defended his record working on behalf of unions and touted Vice President Kamala Harris’ candidacy to be his successor. He spoke at a union hall with union workers, a deeply friendly audience for…
On Friday afternoon, the New York Times and other outlets reported that, for the first time in almost 50 years, the Washington Post would not be endorsing a candidate in the 2024 presidential election—and would refrain from endorsing candidates in all future presidential elections, too. In a note to staffers, the newspaper’s beleaguered publisher, Will…