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2024 Election
Debate 2024: All the Highlights From the First Biden-Trump Showdown
The current and former president clashed on a host of policy issues, but Democrats are panicking over the president’s performance.
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“Don’t F-cking Leave”: How Neo-Nazis and White Supremacists Trap Their Followers in the Movement Forever
In an excerpt of her new book Black Pill, CNN correspondent Elle Reeve wades through the organizational muck of the far right—which consists of the “suits” and “boots”—and reveals the personal pitfalls of being famous among all the worst people.
By Elle Reeve
From the Magazine
How Art Mogul Louise Blouin Lost Her Fabled Hamptons Estate
Louise Blouin lost La Dune, the Hamptons estate where she once entertained Prince Andrew and Calvin Klein, but she’s not letting go quietly.
By Jennifer Gould
Media
“I’m Not Naive”: Inside Emma Tucker’s Rocky Wall Street Journal Reboot
The British-born editor has injected America’s business paper of record with ambition and verve, while unnerving the newsroom with unapologetic cuts. The restructuring “may look callous,” she says. “But it’s so that we get it right, so I don’t have to do it over again.”
By Charlotte Klein
ABORTION
Iowa Supreme Court Upholds Six-Week Abortion Ban, Dismisses Constitutionality of Reproductive Care Access
The 4-3 decision will have sweeping consequences across the Midwest.
By Katie Herchenroeder
Should Biden Stay In The Race? Everyone Has an Opinion.
After a rough debate night, some Democrats are rethinking their presidential nominee.
By Katie Herchenroeder
Biden’s Debate Performance Was Objectively Terrible—and Trump Is Still Trump
Where does that leave us?
By Bess Levin
Joe Biden Set All the Rules in the Debate—And Still Got Trounced by Donald Trump
The 81-year-old president stumbled, froze up, and fell for foolish back-and-forths, delivering a dismal showing that's caused some Democrats to reconsider his candidacy altogether.
By Eric Lutz
Jamaal Bowman's Loss Doesn’t Lend Itself to Easy Conclusions
The congressman was weighed down by a lot more than his Israel criticism. And while Cori Bush may suffer the same fate, that doesn't mean the whole Squad is going down.
By Eric Lutz
Trump VP Hopefuls Prepare to Give His Debate Performance Rave Reviews
If they want the number two job, they’ll say he was incredible regardless of what happens.
By Bess Levin
Inside the Hive
Pod Save America’s Hosts Are Staying Positive About 2024. That Doesn’t Mean They Don’t Fear the Worst
Jon Favreau and Tommy Vietor discuss the importance of civil engagement in a time of mass cynicism, and explain how Americans can keep finding the comedy in the country’s post-Trump tragedy.
By Brian Stelter
A Mind-Boggling Number of Voters Who Could Decide the Election Think Donald Trump—Yes, That Donald Trump—Is Better for Democracy Than Biden
As in, the Donald Trump who incited an insurrection because he couldn’t admit he lost the last election.
By Bess Levin
Mike Johnson Shoots Down Trump’s Claim That Biden Will Be on Drugs During the Debate, but Warns the President Could “Be on Some Sort of Energy Drinks”
Red Bull? Monster? A direct IV of espresso? The sky’s the limit.
By Bess Levin
2024 Election
The Challenge for CNN’s Debate Moderators: Keeping Themselves Out of It
CNN anchors Jake Tapper and Dana Bash have a herculean task ahead of them: making sure Donald Trump and Joe Biden stay on track—and get all the attention.
By Brian Stelter
2024 Election
Smearing, Flexing, and Playing the Victim: Inside Trumpworld’s Pre-debate Messaging Blitz
The former president’s brain trust is flooding the zone with shit ahead of Thursday night’s showdown. “The Biden people didn’t want the debate to happen,” says Trump adviser Jason Miller. “That’s why Biden is freaking out.”
By Gabriel Sherman
Sports
“It Was Astonishing”: How NBC Convinced Al Michaels to Embrace His AI Voice for Olympics Coverage
The network will use an artificial clone of the legendary broadcaster’s voice to narrate its daily recaps of the summer event. “It was not only close,” he says of the technology, “it was almost 2% off perfect.”
By Tom Kludt
Mike Johnson Wants to Be MAGA’s “Get Out of Jail Free” Card
After reportedly promising to help overturn Donald Trump’s recent conviction, the House Speaker is now leading an effort to keep Steve Bannon out of prison, too.
By Eric Lutz
From the Magazine
A Template for Palestine—For a Postwar, Two-State Future
For two decades, Palestinian, Israeli, and American urban planners and power brokers have been envisioning a revitalized West Bank and Gaza. The war and its incalculable tragedies have made their efforts all the more urgent.
By Marie Brenner
Texas’s “Pro-Life” Abortion Law Has Literally Led to More Infant Deaths
The infant mortality rate went up in the state by nearly 13% the year after the Heartbeat Act went into effect.
By Bess Levin
Melania Trump Will Have a Long-Distance Relationship With the White House If Trump Wins Again, First Lady Experts Predict
“If he should win, that would be the worst-case scenario for her.”
By Bess Levin
Julian Assange, Glorified and Vilified Founder of WikiLeaks, to Be Set Free
Fourteen years after WikiLeaks published classified materials related to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, touching off a winding legal saga that spanned three presidencies, the controversial whistleblower has entered plea deal.
By Eric Lutz