This is Executive Dysfunction, a newsletter that highlights one under-the-radar story about how Trump is changing the law—or how the law is pushing back—and keeps you posted on the latest from Slate’s Jurisprudence team. Click here to receive it in your inbox each week. The midterm elections are now underway...Read more
Less than half an hour into the first debate between the two candidates for New Hampshire’s open Senate seat, the moderator put his foot in his mouth. “Do you think that’s important, Chris Sununu?” George Epstein, of the Conway Daily Sun, tried to ask one candidate, before immediately course-correcting: “Excuse...Read more
Next week’s U.S. Senate election in Alaska could come down to one letter. Under the state’s unique balloting system, three candidates are running to unseat Sen. Dan S. Sullivan: Democratic former Rep. Mary Peltola, a bandana-wearing gadfly named Gerald Heikes, and … another Dan Sullivan. That other Dan Sullivan, whose...Read more
ISRAEL—In Tel Aviv, one of Israel’s more liberal hubs, Ben Friedhaim sits with his young daughter in HaKnesset Square as waves gently lap onto the nearby beach just days before the election. Even during Shabbat, the boardwalk here is full of families basking in the sunshine, electric scooters whizzing past,...Read more
Democrats were once ready to write off Iowa. After decades of being the quintessential swing state, it seemed the rise of Donald Trump had shifted the Hawkeye State back to being safely Republican. By 2024, there was not a single Democrat in its entire congressional delegation, the GOP had supermajorities...Read more
Donald Trump’s schemes are rarely the best-laid plans, but they often go awry all the same. So far, that’s what appears to be happening to the president’s most visible efforts to tilt next week’s midterm elections toward Republicans. His nationwide gerrymandering campaign and attacks on mail voting are threatening to...Read more
A reckoning around reproductive rights and the First Amendment is brewing for after the midterms. Last week, a large group of conservative states announced an effort to defend the constitutionality of South Dakota’s law prohibiting advertising any item “designed, adapted, or intended for producing an abortion.” Enforcement of the law...Read more
There’s no mystery why Elon Musk has spent an eye-popping $442 million to help Republicans win next week’s midterms—way more than the already-staggering $290 million that he gave GOP campaigns in 2024, including Donald Trump’s bid to regain the White House. Musk’s motives are personal. If the Democrats win back...Read more
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Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Discussions of race are everywhere and nowhere in 2025. On one hand, President Donald Trump is openly insulting Somali immigrants, describing entire nations as “shithole” countries, and insisting that...Read more
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. In A24’s Civil War, a journalist, played by Wagner Moura, pleads with the militiaman, played by Jesse Plemons, who has detained him and his colleagues at gunpoint. “We’re American.”...Read more
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