The Eight Dynamics That Will Shape the Election
And that will decide the outcome in November

And that will decide the outcome in November

The former president’s shakedown of oil executives may not have been illegal, but it is undeniably scandalous.

Fraud. Hush money. Election subversion. Mar-a-Lago documents. One place to keep track of the presidential candidate’s legal troubles.

It’s not that Trump bore any malice toward Daniels; it’s that she mattered to him only as a vehicle to sex.

Is Donald Trump trying to get thrown in jail?

Can you believe the chutzpah of these two?

Chaos in the streets—real, imagined, or exaggerated—is never to an incumbent’s advantage.

He can’t even seem to stay awake for his own trial.

Judge Juan Merchan sanctioned the former president for the first, and likely not the last, time.

At this morning’s oral argument, the justices debated the ins and outs of Trump’s dangerous proposition.

There was little drama in the courtroom yesterday. But the former president told a very different story to his supporters.

Attacking the judges handling his cases is likely to backfire. But if it works, it will really work.

Once you recognize the pattern, you’ll see it everywhere.

Israel faces international condemnation after its forces targeted vehicles from the aid group World Central Kitchen.

The former president got his latest reprieve when a court reduced the $464 million bond in his fraud case.

Hiring Ronna McDaniel as a contributor angered the network’s contributors, staff, and audience—and with seemingly no upside.

Political parties suffer when their focus narrows to the presidency.

No one alive has seen a race like this.

Republican members of Congress repeatedly heckled President Biden, who was happy to mix it up with them.

His political fortunes may be looking up, but his business problems are dire.

The Supreme Court and Republican Party members are all voting in his favor.

Nikki Haley’s campaign may have ended, but she can still determine its legacy.

The longtime Senate Republican leader gambled that he could outlast the former president—and lost.

Conservatives were right to warn about dodgy rumors. If only they’d taken their own advice.

He always manages to find a way.

They don’t work.

Justice Arthur Engoron’s ruling is not fatal for Trump’s business empire, but it might be a near-death experience.

Watching both men in office reveals a sharp distinction.

They’ve become yet another subsidiary of Trump Inc.

Robert Hur’s report recommends against charging the president but paints Biden as an “elderly man with a poor memory.”

In 1922, a musicologist imagined how future historians might judge the day’s jazz cynics.

Yesterday provided a small glimpse of the madness to come.

And rightly so.

A series of attacks on Iranian-backed militias in Syria and Iraq appeared aimed at reestablishing deterrence without sparking a wider conflict.

It’s delusions all the way down.

The group has a reasonable criticism of American politics, but its approach won’t help matters.

To avoid today’s eye-popping verdict, he just needed to stop talking about E. Jean Carroll.

How did the country end up with a choice that most of its voters don’t want?

Donald Trump’s disrespect for the law was on prominent display in a Manhattan courtroom earlier today.

Only two candidates took the stage in the final Republican debate before the Iowa caucus.
