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Florida’s Attorney General Is Too Busy Fighting Culture Wars

James Uthmeier, Florida’s attorney general, wants to be known as a politician who is all fight, all the time. The ambitious 38-year-old Georgetown law graduate considers himself the standard-bearer for the next generation of Republican culture warriors, and he’s using his office to make sure you notice.Uthmeier has gone all-in on ideological attacks since Governor Ron DeSantis appointed him to the seat. (It was vacated by Ashley Moody, whom DeSantis appointed to the US Senate to serve out the re...
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The Supreme Court Is Inviting More Election Chaos

The US Supreme Court did it again. In an unsigned ruling from its emergency docket, the Court gave the Trump administration another tool it can use to raise doubts about the integrity of the November elections.On Friday, the conservative majority greenlit the use of a flawed federal database to verify voters’ citizenship; noncitizen voting, although a miniscule problem, is one of President Donald Trump’s obsessions. While the decision is unlikely to have much of an impact on voters before the mi...
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Republicans Are Ghosting Trump. It’s Too Late

When Miami Representative Maria Elvira Salazar stood in front of the White House and recorded her first campaign ad, she told President Donald Trump he had gone “too far on immigration enforcement” and warned that Hispanics who had elected him to office had been betrayed. The loyal Republican’s straight-to-camera critique of Trump immediately became national news. But Salazar wasn’t sending a message to the president. He knew where she stood. She was signaling to fellow Republicans that they had...
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AI Can’t Hold City Hall Accountable

If AI hasn’t finished off your local newspaper yet, just wait. It will. OpenAI, the company that built ChatGPT, has called itself an “existential threat” to news publishers.Americans don’t fully appreciate what that means. We’re overdue for a serious conversation — and a tech reckoning. If AI hasn’t finished off your local newspaper yet, just wait. It will. OpenAI, the company that built ChatGPT, has called itself an “existential threat” to news publishers. Americans don’t fully appreciate wha...
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Ossoff’s Viral Clips Are Only Half the Story

Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff’s viral videos have so mastered the attention economy that the East Coast media is swooning with speculation that he could be a presidential contender in 2028. He has vigorously probed Trump administration officials during committee hearings. He coined the term “the Epstein class.” And he drew weeks of scrutiny to President Donald Trump’s close associate Natalie Harp with his derogatory quip about the president’s “travel with Natalie.”But voters this year are demanding...
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Vance’s Childcare Plan Pits Parents Against Each Other

Should the federal government give subsidies to parents who stay home to care for their young kids? Absolutely. Should it also subsidize childcare for working parents? For sure. This shouldn’t be an either-or question, but the Trump administration’s new childcare subsidy plan makes it one.Under the draft proposal, as previewed in a leaked report to the New York Times, stay-at-home parents in low-income households could get up to $9,000 a year to help supplant lost earnings. The money would come...
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Trump’s Mail-Ballot Attack Is Already Sowing Midterm Chaos

Over the holiday weekend, the Trump administration appealed a Friday ruling on mail-in ballots, asking the US Supreme Court to allow it to use the US Postal Service to choke off access to the voting method used by one-third of all Americans. But in many ways, the president has already won the battle by seeding doubt and chaos into the process.In the six months since President Donald Trump issued an executive order requiring the USPS to deliver mail ballots only to voters listed in an incomplete...
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The Fight Over Food Prices Won’t End Soon

Food prices play an outsized role in how Americans view affordability. When you’re bombarded with bigger price tags and shrinking product sizes on every trip to the grocery store, it’s an in-your-face reminder that we’re losing purchasing power. It’s leading to widespread anxiety. According to an Associated Press-NORC poll released in August, 41% of Americans say they are concerned about being able to afford groceries, up from 24% in April.If the 2024 election turned on the price of eggs, the 20...
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Welcome to the ‘You Can’t Trust Your Own Eyes’ Election

Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world This video of Republican Representative Thomas Massie having dinner with two Democratic colleagues was shared...
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Florida Is the Epicenter of the GOP’s Vaccine Problem

Republicans have painted themselves into a corner by undermining vaccines. Nowhere is this clearer than Florida, where the outgoing Republican governor and his potential successor have tried to use vaccine mandates to align themselves with President Donald Trump’s politically risky position. Governor Ron DeSantis rode his Covid-era public health skepticism to national prominence. Now his administration, in its waning months, is trying to further erode vaccine mandates that require children to ge...
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Trump-Backed Candidates Are Costing the GOP Its Future

Darline Graham, sister to former South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, romped to victory Tuesday over Republican Congressman Ralph Norman, a MAGA conservative, on the strength of her family name and the president’s aggressive push. She now faces Democrat Annie Andrews, a Charleston pediatrician, in the reliably red state.Graham’s victory demonstrated that President Donald Trump is more fixated on amassing his personal power than listening to voters. Darline Graham, sister to former South Carol...
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A Voter Enthusiasm Gap Is Steering the Midterms

We’re near the end of the 2026 primary election season and the state of American democracy is looking — sigh of relief — better than expected.As the Trump administration has trampled on the rule of law, tried to undermine elections and pursued a self-enriching agenda, Americans are pushing back and demanding change — from both parties. Democracy depends on trusting ordinary people to make consequential decisions and, this election cycle, voters have reminded us they’re doing just that. We’re ne...
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This Federal Program Is So Effective, the White House Can’t Stand It

Imagine a federally subsidized preschool program for the neediest families that not only allowed parents to work full-time but also set children up to become better students, earn higher wages, use fewer social services and have a lifetime of better health. Then imagine that program was effective enough to essentially pay for itself.That program exists — and has existed for over 60 years. It’s called Head Start and serves 716,000 children from birth to age 5.
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Two States Are Making the Case That Money Isn't Political Speech

Who should have more power — the people of the states or the corporations that are authorized by them? For legislators in Hawaii and Montana, the answer is most definitely the former, not the latter. Both states are advancing laws to put power back in the hands of people and get corporations out of the business of influencing elections by overcoming Citizens United, the landmark 2010 Supreme Court ruling on campaign finance.
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