In the last few days before the 2026 elections, Flávio Bolsonaro and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva — Brazil’s two leading presidential candidates — were embroiled in controversies centered on the same issue: religion. On Aug. 23, during a debate in one of Brazil’s main TV networks, Flávio Bolsonaro, sonContinue Reading
America’s former pandemic darling Tony Fauci has crashed back into American politics—dragging several of his former top aides with him, along with the Democrat Party. This time, the issue is not masks, mandates, lockdowns, or six-foot distancing. It is a far more fundamental question: Did SARS-CoV-2 emerge from laboratory researchContinue Reading
Hello, and welcome back to The Franchise The Missouri gerrymandering fight felt a lot like old-school Republican politics: boring, procedural trickery to rig the systems of government in their favor. Denny Hoskins, the normal-seeming Republican Secretary of State, sidestepped the provision of the Missouri constitution that lets citizens bring newContinue Reading
Welcome to From the Politics Desk, a daily newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail. In today’s edition, senior national political reporter Sahil Kapur looks at how Trump is reacting to Republicans putting someContinue Reading
Stocks fell Monday alongside a jump in bond yields and erratic oil trading as geopolitical upheaval remained front and center for traders. The S&P 500 ended lower by 0.7% and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 0.9% as oil prices rose, pushing Brent crude oil back above $106 per barrel. Earlier inContinue Reading
This post by Cali-Dibang Nshua is part of Global Voices’ September 2026 Spotlight series, “Protest in Democracy.” With this Spotlight, we seek to explore the many forms of protest, the tactics states use to delegitimize and suppress them, and the complex relationship between protest and democracy. You can support thisContinue Reading
William Lawrence is a Democrat running to represent Michigan’s Lansing-area Seventh Congressional District with a campaign that largely focuses on data centers and affordability. It’s not an unusual story in 2026 — but not long ago, Lawrence was cutting his teeth in progressive politics as a co-founder of the SunriseContinue Reading
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox. Ari Emanuel is the executive chairman of W.M.E., one of the biggest talent agencies in Hollywood. He has overseen the careers of OprahContinue Reading
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. NERMEEN SHAIKH: Addressing the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, President Trump said the U.S. would not be reining in artificial intelligence, telling the gathered world leaders, quote, “Whoever wins AI wins.” PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: The United StatesContinue Reading
Could Ossoff Be Presidential Fix to Our Broken Politics? (Second column, 5th story, link…Read MoreContinue Reading
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