Wars are rarely lost first on the battlefield. They are lost in leaders’ minds − when leaders misread what they and their adversaries can do, when their confidence substitutes for comprehension, and when the last war is mistaken for the next one. The Trump administration’s miscalculation of Iran is notContinue 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, Natasha Korecki explores what last night’s Illinois primaries could mean for Gov. JB Pritzker’s political future.Continue Reading
UK Special Coverage Each party faces difficulties in orienting itself toward an unpopular war. UK Special Coverage The UK may have chosen not to join the American-Israeli airstrikes on Iran, but it has not been able to escape the political fallout. The question of whether to intervene has proven agonizingContinue Reading
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Mar. 16, 2026, 7:49 PM EDT By Nicholas Grossman The Iran war is exposing President Donald Trump’s unfitness for national leadership. The lie-filled bluster and escalation he relied on to succeed in business and domestic politics aren’t working, and the situation is out of his control. The world is interconnectedContinue Reading
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Welcome to the online version of 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, our Capitol Hill team explores how President Donald Trump’s insistence on pushingContinue Reading
Back in 2019, it looked like Oregon lawmakers might finally commit to ending the state’s outlier status on campaign finance. I had just authored an investigative series for The Oregonian/OregonLive, my previous newsroom, revealing how Oregon’s lack of limits on campaign donations had allowed corporate America to give more toContinue Reading
This is the online version of 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, our Capitol Hill team reports on Sen. John Cornyn’s change of heartContinue Reading
Watch TV, scroll social media or listen to politicians, and the verdict seems clear: Americans are hopelessly divided and increasingly hateful.It’s a ubiquitous, emphatic, verifiable … lie.Why it matters: Most Americans are too busy for social media, too normal for politics, too rational to tweet. They work…Read MoreContinue Reading
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