Jim Newell

Washington, D.C.

Senior Political Writer at Slate

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Which California Dem Did Trump More Successfully Bait This Week, Newsom or Padilla?

2 weeks ago | slate.com | Jim Newell

Politics Sign up for the Surge, the newsletter that covers most important political nonsense of the week, delivered to your inbox every Saturday. Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, which feels as if it has to tell all the nation-states out there: Your desperate plays to get ranked in the Surge by doing wars on Thursday nights will not work. What will work? Resigning from Congress while in Guyana.
Stephen Miller Is About to Secure the Policy Achievement of His Lifetime. Democrats Are Strangely Silent.

2 weeks ago | slate.com | Jim Newell

Politics Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Stephen Miller is living his dream. The Santa Monica High School graduate who, 20 years ago, rebelled against the prevailing liberalism and celebrated multiculturalism of his classmates now runs policy for the president of the United States. And he’s convinced his boss, at last, to send in troops to quell all that he hates about Los Angeles County.
Two world-historical narcissists finally have their falling-out.

3 weeks ago | slate.com | Jim Newell

Politics Sign up for the Surge, the newsletter that covers most important political nonsense of the week, delivered to your inbox every Saturday. Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, a counseling newsletter about how to move on after breaking up with your best friend. We had a bunch of policy disputes between senators in mind for this week’s list, but then the big fun thing happened and this edition became more of a detailed recap of a pro wrestling feud.
There Are Lots of Things to Dislike About Trump’s Big Bill. Elon Musk Picked the Most Vapid One.

3 weeks ago | slate.com | Jim Newell

Politics Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. As the Senate began its work Tuesday on Republicans’ One Big, Beautiful Bill Act, former special government employee Elon Musk dropped a bomb. “I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore,” Musk, who supposedly was moving on from politics, posted on the social media platform he owns.
This anecdote casts the Democrats’ 2024 election loss in a new light.

3 weeks ago | slate.com | Jim Newell

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. There’s one vignette in Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s Original Sin, the thoroughly marketed new book detailing ex-President Joe Biden’s aborted reelection bid amid his physical and mental decline, that’s unlike much of the rest.
Is Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning Worth Seeing?

3 weeks ago | freerepublic.com | Jim Newell

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Elon Musk Learns a Lesson About Washington

4 weeks ago | slate.com | Jim Newell

Politics Sign up for the Surge, the newsletter that covers most important political nonsense of the week, delivered to your inbox every Saturday. Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, a newsletter that is to American politics what Brigitte Macron’s hand is to her husband’s face. Congress was out of town this week, so President Donald Trump and the judicial branch threw a rager in their absence.
Mike Johnson used Trump to his full advantage this week.

1 month ago | slate.com | Jim Newell

Politics Sign up for the Surge, the newsletter that covers most important political nonsense of the week, delivered to your inbox every Saturday. Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, a newsletter that sees how auto loans for American-made cars could soon be tax-deductible and has preordered a dozen new Ford F-150s. You’d be losing money not to! That’s just one benefit from the megabill that the House passed this week; downsides include, potentially, having less food.
Mike Johnson Pulled It Off. The Midterms Will Certainly Be Interesting.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Jim Newell

Sign up for the Surge, the newsletter that covers most important political nonsense of the week, delivered to your inbox every Saturday. Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, a newsletter that sees how auto loans for American-made cars could soon be tax-deductible and has preordered a dozen new Ford F-150s. You’d be losing money not to!That’s just one benefit from the megabill that the House passed this week; downsides include, potentially, having less food.
The House did its part for the one big beautiful bill.

1 month ago | slate.com | Jim Newell

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