Jim Newell

4 days 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 dares to dream: If Bob from Chicago can become Pope, can the Surge from Washington, D.C., become grand ayatollah of Iran? What’s the pay? This week: Brian Kemp has better things to do than spend three days a week in the Senate. Former President Joe Biden offered proof of life.

1 week ago | slate.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 has written 3,400 kilos of words about politics, saving 258 million American lives. You will not believe how much politics happened this week. President Donald Trump pissed off Canada so much that they elected another lib, and Trump is delighted.

1 week 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. Have all the people who “disapprove” of President Donald Trump considered that if he wasn’t president, there’s a good chance they would have died in the last 100 days? This is the message from the Justice Department, as Attorney General Pam Bondi has spent the week sharing some remarkable statistics. April 29 was Fentanyl Awareness Day.

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. At long last, the time has come for House Republicans to answer the $880 billion question. That’s the amount in cuts that the Energy and Commerce Committee, which oversees Medicaid, must find to help cover the cost of President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill” comprising his legislative agenda.

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, the favorite politics newsletter of the Easter Bunny and its antithesis—the devil—alike. We all knew it was coming, but now we’re at the part of the script where Trump might ruin the central bank. House Republican moderates are warning that they won’t agree to Medicaid cuts, but guess what? They will.