Earlier this year, conservatives on social media claimed an unlikely new icon. It wasn’t a podcaster with questionable views or a libertarian businessman selling a course or any particular ideology. It was actress Sydney Sweeney, Euphoria star and the recent lead of the rom-com Anyone but You. Following her Saturday Night Live hosting gig in…
Thousands of federal bureaucrats have lived through one Donald Trump administration. Many are not sure they can or will survive a second. POLITICO spoke with more than a dozen civil servants, political appointees under President Joe Biden and recently departed Biden administration staffers in the days since the presidential election was called for Trump, who…
The 2024 election is making history. Sarah McBride will be the first openly transgender member of Congress. U.S. Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester will be the first woman and first Black woman to represent Delaware in the Senate. With Democrat Angela Alsobrooks also winning her race in Maryland, this marks the first time that the country…
AI search company Perplexity is putting to the test whether it’s a good idea to use AI to serve crucial voting information with a new Election Information Hub it announced on Friday. The hub offers things like AI-generated answers to voting questions and summaries of candidates, and on November 5th, Election Day, the company says…
Political violence has reached alarming levels in the US over the last few years. The January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol, the attack on former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, and multiple assassination attempts against former President Donald Trump are all examples of America’s increasingly polarized and perilous environment. Now, the 2024 election could…
A new court brief filed by Special Counselor Jack Smith on Wednesday provides extensive detail about how Donald Trump “resorted to crimes to try to stay in office” after the 2020 election, and Trump himself is pitching a fit over it. Drawing from his usual tired collection of stock phrases and attacks on critics, Trump…
