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Al Gore compares Trump administration to Nazi Germany
The former vice president said the administration was "insisting on trying to create their own preferred version of reality."
12:16 AM on 04/24/2025 Politico Top Stories How Gen Z Became the Most Gullible Generation
The almighty algorithm is fueling conspiracy theories among young people and ruining their ability to tell fact from fiction on the internet.
10:00 AM on 04/24/2025 Politico Top Stories Meet the 8 MAGA Outlets Disrupting the White House Briefing Room
The AP is on the outs, but these new MAGA media stars are on the rise.
05:00 AM on 04/24/2025 Politico Top Stories The 7 Most Shameless Attention-Seekers in Congress
Our third annual list of representatives and senators who just can’t get enough attention from us.
04:45 AM on 04/24/2025 Politico Top Stories Opinion | The Iranian Negotiating Tactic the Trump Administration Doesnt Get
Sanctions and 'maximum pressure' have never made the clerical regime abandon its nuclear ambitions.
12:00 PM on 04/24/2025 Politico Top Stories How Professional Wrestling Explains Donald Trump's Washington
Donald Trump has a deep connection with the world of professional wrestling. Look no further than this weekend's WrestleMania.
07:00 AM on 04/24/2025 Politico Top Stories DC Isnt Becoming a State. But It Could Become Maryland.
Washingtonians may be aghast at the thought of reconnecting with their northern neighbor, but some think it’s preferable to appeasing Trump.
10:00 AM on 04/24/2025 Politico Top Stories How Mark Zuckerberg is flipping the script on kids safety online
The Facebook founder is lobbying Congress to leave his firm alone — and making headway.
04:00 PM on 04/20/2025 Politico Top Stories Just chaos: How Trumps White House could swing the war on Big Tech
Google and Meta are both under breakup threat at once. Apple and Amazon’s trials are next. And through it all, Washington wonders — will Trump bail them all out?
04:00 PM on 04/20/2025 Politico Top Stories Bonkers crazypants: American diplomats shaken by reports of possible cuts
A purported executive order calls for slashing State Department offices and bureaus and overhauling how diplomatic postings work.
11:28 AM on 04/20/2025 Politico Top Stories JB Pritzker burnishes his national brand as one of Trumps fiercest critics
The two-term governor hasn’t announced whether he’ll run for reelection next year, but is increasingly making high-profile appearances across the country.
12:01 PM on 04/20/2025 Politico Top Stories We Didnt Even See the Border Until Now: How Trump Has Driven Canadians and Americans Apart
Trump’s punishing tariffs have big implications for the upcoming Canadian election. It’s affecting personal relationships between the two countries, too.
07:00 AM on 04/20/2025 Politico Top Stories A Prerequisite for Democrats to Come Back to Power
Longtime Democratic strategist Doug Sosnik has some advice for the party — including to embrace the populist economics of Bernie Sanders and AOC.
10:00 AM on 04/20/2025 Politico Top Stories This high school course is dividing districts across California
The fight over ethnic studies is creating a quiet headache for Gov. Gavin Newsom.
02:00 PM on 04/20/2025 Politico Top Stories He was too conservative for the Republican Party. Now hes a leading candidate.
Bill Spadea, a leading contender to be governor of New Jersey, had a tumultuous conservative upbringing that put him at odds with fellow Republicans.
04:00 PM on 04/20/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump 'trying to change the subject' on deportee, Van Hollen says
Speaking in multiple interviews, Sen. Chris Van Hollen discussed the implications of the Abrego Garcia case.
11:22 AM on 04/20/2025 Politico Top Stories Putin violated his own Easter truce hundreds of times, Zelenskyy says
The Ukrainian president reiterated offers for a month-long ceasefire.
07:49 AM on 04/20/2025 Politico Top Stories World Bank climate message shifts amid Trump era uncertainty
The bank’s messaging on climate represents a delicate balancing act between the institution and the U.S., its largest shareholder.
10:00 AM on 04/20/2025 Politico Top Stories The nations cartoonists on the week in politics
Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here's an offering of the best of this week's crop, picked fresh off the Toonosphere. Edited by Matt Wuerker.
05:00 AM on 04/20/2025 Politico Top Stories April 2025Californias frustration with homelessness is boiling over, poll finds
A survey from POLITICO and the UC Berkeley Citrin Center asked registered voters if they supported an aggressive approach to clearing encampments.
09:00 AM on 04/20/2025 Politico Top Stories Canada Discovers Uniting Against Trump Is the Easy Part
The fabric of Canada’s nationhood makes Mark Carney’s one people, one country message difficult to sustain.
07:29 PM on 04/20/2025 Politico Top Stories Rubios firing of Marocco ignites a MAGA world meltdown
When Marco Rubio fired the man in charge of dismantling USAID, he made enemies inside the MAGA movement.
05:55 AM on 04/18/2025 Politico Top Stories Trumps Most Important Relationship Is Ending. And the Break-Up Isnt Pretty.
For a half-century Trump and the mainstream media have mutually benefited from a stormy symbiosis. Why is he trying to kill the institution that made him?
05:55 AM on 04/18/2025 Politico Top Stories Supreme Court to hear arguments on Trumps bid to start implementing his plan to end birthright citizenship
The court will consider a technical issue with potentially momentous consequences: the authority of lower-court judges to issue broad injunctions that block a president’s policies nationwide.
03:27 PM on 04/17/2025 Politico Top Stories Bessent privately urges caution as Trump attacks Powell
Any attempt to remove the Fed chair — a legally questionable option Trump considered in his first term — would feed instability in markets already woozy from the recent tariff whiplash.
10:17 AM on 04/17/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump promises a trade deal with EuropeJudge rules Google holds illegal ad monopoly
It's the latest in a series of blows by Washington against the trillion-dollar tech giant.
11:22 AM on 04/17/2025 Politico Top Stories Google is about to get the Ted Cruz treatment
As Meta and X bow to Trump, top Republicans in Congress have their sights on Google next.
04:45 AM on 04/17/2025 Politico Top Stories The Ivy League resistance is just getting started
The nascent pushback, showcased by Harvard’s decision to reject several proposals from Trump this week, is a notable turnaround from a year ago.
12:36 PM on 04/17/2025 Politico Top Stories The return of Robert Hur
The former special counsel is representing Harvard University in its battle with the Trump administration, after drawing the ire of the left for his characterization of Joe Biden last year.
01:28 PM on 04/17/2025 Politico Top Stories An influential GOP senator is contradicting Trumps team and getting away with it
The Senate Armed Services Chair has found a way to appease the president and push back on the administration.
06:23 AM on 04/17/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump Looks Willing to Write Off an Entire Continent
Administration officials say African countries can’t just invoke “China” and get aid.
10:01 AM on 04/17/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump hammers Federal Reserve chief Powell: Termination cannot come fast enough!
U.S. president lashes his central bank nemesis for not cutting interest rates fast enough.
07:27 AM on 04/17/2025 Politico Top Stories Ice cream, outlandish ideas and absolute loyalty: Inside Trump and Lutnick's close relationship
Most Trump allies are trying to get Howard Lutnick ousted from his job. But his friendship with the president protects him.
05:55 AM on 04/17/2025 Politico Top Stories The ideological twist in Elon Musks tariff opposition
To flood the world with robotaxis and humanoid robots, Elon Musk needs open markets — and the kind of globalized trade Donald Trump’s tariff war is closing off.
08:01 AM on 04/17/2025 Politico Top Stories The Great Grovel: How Trump forced elite institutions to bend to his will
The lessons we can take from how easily institutions have folded to Trump’s remarkable revenge campaign.
05:00 AM on 04/17/2025 Politico Top Stories Pentagons SWAT team of nerds resigns en masse
Employees of a defense tech unit say they were sidelined by DOGE. “Either we die quickly or we die slowly,” says the director.
01:04 PM on 04/17/2025 Politico Top Stories Opinion | Trumps Attack on Harvard Is Ridiculous. But It Still Needs to Change.
The university was right to stand up to Trump. It still needs to change.
11:08 AM on 04/17/2025 Politico Top Stories Opinion | 7 Critical Things Trump Doesnt Understand about Putin |