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1. Checks and Balance newsletter: Who is (or was) the smartest person in government?
2. Texas troopers are in more and more lethal car chases
4. The cover-up is worse than the group chat
5. White House denials over the Signal snafu ring hollow
6. America’s Supreme Court tackles a thorny voting-rights case
7. A shambolic leak reveals Team Trump’s contempt for allies
8. MAGA is already rewiring American education
9. Checks and Balance newsletter: Which past is MAGA promising to revive?
10. Donald Trump is testing more than America’s constitution
11. What a Christian theatre town can teach Trump’s Kennedy Centre
12. The American and Russian right are aligning
13. Why America has not passed a law to treat addiction better
15. Did Donald Trump wilfully defy a court order?
16. The pandemic hit pupils hardest in America’s Democrat-leaning states
17. America is facing a beef deficit
18. Checks and Balance newsletter: Elon Musk’s low opinion of the Democrats—and America
19. Donald Trump is setting new boundaries for political speech
20. The education department is halved overnight
21. Jared Isaacman, the high-school dropout who will lead NASA
22. A selection of emails received by employees of the CDC
23. America’s trade hawks fear the gaps in Trump’s tariff wall
24. Young Americans are getting happier
25. How DOGE is driving America’s public-health guardians mad
26. Checks and Balance newsletter: Depending on America is a vulnerability
27. Donald Trump deploys new tactics to manage the media
28. The women vying to make conservatism fashionable online
29. DOGE shutters the government’s in-house tech consultancy
30. Three principles are at play in the cases concerning DOGE
31. Democrats are struggling to respond to Trump
32. Donald Trump’s Washington reaches a new partisan peak
33. Andrew Cuomo plots a comeback in New York
34. Trump’s armed forces won’t look like Biden’s
35. Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s savvy dealmaker
36. America’s Gen Z has got religion
37. America has never had state media like it does today
38. Critics of Medicaid point to a rigorous study conducted 15 years ago
39. To make their numbers work, Republicans must slash health spending
40. Edward Blum has new allies in his fight against affirmative action
41. The spread of mariachi tells a very American story
42. Elon Musk’s outfit is running into opposition from Donald Trump’s appointees
43. Donald Trump sacks America’s top military brass
44. Checks and Balance newsletter: The journalist’s dilemma of covering Trump
45. Why so many children in America have ADHD
46. In Texas, vaccine-choice activists are ascendant
47. Donald Trump’s foreign-aid cuts threaten his rural voters
48. DOGE attacks a bastion of Republican internationalism
49. For Donald Trump, the resignations are the point
50. Is Elon Musk’s war on fraud just cover for a power grab?
51. So far, mass deportation has been more rhetoric than reality
52. Checks and Balance newsletter: Donald Trump’s pick-and-choose federalism
53. Elon Musk has been pushed out of the Treasury
54. How Bob Dylan broke free
55. What happened next at USAID
56. Donald Trump wants states and cities to do as they are told
57. Donald Trump and the art of the quid pro quo
58. Donald Trump’s first 100 days
59. Inside the world’s most famous aeroplane boneyard
60. Avian flu in America is a political problem and a health threat
61. What is Elon Musk getting up to with America’s payment system?
62. Checks and Balance newsletter: Donald Trump’s scheming is costing America
63. Donald Trump is turning payback into policy
64. New York City commits to involuntary commitment
65. Florida comes to Washington, DC
66. The clean-up after the LA fires is already revealing tensions
67. RFK junior and Tulsi Gabbard, set to sail through a cowed Senate
68. Elon Musk is shredding America’s government as he did Twitter
69. Checks and Balance newsletter: What 1970s television reveals about America
70. Donald Trump revives ideas of a Star Wars-like missile shield
71. Donald Trump’s defining decade
72. An alternative theory to explain America’s murder spike in 2020
73. America’s foreign aid pause puts lives at risk
74. Donald Trump goes to war with his employees
76. The White House has been fluid on gender for a decade
77. A controversial idea to hand even more power to the president
78. Checks and Balance newsletter: Trump revives McKinley’s imperial legacy
79. Tom Homan, unleashed
80. To end birthright citizenship, Donald Trump misreads the constitution
81. Donald Trump cries “invasion” to justify an immigration crackdown
82. An unfinished election may shape a swing state’s future
83. Ross Ulbricht, pardoned by Donald Trump, was a pioneer of crypto-crime
84. Two presidents compete over the worst abuse of the pardon power
85. Donald Trump has rewritten the history of January 6th
86. Following Trump’s pardons, the Proud Boys are back in the game
87. America really could enter a golden age
88. To end birthright citizenship, Trump misreads the constitution
89. The new American imperialism
90. The beginning of the end of the Trump era
91. Pam Bondi seems like a relatively safe pair of hands
92. Checks and Balance newsletter: Joe Biden’s farewell shot at the oligarchy
93. A protest against America’s TikTok ban is mired in contradiction
94. Joe Biden wound up serving Donald Trump
95. How bad will the smoke be for Angelenos’ health?
96. Should you have to prove your age before watching porn?
97. Tulsi Gabbard, Sean Penn and the hunt for an American hostage
98. How flush Americans feel depends on their views of Donald Trump
99. How will calamity change Los Angeles?
100. How hard is it to run the Pentagon?
101. Checks and Balance: Fires, Greenland and the systematic organisation of hatreds
102. Time could be running out for TikTok
103. When treating snakebites, American hospitals turn to zoos
104. Most Americans think moderate drinking is fine
105. Mike Johnson has his old job back, for now
106. America’s bet on industrial policy starts to pay off for semiconductors
107. Los Angeles against the flames
108. The US Army needs less good, cheaper drones to compete
109. Trump has faced down Republican dissidents in Congress
111. Russ Vought: Donald Trump’s holy warrior
112. Jimmy Carter reshaped his home town
113. The Bourbon Street attack was part of a new pattern
114. Duelling arguments take shape in the TikTok-ban case
115. Homelessness rises to a record level in America
116. RFK junior is half right about American health care
117. What should companies do to keep bosses safe?
118. Matt Gaetz v the ethics committee
119. Overall, American states are becoming more democratic
120. After a chaotic scramble, Congress strikes a budget deal
121. How the Democrats wandered away from America’s workers
122. Donald Trump’s DEI assessment
123. The Biden administration pursued a mistaken policy on LNG exports
124. Is the opioid epidemic finally burning out?
125. Checks and Balance newsletter: America’s health-care paradox
126. Tulsi Gabbard delights in provocation
128. The Young Thug trial could be Fani Willis’s last big act
129. Luigi Mangione’s manifesto reveals his hatred of insurance companies
130. Donald Trump threatened to smackdown the education department
131. An Ivy League graduate is charged over Brian Thompson’s murder
133. America’s best-known practitioner of youth gender medicine is being sued
134. Kash Patel, Donald Trump’s wizard, wants to reform the FBI
135. Dinesh D’Souza admits his documentary was fiction
136. The US Supreme Court appears likely to uphold a medical ban affecting trans youth
137. The FDA does not know what chemicals are added to foods
138. A health-care CEO is murdered in Manhattan
139. Would you put Pete Hegseth second in America’s chain of command?
140. A big transgender-rights case heads to America’s Supreme Court
141. Donald Trump may find it harder to dominate America’s conversation
142. An FBI sting operation catches Jackson’s mayor taking big bribes
143. America’s rural-urban divide nurtures wannabe state-splitters
144. Does Donald Trump have unlimited authority to impose tariffs?
145. As Jack Smith exits, Donald Trump’s allies hint at retribution
146. Democratic states are preparing for Donald Trump’s return
147. Donald Trump and Tulsi Gabbard are coming for the spooks
148. Checks and Balance newsletter: Trump is embracing a shift in Republican priorities
149. Matt Gaetz withdraws from consideration as America’s attorney-general
150. How Donald Trump could win the future
151. Democrats are still processing their defeat
152. Will Donald Trump now pardon the January 6th rioters?
153. Congestion pricing in New York gets the go-ahead after all. Maybe
154. How gaga is MAHA?
155. Los Angeles decides it is sick of scandal
156. What will Donald Trump do about legal immigration?
157. Howard Lutnick, Donald Trump’s pick for commerce secretary
158. Checks and Balance newsletter: Readers’ hopes and fears for a Trump presidency
159. What would Robert F. Kennedy junior mean for American health?
160. The promise Donald Trump is sure to keep
161. The demographic detail of Donald Trump’s victory
162. Senate Republicans flex their independence
163. Climate change and the next administration
164. Republicans finally win the coveted trifecta
165. The man picked as defence secretary wants to purge the Pentagon
166. What Trump’s picks suggest about how his presidency will go
167. Mike Waltz wants America to focus on the threat from China
168. How to get hired by Donald Trump
169. Dana White, martial-arts magnate and Trump cheerleader
170. Did sexism propel Donald Trump to power?
171. What a second Trump presidency will bring
172. Opinion polls underestimated Donald Trump again
173. Donald Trump also won a reprieve from justice
175. What role might Trump give Robert F. Kennedy junior?
176. What a Republican trifecta will mean for governing
177. Ballot-measure results reveal the power of state policy
178. Democrats need to understand: Americans think they’re worse
179. Donald Trump wins big and fast
180. Hispanic men helped propel Donald Trump back to the White House
181. The Republicans gain control of the Senate
182. Donald Trump claims victory
183. Florida is the first state to reject an abortion-rights measure
184. Three reasons why Donald Trump might outperform the polls
185. Kamala Harris moves ahead—just—in our final election forecast
186. Financial markets are betting on a Trump victory
187. The risk of election violence in America is real
188. US House of Representatives elections: live results
189. US Senate elections: live results
190. Live results of the US presidential election
192. A much-watched poll from Iowa points to a Harris landslide
193. How to win Nevada
194. Checks and Balance newsletter: Michelle Obama spotlights reproductive rights and women’s role in America
195. Dan Osborn shows some Democratic ideas can outperform the party
196. Why the Trump campaign is spending heavily on ads on trans issues
197. What happens in the days after America’s election
198. Election lawsuits are flooding America’s courts
199. Why Republicans have failed to scrap the Department of Education
200. This campaign is also demonstrating America’s democratic vitality
201. The fight to win the most unruly institution in Washington
202. What to watch for on election night, and beyond
203. Will Donald Trump’s bros turn out?
204. What are the odds of an upset in Texas or Florida?
205. Why Kamala Harris’s chances of victory just jumped
206. Could a mechanic in Nebraska determine control of the Senate?
207. How wrong could America’s pollsters be?
208. War is not the only reason some Muslims are ditching the Democrats
209. Donald Trump returns to New York for a bombastic closing pitch
210. Donald Trump’s potential SCOTUS picks
211. The data hinted at racism among white doctors. Then scholars looked again
212. Susie Wiles, the unassuming operative powering Donald Trump’s campaign
213. Checks and Balance: The 50-year plan
214. Gay voters are smitten with Kamala Harris
215. Kamala Harris’s closing argument
216. Donald Trump’s terrifying closing message
217. Will Hurricane Helene tip the vote in North Carolina?
218. How to read America’s early-voting numbers
219. The Americans who think Trump is anointed by God
220. Why Donald Trump has moved ahead in our election forecast
221. Checks and Balance newsletter: Trump and Harris’s duel over EVs
222. A culture of conspiracy haunts Arizona’s elections
223. Brandon Johnson is giving Chicago’s teachers’ union everything
224. One big thing Donald Trump and Elon Musk have in common
225. Vital election races in Wisconsin are awfully close
226. Democrats struggle to limit the loss of black voters in Georgia
227. Republicans ramp up efforts to court Amish voters in Pennsylvania
228. Voters won’t thank Kamala Harris for the state of the economy
229. Why Larry Hogan’s long-odds bid for a Senate seat matters
230. Polarisation by education is remaking American politics
231. Checks and Balance newsletter: Partisan positions have changed drastically over the past 50 years
232. Hurricane Milton inundates Florida
233. Shirley Chisholm is still winning
234. US election forecast: who will control the House of Representatives?
235. US election forecast: who will win control of the Senate?
236. The next American president will be a China hawk
237. Will the next president follow Israel into war with Iran?
238. Both candidates pledge to fortify America. How big will they go?
239. On energy and climate, Trump and Harris are different by degrees
240. The mysteries of Melania: Mrs Trump’s memoir
241. America’s presidential election marks a fork in the road for Ukraine
242. Could an “October surprise” upset America’s election?
243. Donald Trump is preparing an assault on America’s immigration system
244. The US tax code will change next year; the presidential election will determine how
245. The Supreme Court begins another contentious term
246. What America’s presidential election means for world trade
247. Checks and Balance newsletter: gender politics in the election
248. Hurricane Helene was America’s deadliest storm in nearly two decades
249. Crypto bros v cat ladies: gender and the 2024 election
250. Many Americans can decide their own policies. What will they choose?
251. A ports strike shows the stranglehold one union has on trade
252. The vice-presidential debate was surprisingly cordial
253. Tim Walz is the most popular candidate on either ticket
254. Harris’s and Trump’s economic plans both promise utopia
255. The US Army’s chief of staff has ideas on the force of the future
256. Checks and Balance newsletter: J.D. Vance and the politics of storytelling
257. The death penalty is disappearing in America
258. What J.D. Vance is learning from Donald Trump
259. America’s growing row over policies for transgender prisoners
260. Kamala Harris is outspending Donald Trump. Will it matter?
261. Kamalamania and the drive for abortion rights are a potent mix
262. Eric Adams, New York’s mayor, is indicted on bribery charges
263. Recent special elections bode well for Democrats
264. A threatened ports strike is already having an impact in America
265. Mark Robinson has hijacked his own campaign in North Carolina
266. How the right is taking culture war to culture itself
267. What is the effect of the Supreme Court’s affirmative-action ban?
268. Pennsylvania, the crucial battleground in America’s election
269. Eric Adams’s friends keep having their phones taken away
270. Kamala Harris’s post-debate bounce is now visible in the polls
271. Who is Ryan Routh, Donald Trump’s would-be assassin?
272. Another attempt to kill Trump raises fears of political violence
273. The never-Trump movement has leaders. What about followers?
274. Checks and Balance newsletter: Why can’t politicians just admit when they’re wrong?
275. Ginni Thomas, battle-hardened conservative and bugaboo of Democrats
276. America’s college heads revise rules for handling campus protests
277. Democratic control of the Senate depends on a seven-fingered farmer
278. The systemic bias Kamala Harris must overcome in order to win
279. Kamala Harris makes Donald Trump look out of his depth
280. Astrologers are predicting the result of America’s election
281. How Boston became the safest big city in America
282. Checks and Balance newsletter: The enduring game of political ads in America
283. Why Kamala Harris has the advantage in debating Donald Trump
284. Where is Kamala Harris’s convention bounce?
285. America’s endless summers are good for mosquitoes, too
286. The Harris campaign hopes North Carolina will finally deliver
287. The Trump campaign fires a barrage of negative advertisements
288. The Onion’s cutting edge: paper
289. Checks and Balance newsletter: Trump’s mass-deportation fantasy
290. Americans’ love affair with big cars is killing them
291. Donald Trump’s dream of mass deportations is a fantasy
292. What Texas’s oldest motel reveals about the rural South
293. The fate of America’s for-profit colleges hinges on the election
294. To hold the Senate, Democrats have to do something extraordinary
295. Why Texas Republicans are souring on crypto
296. Jerome Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve
297. Checks and Balance newsletter: The alternate-reality Democratic National Convention
298. Kamala Harris completes her reinvention
299. NASA insists that two astronauts are not “stranded” in space
300. Police are killing more Americans than ever. Where’s the outrage?
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