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Photo: Matt Rourke/AP Photo During the murky debate among Republicans about the legislative strategy for implementing Donald Trump’s agenda, the key sticking point has been whether to rush out of the gate with one filibuster-proof budget reconciliation bill focused on “border security” and reversing Democratic climate-change policies, followed by a second bill doing everything else […]

Photo: @margomartin/X From Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg to the Village People, it seems like everyone is sucking up to Donald Trump these days. But the folks at Coca-Cola have really managed to distinguish themselves by giving the president-elect an honor that is dumb, unnecessary, and hypocritical. On Tuesday night, Margo Martin, Trump’s deputy director

Photo: Ramadan Abed/Reuters On Wednesday, U.S. officials announced that Israeli and Hamas have come to a tentative agreement on a cease-fire and the release of hostages, halting the brutal warfare that has decimated the Gaza Strip. The New York Times reports that the first phase of the deal will take six weeks, during which Israel

Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Getty Images Pete Hegseth’s views on women in combat were a matter of public record long before the Senate heard his case to become Donald Trump’s Defense secretary. Women are “life-givers,” Hegseth wrote in his 2024 book, The War on Warriors. “Dads push us to take risks. Moms put the training

Photo: Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters Since President-elect Donald Trump nominated former Fox News host Pete Hegseth to serve as his secretary of Defense, all eyes have been on Iowa senator Joni Ernst. Hegseth has been accused of sexual assault and of denigrating women servicemembers. If he wins the backing of Ernst, a combat veteran and assault survivor

Photo: Elsa/Getty Images The NFL needs no help reaching maximum market penetration, particularly as, next week, we enter an uncertain and potentially terrifying new world in which one suspects a large swath of the populace is going to be particularly eager to dive face-first into whatever available distraction is within reach. But as the league

Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photos: Getty Images There is little to Mark Zuckerberg beyond the desire to make money. Values have been grafted onto him over the decades, and he has espoused various opinions to appease whomever holds power at a particular time. He is one of the richest men in human history, and he is deadly

Photo: Andrew Chin/Getty Images From Mark Zuckerberg to Jack Smith to Senate Republicans, everywhere you look these days there’s someone giving up and doing exactly what Donald Trump wants. Now you can add the Village People to the list. While the group once sent Trump a cease-and-desist letter demanding that he stop using their music,

Photo: Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg/Getty Images In many respects, the choice of Fox News personality Pete Hegseth to become secretary of Defense was Donald Trump’s most precedent-defying second-term Cabinet nomination given the enormous magnitude of the job, the nominee’s manifest lack of experience for it, and various concerns about his personal conduct, management capacities, and attitudes toward

Photo: Pat Benic/Bloomberg/Getty Images The state funeral for Jimmy Carter was attended by all five living presidents and their spouses — except Michelle Obama. Though CNN reported that the former First Lady missed the January 9 memorial due to a scheduling conflict, searches for “is Michelle Obama sick” spiked on Google. Thankfully, it does not