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Photo: Jamie Kelter Davis/Bloomberg/Getty Images This has been one of Washington’s favorite games lately: When will Elon leave? The planted axiom is that Elon Musk’s bizarre and wildly destructive adventures as head of the shambolically established Department of Government Efficiency can’t last long, for multiple reasons. First, his far-flung corporate empire could use more of […]

Photo: Instagram/@ivankatrump On the night Donald Trump launched his 2024 presidential campaign, Ivanka Trump announced she was swearing off politics. (As a source later told the New York Post, serving as a White House adviser throughout her father’s first term “took its toll” on poor Ivanka.) Since that 2022 announcement Ivanka has mostly kept to

Photo: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters As the legal saga over Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s deportation to El Salvador continues in the courts, the political battle over the Trump administration’s handling of the case is really sizzling. Team Trump has stepped up its argument that Democratic and civil-libertarian sympathy for Abrego Garcia’s plight betrays indifference to the victims of

Photo: Gregory Shamus/Getty Images People watch sports for all sorts of reasons. There’s the thrill of competition. The visceral, kinetic excitement of watching history unfold in real time. The wonder of watching human beings extend the limits of what is physically possible. Geographic loyalty and pride. Escapism. Nostalgia. Boredom. Gambling. I cycle between all these

Photo: Victor Llorente Alex Soros lives in the duplex penthouse of a building in downtown Manhattan. The elevator opens onto the apartment, where a framed photograph of Alex and his fiancée, Huma Abedin, sits on a small table by the entrance. Apart from its artwork I am asked not to identify for security reasons, his

Photo: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call/Getty Images In public Republicans tend to echo Team Trump’s invective toward “radical Left activist” judges who dare to question the 47th president’s efforts to massively expand his own powers. But despite the lusty cheerleading for Trump’s authoritarian tendencies, you have to figure that privately many Republicans hope the federal courts rein

Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Pete Hegseth was barely able to get confirmed as Donald Trump’s Defense Secretary, and following a series of scandals — including the revelation that he shared U.S. war plans in a second Signal group chat last month — it appears increasingly likely that he’ll be the first member of Trump’s cabinet

Photo: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images Over the past four months, President Trump’s entry into the world of cryptocurrency has been extremely fruitful and extremely unregulated, thanks to the fact that his administration has stripped pretty much all regulations from this world. But one of the president’s many crypto ventures — and probably the dumbest one

Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images This Easter, the White House tried to show that President Trump is making good on his campaign promise to “bring back Christianity.” Trump kicked things off with a Palm Sunday statement saying, “This week, we pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon our beloved Nation.” On Wednesday night, he

Photo: Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times/AP Photo Earlier this month, as Democrats in Wisconsin and across the country celebrated a victory in the most scrutinized state Supreme Court races in recent history, the leader of the state’s party decided it was time to step down. Ben Wikler was elected to lead the Wisconsin Democratic Party in 2019