July 2026

How Old-School Race Animus Could Shake Up the Michigan Senate Race
Dispatches from a weekend with Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens and their efforts to win over black Democratic voters.
 • Jonathan Cohn
Why Gretchen Whitmer’s Senate Endorsement Matters
It reinforces Haley Stevens’s message in Michigan—but also confirms something Abdul El-Sayed has been saying.
 • Jonathan Cohn
Exclusive: Trump Preparing a New Attack on Head Start
The administration is considering a proposal to gut the program’s instructional standards while adding new restrictions tied to immigration.
 • Jonathan Cohn
When You’re Sliding Into First and You Feel You’re Gonna Burst, Read This Story
What you need to know about the cyclospora outbreak.
 • Jonathan Cohn
The Supreme Court Broke Independent Agencies. Here’s a Way to Slow the Damage.
A crypto bill before Congress offers a chance to keep presidents from turning independent commissions into one-party instruments.
 • Todd Phillips
Why Mallory McMorrow’s Campaign Didn’t Survive
Its demise says a lot about the mood in Michigan—and the rest of America.
 • Jonathan Cohn
Donald Trump Is Bringing Back ‘Death Panels’
There’s a good kind and a bad kind, and it looks like we’ll be getting both.
 • Jonathan Cohn

June 2026

These Are the Medical Miracles Trump Could Take Away
The story of a life-changing breakthrough and the federally funded research that made it possible.
 • Jonathan Cohn
Trump’s Deportation Agenda Awaits SCOTUS—With Grandma at Risk
The status of hundreds of thousand refugees will be determined in the coming days. Seniors dependent on caregivers may suffer tremendously for it.
 • Jonathan Cohn
How a Florida City Saved Its Pride Symbol from MAGA Erasure
Ron DeSantis met his match in a coalition of LGBTQ activists and straight city commissioners who refused to be bullied.
 • Jonathan Cohn
The Obamacare ‘Phantom’ Menace
Republicans insist the program is full of fake enrollees. Meanwhile, millions of real people are losing coverage.
 • Jonathan Cohn