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UK politics
fromwww.bbc.com
17 hours ago

Mahmood to press on with immigration reforms despite by-election defeat

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood continues asylum and immigration reforms despite Green Party criticism and a Labour by-election loss, arguing the government must not misinterpret the results as voter rejection of stricter immigration policies.
#immigration-policy
NYC politics
fromFortune
1 day ago

How Zohran Mamdani and his fake newspaper charmed Trump, led to promise of major housing deal | Fortune

A New York City mayor used a mock newspaper front page to appeal to Trump's media awareness and secure his support for a $21 billion federal housing investment project at Sunnyside Yard in Queens.
UK politics
fromwww.bbc.com
1 day ago

Green win will prompt soul searching within Labour and questions for Starmer

The Green Party won their first Westminster by-election in Gorton and Denton, with Labour finishing third, exposing vulnerabilities to both left-wing and right-wing challengers.
NYC politics
fromBusiness Insider
1 day ago

Zohran Mamdani's savvy with Trump is lighting up the internet

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani secured housing concessions from President Trump during an Oval Office meeting by presenting flattering newspaper mockups, generating significant social media attention.
UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days ago

What a Gorton byelection win would mean for Reform, Greens and Labour

A Reform UK victory in Gorton and Denton would validate Nigel Farage's poll lead as genuine voter support rather than protest sentiment, while a Green win would pose the greatest threat to Starmer's leadership.
fromIntelligencer
2 days ago

Cornyn's Nasty Attack on Paxton May Haunt Texas Republicans

The Cornyn/NRSC JFC is airing a new ad accusing Ken Paxton of "sleeping around with a married mother of seven" and calling him a "wife-cheater and fraud." Has there been another instance of a committee going so hard against a candidate who it may have to support in a few months?
US politics
#state-of-the-union
fromFortune
3 days ago
US politics

Trump claims 'the roaring economy is roaring like never before' as only 39% of voters agree | Fortune

fromFortune
3 days ago
US politics

Trump claims 'the roaring economy is roaring like never before' as only 39% of voters agree | Fortune

fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days ago

The AfD is flirting with Nazi history but moral outrage alone won't stop the far right | Katja Hoyer

In a country deeply conscious of its own history, the party, now riding high in the polls, has to decide whether it rejects or embraces Hitler as an ideological antecedent. Rather than answering definitively, the party is deliberately opaque. It flirts with the Nazi legacy without explicitly committing to it. Far from putting voters off, this strategic ambiguity cultivates a surprisingly powerful mix of outrage and plausible deniability.
Europe politics
New York City
fromGothamist
1 week ago

Mamdani says tax hike is needed to stop 'fiscal crisis.' Critics aren't buying it.

Mayor Mamdani's proposed property tax hike to fill a multibillion-dollar budget gap faces strong criticism as politically driven and potentially harmful to homeowners and tenants.
#donald-trump
fromFortune
1 week ago
US politics

Trump is 'dumb as a fox,' master of 'the wall of sound' and never above 'the last resort of scoundrels': Yale scholar breaks it down in new book | Fortune

fromFortune
1 week ago
US politics

Trump is 'dumb as a fox,' master of 'the wall of sound' and never above 'the last resort of scoundrels': Yale scholar breaks it down in new book | Fortune

UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

The slow implosion of Keir Starmer's government is the ultimate repudiation of Labour minimalism' | Andy Beckett

Labour's long-standing minimalism—prioritizing moderate, unthreatening positioning—has failed to meet contemporary governance needs and created internal crisis.
fromThe Atlantic
1 week ago

The Rise of Stephen Miller

Since Donald Trump's first term, Stephen Miller has risen into an architect and enforcer of some of the president's most controversial policies. On Washington Week With The Atlantic, panelists joined to discuss the senior aide's rise, and how he's become one of the most powerful figures in the Trump administration.
US politics
US politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Gavin Newsom's likely presidential bid is built on broken promises | Gil Duran

Gavin Newsom is mimicking Trump's crude style to gain attention while his gubernatorial record shows broken promises and abandoned progressive pledges.
fromFast Company
2 weeks ago

How Trump's position on U.S. home prices risks a 'generational war' in the midterms

President Donald Trump wants to keep home prices high, bypassing calls to ramp up construction so people can afford what has been a ticket to the middle class.Trump has instead argued for protecting existing owners who have watched the values of their homes climb. It's a position that flies in the face of what many economists, the real estate industry, local officials and apartment dwellers say is needed to fix a big chunk of America's affordability problem.
US politics
UK politics
fromwww.bbc.com
2 weeks ago

Why McSweeney's departure could prove perilous for the PM

Morgan McSweeney's departure exposes Keir Starmer's dependence on his behind-the-scenes strategic control, raising questions about Labour's direction and No 10 culture.
#labour-party
Canada news
fromThe Walrus
3 weeks ago

Poilievre Isn't Pivoting. His Party Just Made That Very Clear | The Walrus

The Conservative Party has overwhelmingly reaffirmed Pierre Poilievre's leadership, signaling unified support and a strategy to win by appealing to voters dissatisfied with Liberal gains.
#government-shutdown
fromThe Walrus
4 weeks ago

Danielle Smith Might Be Guilty of Treason | The Walrus

I 've been looking back at Brexit through the rear-view mirror of Alberta's runaway referendum train. And I've been studying David Cameron, the British prime minister who called for the Brexit referendum in 2013. Ran a re-election campaign on the promise of one. Was handed a majority government in 2015 in part on the basis of that promise. Ran a campaign to remain in the European Union in 2016. Lost. And then resigned the next day.
UK politics
US politics
fromEmptywheel
1 month ago

The State of Trump's Anti-Mueller Strategy

Trump and allies are mounting multi-front efforts to discredit the Mueller investigation through hearings, public attacks, leaked anti-Comey letters, and legal strategy.
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

Five Lessons from MAGA

The Drug Abuse Resistance Education program ( DARE) and Mothers Against Drunk Driving ( MADD) both got their starts in the nineteen-eighties. MADD emerged as one of the greatest examples of grassroots political activism in modern America, but DARE has been judged mostly a failure. Why did one flourish while the other proved to be merely a passing fad? Duhigg argues that the answer is in the difference between "mobilizing" and "organizing."
US politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Braverman's predictable defection is Farage's biggest political gamble yet

As such, within minutes of Braverman telling the cheering crowd that she had come home, her former party agreed, with a Tory spokesperson saying it was always a matter of when, not if, Suella would defect. Reform is now up to eight MPs, four of whom were elected as Conservatives. And crucially, for a party that may create the next government from, in effect, a standing start, three of these have top-level experience:
UK politics
US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 month ago

Makes No Political Sense!' Joe Scarborough Warns Republicans Will Lose' Against Jack Smith Every Time'

Calling Jack Smith to testify gave him a strong platform to defend prosecutions and created a political liability for Republicans and Donald Trump.
US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 month ago

CNN's Jonah Goldberg Says Trump Has House Republicans Cutting Themselves'

Lack of message discipline derails selling achievements, creates distractions, and causes House Republicans to turn on each other.
fromWIRED
1 month ago

Everything Is Content for the 'Clicktatorship'

In President Donald Trump's second term, everything is content. Videos of immigration raids are shared widely on X by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), conspiracy theories dictate policy, and prominent right-wing podcasters and influencers have occupied high-level government roles. The second Trump administration is, to put it bluntly, very online.
US politics
UK politics
fromwww.bbc.com
1 month ago

Tories will channel anger at Labour, vows Badenoch

Conservatives aim to channel public anger at Labour and present themselves as the only party willing and competent to take tough decisions.
US politics
fromAdvocate.com
1 month ago

Donald Trump uses the anniversary of the Capitol insurrection to attack transgender people

A political leader repeatedly invoked "men in women's sports" to attack transgender people and use trans-inclusive sports as a political weapon while pardoning January 6 insurrectionists.
Environment
fromThe Nation
1 month ago

What Justice on a Burning Planet?

Every effort to combat and transform fossil capitalism matters because every fraction of warming matters; global justice and solidarity remain relational and contingent.
Right-wing politics
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

Chapter 13: How Trump radicalizes debate to sway opinion

Trump uses Overton Window tactics to radicalize public debate with shocking proposals to shift the bounds of acceptable policy, then implements moderated measures.
US politics
fromemptywheel
1 month ago

Where We Go from Here - emptywheel

Counter polarization by using grievance and conspiracism against authoritarian tactics while pursuing mass protest, judicial engagement, legislative defections, and electoral gains.
US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
2 months ago

Trump's Chaos Machine: Every Scandal, Conflict, and Controversy of 2025

A deliberate strategy of nonstop controversies and rapid churn turned media attention into governance, eroded accountability, and replaced consequences with spectacle.
US politics
fromAxios
2 months ago

The cash bazooka: Why Trump wants to send you money

Direct cash payments boost activity and provide relief but can fuel inflation and do not reliably produce lasting political benefits.
US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
2 months ago

Politically Insane': Karl Rove Warns That Trump Is Courting Nasty' Midterm Disaster

President Donald Trump's comments, low approval, and political missteps risk causing a damaging 2026 midterm defeat for his party.
Miscellaneous
fromIndependent
2 months ago

Senan Molony: Micheal Martin confronts the Jim Gavin affair on radio - and comes out fighting hard

Micheál Martin minimized political damage by expressing contrition and promising improvement, using a smoothing strategy to survive the short term and focus on 2026.
fromwww.mediaite.com
2 months ago

CNN's Harry Enten Gushes Over Trump's Marijuana Politics

According to Gallup polling, Americans who support legalizing marijuana has jumped from 12% in 1969 to 64% in 2025. People who admit to having used marijuana has also moved from just 4% in 1969 to 47% in 2024. You rarely get two in three Americans to agree on anything, but they do in fact agree that marijuana should be legal, Enten said.
US politics
US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
2 months ago

Republicans Helped Push Jasmine Crockett Into Texas Senate Race

The NRSC actively promoted polling and narratives positioning Rep. Jasmine Crockett as an easier 2026 Texas Senate opponent for Republicans to defeat.
US politics
fromJezebel
2 months ago

Makary, Makary Stuck in Quite the Quagmire-y

FDA Commissioner Marty Makary reportedly delayed the mifepristone safety review until after the 2026 midterms amid GOP concerns about electoral backlash over abortion.
US politics
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

Trump Is Repeating One of Biden's Big Mistakes

Trump regained the White House by exploiting worries about rising living costs; now he and his party deny the economic hardships facing working families.
UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

UK-EU youth mobility scheme could let tens of thousands live and work abroad

A UK–EU youth mobility scheme would let tens of thousands of young British and European citizens live and work in each other's countries.
US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
2 months ago

Stephen A. Smith Marvels at Trump's Absolutely, Positively Brilliant Politics' Over Pardon: School Is in Session!'

Trump's pardon of Rep. Henry Cuellar is a shrewd political maneuver that pressures Democrats toward the center and could yield a pro-Trump ally.
UK politics
fromwww.bbc.com
2 months ago

Labour weighed backing assisted dying bill pre-election

A 2023 Labour-commissioned policy note predicted assisted-dying legalisation would be popular and urged active parliamentary handling, favouring a private member's bill.
UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months ago

A budget to save Britain's finances? More like Operation Save Our Skins | Aditya Chakrabortty

Chancellor Rachel Reeves used a £26bn budget with higher taxes to buy political time while placating investors and restless backbenchers.
#democratic-party
fromwww.mediaite.com
3 months ago

Annoyed Rebecca Quick Rolls Eyes at Jeffries In Tense Battle

Quick noted that Reps. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) and Don Bacon (R-NE) pitched a two-year extension to avoid an end-of-the-year deadline that would see millions of people hit with rising health insurance costs. Quick argued Democrats would need to agree to something like a one-year or two-year extension instead of pushing for more. If you want to get done, you are going to need at least some Republicans to come over, why not start with a one-year extension or potentially even a two-year extension?
US politics
UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months ago

What does the left want? A wealth tax. What will that accomplish? Very little | Aditya Chakrabortty

A wealth tax is politically appealing but practically muddled, economically flawed, and unlikely to meaningfully challenge entrenched wealth and vested interests.
UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months ago

Will Nigel Farage embrace Europe, following Giorgia Meloni's lead? | Letter

Nigel Farage currently occupies a political position comparable to where Giorgia Meloni was 15 years earlier, requiring moderation and strategic alliances to gain power.
fromFortune
3 months ago

Meet Zara Rahim, the 35-year-old with a stacked resume who masterminded Zohran Mamdani's winning mayoral campaign | Fortune

When Zohran Mamdani stunned New York City's political establishment by defeating former Governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary and winning the mayoral election last week, much of the attention focused on his viral social media presence and charismatic appeal to young voters. But behind the 34-year-old assemblyman's historic victory was a strategic mind who helped reshape how the campaign connected with voters: Zara Rahim, a communications expert who has spent more than a decade at the intersection of politics, culture and digital strategy.
New York City
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months ago

Giving up would be a betrayal': Miliband says 1.5C target still alive before Cop30

Speaking on the eve of the UN's climate summit, Ed Miliband said it was the cause progressives could rally around, because most people recognise populist parties have got it wrong. We're not going to give up and the progress that we've already made should give us heart, he said. Giving up would be a total betrayal. Defeatism never took a single of a fraction of a degree of global warming. It never created a single job.
Environment
New York City
fromThe Nation
3 months ago

Mayor to Mayor: Some Advice for Zohran

Prioritize a balanced, experienced team, keep the agenda simple, move with speed, and remain authentic to lead a large, dynamic city successfully.
US politics
fromThe Atlantic
3 months ago

Is Marjorie Taylor Greene Playing Three-Dimensional Chess?

Marjorie Taylor Greene is shifting toward independent, heterodox positions and positioning herself strategically beyond Trump's Republican leadership.
#california-redistricting
fromIntelligencer
3 months ago
California

How Gavin Newsom Struck the Year's Heaviest Blow Against Trump

California returned temporary congressional redistricting authority to politicians to counteract Texas' gerrymandering, succeeding despite legal, timing, and political obstacles.
fromThe Mercury News
4 months ago
US politics

Prop 50: California redistricting fight would merge counties worlds apart

Governor Gavin Newsom and California Democrats seek temporary legislative control of congressional redistricting via Proposition 50 to gain up to five seats by combining diverse counties.
US politics
fromAxios
3 months ago

Democrats warned of "hell to pay" if they cut "weak" shutdown deal after election wins

Decisive Democratic election wins strengthen leverage to resist making concessions that would weaken healthcare protections or undercut party momentum.
US politics
fromThe New Yorker
4 months ago

Why Trump Keeps Talking About a Third Term

Donald Trump promoted the possibility of a third term to energize supporters and maintain relevance despite being constitutionally ineligible after two terms.
UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months ago

Ministers can raise taxes if they come out fighting. But no one in this cowardly Labour government seems able | Aditya Chakrabortty

The government avoids conflict, prioritizes pleasing voters and customers over taking sides, producing a constitutional incapacity to challenge vested interests.
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

The politics of despair have engulfed Britain. But Zack Polanski is offering a way out | Owen Jones

Since Zack Polanski secured the Green party leadership with an emphatic 85% vote share on an unashamedly leftwing platform, the political consensus has faced its biggest challenge since the defeat of Jeremy Corbyn's Labour. When Polanksi launched his bid in May, the Greens counted 60,000 members. They've now hurtled past 130,000, eclipsing the number of Conservative members. One poll already puts them on 15%, more than double last year's 6.2% and neck-and-neck with Labour.
Left-wing politics
Television
fromVulture
4 months ago

The Diplomat Recap: You Think You Know Someone!

Strategy and relationship scenes culminate in Trowbridge publicly blaming President Rayburn for the HMS Courageous attack, shifting global blame onto President Penn and the U.S.
UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

Rachel Reeves, just tell voters why taxes must go up and then do it | Polly Toynbee

Tax rises are necessary and should be framed as the civic price of civilisation that funds security, public services, and counters damaging tax-phobia.
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

Democrats are captive to outdated etiquette. It's endangering democracy | Ryan W Powers

In early August, dozens of Democratic lawmakers fled Texas for Illinois, denying Republicans the quorum needed to pass new congressional maps projected to give the party as many as five additional seats. Their absence paralyzed the state legislature, turning a walkout into political resistance and drawing national attention. As the standoff dragged on, Gavin Newsom, California's governor, offered an unorthodox countermove: a proposal to suspend his state's independent redistricting commission and draw maps designed to hand Democrats a comparable advantage.
US politics
US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
4 months ago

Joe Scarborough Admits He Still Talks to Trump Here's Why

Joe Scarborough maintains strategic contact with Donald Trump despite harsh criticism, seeking insight into Trump's intentions and narratives to better inform his viewers.
US politics
fromSun Sentinel
4 months ago

Florida CFO's Broward figures sound shocking, but leave property tax picture murkier than before

State analysis says Broward County spending rose $617.6 million since 2019-2020, with $189.8 million exceeding inflation and population-adjusted targets.
fromFortune
4 months ago

Trump eyes firing thousands of federal workers over shutdown | Fortune

President Donald Trump is weighing slashing "thousands" of federal jobs ahead of a meeting with his budget director, Russell Vought, as the White House looks to ratchet up pressure on Democrats to end a government shutdown that has entered its second day. "It's likely going to be in the thousands," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Thursday, saying that the "entire team at the White House" was working to identify possible cuts.
US politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

Starmer brings the steel and draws up battle lines with Reform UK

A constant frustration of Starmer's MPs has been that he does not like, as his allies put it, the V word. He is a details-focused pragmatist who takes decisions based on their merits, rather than whether they fit into any particular political story. But what this speech lacked in policy detail, it made up for in narrative. At its heart was an era-defining choice between Labour and the populist right or, as he put it, decency or division, renewal or decline.
UK politics
UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

Keir Starmer to tell Labour conference growth is the antidote to division'

Economic growth must be inclusive to unite the nation, raise living standards, and serve as an antidote to division and external threats.
fromABC7 Chicago
5 months ago

New York City Mayor Eric Adams abandons his reelection campaign

Despite all we've achieved, I cannot continue my reelection campaign,
New York City
US politics
fromThe Mercury News
5 months ago

Latest line: A good week for Jimmy Kimmel, a bad week for Pamela Price

High-profile figures face controversy and consequences: late-night host returns amid suspension, recalled DA’s successor drops police charges, and former vice president faces backlash.
fromThe New Yorker
5 months ago

Can a Maine Oyster Farmer Defeat a Five-Term Republican Senator?

Across the bay from Bar Harbor lies the small town of Sullivan, Maine, population twelve hundred and nineteen. On August 16th, Graham Platner, the bearded, strawberry-blond co-owner of the Waukeag Neck Oyster Company, brought his Carolina Skiff over to the Sullivan Harbor launch. It was three days before a video titled "Platner for U.S. Senate" would drop, catapulting this local oyster farmer, harbormaster, and former marine onto the national stage.
US politics
UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 months ago

Starmer gambles on levelling up'-style initiative to tackle Reform threat

Keir Starmer will fund over 300 deprived UK areas with tens of millions to regenerate high streets and empower communities to fix decline.
US politics
fromAdvocate.com
5 months ago

No, supporting trans rights doesn't cost elections

A majority of voters support transgender protections and favor candidates defending trans rights, while anti-trans attacks prove politically ineffective.
Left-wing politics
fromAdvocate.com
5 months ago

The blueprint to beat extremism starts local

Anti-LGBTQ+ politicians are winning local, low-turnout races strategically; Democrats must invest in scalable organizing and targeted down-ballot campaigns to reclaim ground.
Right-wing politics
fromWIRED
5 months ago

Inside Trumpworld's Reality Distortion Field

Trump-aligned officials and allies are pushing to remove or penalize posts across multiple social platforms that circulate violent content and a gruesome video.
Right-wing politics
fromThe Atlantic
5 months ago

What Charlie Kirk Told Me About His Legacy

Charlie Kirk sought to reshape an entire generation's worldview and institutions, focusing on cultural and intellectual change more than electoral victories.
UK politics
fromIndependent
5 months ago

Mairia Cahill: Sinn Fein's dithering cost Frances Black her Aras hopes - now another wrong move could destroy its left-wing reputation

Sinn Féin's handling of the presidential race has damaged its reputation for strategic mastery.
fromA Philosopher's Blog
5 months ago

Abortion, Women & the Right

While purporting to be motivated by pro-life (or at least anti-death) principles, these laws and bills are fundamentally misogynistic. They have three fundamental functions. The first is to appease a key portion of the base. Second, couched in pro-life language, these laws provide excellent dog whistles for misogynists. The male misogynists generally understand that the message being sent to them is: "Your baby in her body. Her body in your kitchen. Making you a sandwich to put in your body."
Philosophy
fromThe Atlantic
5 months ago

Fear of Losing the Midterms Is Driving Trump's Decisions

Few things make President Donald Trump angrier than the memory of his two impeachments. Despite his return to the White House this year, he frequently complains privately and publicly about Democrats' efforts to remove him from office in his first term. Trump, to this day, insists that he did nothing wrong, calling both impeachments "witch hunts." And he is fearful that he might have to go through it all again.
US politics
fromwww.amny.com
5 months ago

NYC Mayor's Race: Independent attorney Jim Walden exits contest, urging other low-polling candidates to do the same | amNewYork

For months I have been steadfast in my view that, unless there is a one-on-one race in November, a Trojan Horse will take control of City Hall, Walden said. For those still trailing in the polls by month's end, I implore each to consider how history will judge them if they allow vanity or stubborn ambition to usher in Mr. Mamdani.
New York City
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