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May 19, 2026
Malcolm Ferguson
Top Treasury Lawyer Quits as Trump Creates $1.8 Billion Slush Fund
Brian Morrissey was picked by the president to be the Treasury Department’s general counsel. Even he had enough.
May 19, 2026
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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent
Transcript: Trump IRS Shakedown Takes Darker Turn: “Stinks … Illegal”
As Trump reaches a “settlement” with DOJ that hands $1.8 billion in taxpayer money to a fund he controls, a legal expert explains just how corrupt this truly is—and why it might backfire for the GOP.
May 19, 2026
Magazine
Jessica Bateman
The Anti-Abortion Movement’s Alarming Control Tactics
A series of lawsuits allege that women are being coerced into having abortions by friends, ex-partners, or others who are close to them. But the accused are rarely the real abusers in these stories.
May 19, 2026
Scott Bradfield
The Crimes Georges Simenon Declined to Investigate
New editions of his “hard” novels show an obsession with furtive desires and misdeeds—and an uncanny obliviousness to the horrors under his nose.
May 19, 2026
Monica Potts
The AI Backlash Is an Opportunity for Democrats
All around the country, residents are fighting data centers. When will Democratic politicians realize the potential here?
May 19, 2026
Virginia Heffernan
Trump’s America Features Bad Vibes and Bad Numbers. Horrendously Bad.
The president insisted that Biden’s economy was “failing” in 2024, when it was anything but. Then he came into office and showed everybody what failing really is.
May 19, 2026
Sam Russek
The Wanton Destruction of the Texas GOP Senate Primary
As John Cornyn and Ken Paxton suck up to Trump and take shots at one another, the post-Trump future of MAGA in the Lone Star State is being decided.
May 19, 2026
Podcast
The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent
Trump’s $10 Billion IRS Shakedown Takes Darker Turn, Unnerving Experts
As Trump reaches a “settlement” with DOJ that hands $1.8 billion in taxpayer money to a fund he controls, a legal expert explains just how corrupt this truly is—and why it might backfire for the GOP.
May 18, 2026
Edith Olmsted
“Betrayal”: Trump EPA Rolls Back Key Drinking Water Protections
The EPA has repealed limits on four types of “forever chemicals.”
May 18, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Demands Investigation Into Blue State That Didn’t Vote for Him
Donald Trump accused Maryland of election fraud.
May 18, 2026
Edith Olmsted
Jury Hands Elon Musk Embarrassing Loss Against OpenAI
Elon Musk accused Sam Altman of taking OpenAI too far from the company’s charitable principles.
May 18, 2026
Hafiz Rashid
Trump Suggests He Was on the Brink of Breaking Iran Ceasefire
The president wrote on social media that he was prepared to attack Iran but was persuaded not to by the United States’s Gulf allies.
May 18, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
How Team Trump Helps Hide How Fast He’s Aging
Donald Trump is in obvious physical decline—but you wouldn’t know it from how his team tells it.
May 18, 2026
Hafiz Rashid
ICE Agent Charged With Four Counts of Assault in Minneapolis
The Hennepin County District Court charged ICE’s Christian J. Castro after he fired his gun at a Venezuelan immigrant and then lied about it.
May 18, 2026
Malcolm Ferguson
Trump’s $1.8 Billion Slush Fund Comes With Huge Disclaimer
The administration has “no liability” for what recipients do with the money—which may be important given who they’re giving it to.
May 18, 2026
Edith Olmsted
Trump’s Latest Renovation Destroys a Historic Protest Space
Donald Trump is turning a main gathering spot into a parking lot.
May 18, 2026
Hafiz Rashid
Fox News Wants the Iran War Ceasefire to End
Brian Kilmeade made an unpersuasive case to restart military actions on Monday.
May 18, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Has Separated Even More Families Than We Realized
Tens of thousands of U.S.-born children are no longer with their families.
May 18, 2026
Malcolm Ferguson
MAGA Senator Calls on More Iran Bombing for Absurd Reason
Senator Rick Scott suggested that Iran would kill Americans with a nuclear weapon if Trump didn’t “bomb the living daylights out of them.”
May 18, 2026
Edith Olmsted
Trump’s War Sparks Tsunami of Insider Trading
One service member has already been indicted over it.
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