Of course: Could an Austin suburb soon hold the record for the world's largest Target? www.mysanantonio.com/business/art...

Superb reporting from Jonathan O'Connell -- Behind the scenes of the D.C. mayor’s battle to keep Trump at bay www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Latest from Hannah Knowles -- Trump faces resistance in MAGA movement over immigration, Epstein www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

“Who could believe that the head of a think tank doesn’t think?” -- In Explaining His Gaffe, Heritage Foundation Leader Pleads Ignorance www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

My latest: Why Epstein is the one issue that persistently splits Trump from his base wapo.st/43OOQVN

Please join us for our Live Chat tomorrow: What else can Jefferson teach us about the American story? Ask your questions. wapo.st/4qXVxhV

Democrats call for ruthless tactics after vote to end shutdown stirs fury -- from Yasmeen Abutaleb, Dan Merica, Patrick Marley www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

From the Inquirer: www.inquirer.com/politics/new...

This was all about the filibuster.

Re-upping this, which I wrote a few years back after my brother’s death. Trump’s idea of bypassing insurers and letting people shop around for cheap coverage sounds good — until you get sick. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

NEW: How a backlash to Trump fueled Democratic gains with Latino voters. The president's deportation policies and high prices propelled a shift in this year's elections, compared to 2024. By @sabrod123 @teoarmus @KnowlesHannah: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The coat was such a sensation that Max Mara scrambled to put its 2012 design back on the market. “It’s a funny thing because none of it was planned or intentional. I only wore that orange coat because it was clean,” Pelosi told me. “Now, I can barely wear it because it’s a meme.”

The 1st appearance of @SpeakerPelosi -- "a slim woman 41 years old" --in the NYT. Here's the kicker: "She says she has no ambitions to run for elected office. 'I'm more into fund-raising, ''but I like the vitality, the disagreements, the advocacy of politics.''' www.nytimes.com/1984/07/17/u...

Terrific reporting from @iarnsdorf.bsky.social and @jacobbogage.bsky.social -- Heritage staff in open revolt over leader’s defense of Tucker Carlson www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

In 2024, Trump carried Passaic County with 52 percent of the vote. Last night, @MikieSherrill won it in a blowout:

On May 4, 2017, House Republicans voted to repeal the ACA and Abigail Spanberger texted her husband: "I'm gonna run and I'm gonna fucking win." Here's the unlikely story of how a former undercover CIA operative is about to become Va.’s first female governor wapo.st/43aRhBB

There’s never been a political journey quite like this. From CIA officer operating with five passports and five covert identities to Virginia’s first woman governor. Here’s how Abigail Spanberger did it: wapo.st/43aRhBB

As a CIA officer, Abigail Spanberger traveled covertly with 5 passports and 5 identies. Now she will be Virginia’s first woman governor, breaking an all-male line stretching back to governor Patrick Henry in 1776. Here’s the remarkable story of how she got here www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Re-upping my column from last year on @MikieSherrill and @SpanbergerForVA. A really fun interview. -- Can these Capitol Hill roommates lead Democrats out of the wilderness? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Who says we don't need civics education in this country?

My latest: Dick Cheney spent decades as the ultimate GOP insider. He died an outsider. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Voters divided on midterms despite broad Trump disapproval, the latest Post/ABC/Ipsos poll finds (Plus a return of the Dan Balz byline!) wapo.st/4oMSmrs

Six trick or treaters so far. Am I going to have to eat all this candy myself?

Such a great lede on this story about an immortal headline — 50 Years Ago, My Father Wrote the Headline That Refuses to Die www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/n...

“Trump’s Gilded Age Brothel school of interior design” George Will is not amused. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

It would have been bigger news if he had said he won't. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/u...

I spent a few days in New Jersey and found the governor's race ... very hard to read: After Trump gains, New Jersey governor’s race offers a test for Democrats wapo.st/4htuIOf

Exclusives like these are why you should be subscribing to the @washingtonpost.com Our week of breaking news on the destruction of the East Wing, as chronicled by Dan Diamond : dandiamond.substack.com/p/our-week-o...

From the great @philipkennicott.bsky.social -- Why the demolition of the East Wing is so shocking www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Such a fun (for the reader, not the writer) story from Emily Heil -- I tried ‘Entertaining’ like Martha Stewart. It was exhausting and exhilarating. wapo.st/3WklE4J

My favorite sign at the Montclair NJ No Kings today:

The headline writers are the unsung heroes of what's left of the dead-tree newspaper business. Especially to those of us who think a good pun is a form of high art.

My latest: Pritzker finds his place at the ramparts of the Trump resistance wapo.st/46VdVAk

This Texan LOVES the Brit's-eye view of our state fair -- and the friendly Texans she met. From @KatieTarrant_: Everything is bigger in Texas. A Brit takes a spin through the state fair. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Russia's abduction and transfer of Ukrainian children fits the definition of genocide. @karavoght.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/1...

My latest: For U.S. presidents, the Nobel Peace Prize has long been fraught with politics (and why Bill Clinton was considered "the Susan Lucci of the Nobel Peace Prize") wapo.st/48vy557

Tumulty’s work on quantum phase transitions in Bose Einstein Condensation leading to the creation of exciton polaritons is groundbreaking.

Sadly, I can no longer brag to friends that I know what Tom Sietsma looks like and they don't: www.washingtonpost.com/food/2025/10...

Once again, I have been snubbed for the Nobel Prize in Physics.

That time the Secretary of State shut down a Republican administration's plans to start using polygraphs on government employees: "The minute in this government I am told that I’m not trusted is the day that I leave." www.nytimes.com/1985/12/20/u...

“As much as the White House is trying to blame this on Democrats, who have refused to give Republicans the eight votes they need in the Senate to reopen the government, a survey by The Washington Post showed that a large plurality of Americans are holding Trump and the Republicans responsible.”

“President Donald Trump is reveling in a legally shaky plan to employ the shutdown to punish his enemies — or more accurately, their constituents.” @ktumulty.bsky.social

. Clinton feared the 95-96 shutdown “seemed likely to doom my presidency.” But said: "I didn’t want to be President if the price of doing so was meaner streets, weaker health care, fewer educational opportunities, dirtier air, and more poverty." How it ended: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

My latest: Government shutdowns have become normal. This one is not. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

One thing that didn't get enough attention in yesterday's flood of news: Hegseth to upend troops’ access to watchdog, whistleblower complaints @taracopp.bsky.social and Noah Robertson www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

“Pete Hegseth was about 10 years old in 1990,” @mikiesherrill.bsky.social tells @ktumulty.bsky.social. “I was entering the Naval Academy. So he has no idea what was going on. I had a first-hand look at it.”

‘Men and women of our military deserve the same chance to serve their country… without fear that they are stepping back in time when assaulting women and minorities was considered a sport’ Via @ktumulty.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Gift link: wapo.st/42gUEXk

My latest: Hegseth wants to return the military to 1990 — a dark time in its history. The early 1990s saw the U.S. Navy rocked by the Tailhook sexual assault scandal, exposing an underside of military culture. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...