Jim Newell

Jim Newell is Slate’s senior politics writer.

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Trump Relocated His Drama to the Home of Hollywood This Week—and Got Results
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June 14, 2025 5:45 AM
Stephen Miller Is About to Secure the Policy Achievement of His Lifetime. Democrats Are Strangely Silent.
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June 11, 2025 5:40 AM
Trump and Musk Squared Up This Week. We Have Some Thoughts on Their Performance.
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June 07, 2025 5:45 AM
Elon Musk Really Does Not Understand What’s Going on Here
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June 04, 2025 4:43 PM
This Biden Anecdote Casts the Democrats’ 2024 Election Loss in a New Light
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June 03, 2025 11:37 AM
Elon Musk Learns a Lesson About Washington
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May 31, 2025 5:45 AM
Mike Johnson Pulled It Off. The Midterms Will Certainly Be Interesting.
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May 24, 2025 5:45 AM
The Biggest Unanswered Questions About Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill”
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May 20, 2025 5:45 AM
Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Is in Turmoil, but at Least He’s Getting a New Ride
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May 17, 2025 5:45 AM
Republicans Have Landed on a Grisly Compromise for Cutting Medicaid
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May 13, 2025 3:30 PM
A Republican Senator Puts on His Big-Boy Pants
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May 10, 2025 5:45 AM
The Time for Republicans’ Most Contentious Policy Has Arrived. They Better Brace Themselves.
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May 03, 2025 5:45 AM
The DOJ Says Trump Has Saved 258 Million Lives. I Asked Them What That’s Based On.
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May 01, 2025 10:29 AM
It’s Becoming Clearer How Exactly Republicans Are Going to Make Cuts to Medicaid
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April 30, 2025 11:16 AM
An Unlikely Star Democrat Emerged This Week
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April 19, 2025 5:45 AM
Some Democrats Are Worried This Is a Political Trap. They’re Wrong.
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April 16, 2025 5:09 PM
The Republicans Are Considering Something Truly Shocking: Raising Taxes on the Rich
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April 16, 2025 5:40 AM
The One Thing That Brought Trump Close to Reality This Week
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April 12, 2025 5:45 AM
Congress Is Starting to Think It Could Do Something About Trump After All
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April 05, 2025 5:45 AM
Why House GOP Leadership Pulled Out All the Stops to Kill This Vote–and It Backfired
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April 02, 2025 5:22 PM