Michelle Goldberg: How the Democrats did it

Michelle Goldberg: How the Democrats did it

  Ezra Klein: President Trump is primarily responsible for the Republican shellacking on Tuesday. But to get over the finish line in so many places — across the Midwest and deep into the South – Democrats had to run the right candidates, and those candidates ran very different campaigns. So how exactly did those Democrats do it? Michelle Goldberg, my colleague at New York Times Opinion, did amazing work this past year covering the biggest races — traveling to Texas,…

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Judge selects special master to investigate Trump administration’s conduct in golf course case

Judge selects special master to investigate Trump administration’s conduct in golf course case

The New York Times reports: A federal judge on Saturday said that she intended to appoint a former U.S. attorney in Washington to investigate the government’s conduct in the lawsuit over President Trump’s plans to remake the East Potomac Golf Links. Judge Ana C. Reyes of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia notified the parties in the lawsuit that she had landed on Jessie K. Liu to be a so-called special master, a role that would require…

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Why investors are dumping AI company stocks after Democrats’ election sweep

Why investors are dumping AI company stocks after Democrats’ election sweep

The Washington Post reports: The Democratic Party’s takeover of Washington and key state capitals — coupled with an abrupt financing chill — threatens the artificial intelligence boom that has been driving U.S. economic growth and stock values. Investors worry that Democrats, emboldened by their landslide win on Tuesday, will slow the nationwide buildout of AI data centers. The shift in political power in states such as Texas, Ohio and Michigan comes as Wall Street’s willingness to finance the industry’s trillion-dollar…

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Tech companies face mounting child safety lawsuits while pushing AI into schools

Tech companies face mounting child safety lawsuits while pushing AI into schools

CNBC reports: Tech companies have spent years telling parents they’re working to make their products safer for children. But ongoing jury trials, settlements and related litigation against the likes of Meta, Google and Snap suggest that they’re not doing enough. The latest examples landed this week. Snap confidentially settled a case claiming that its technology caused severe psychological distress to two teenage users. Meta, TikTok and YouTube previously settled with the plaintiffs in the same suit. And Google was sued…

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Israeli opposition leader chosen to try to form new government

Israeli opposition leader chosen to try to form new government

The New York Times reports: Israel’s president on Saturday selected Gadi Eisenkot, the leading rival of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to try to form a new government, handing him the daunting task of forging a parliamentary coalition after an indecisive national election last month. Isaac Herzog, the Israeli president, said he had held “in-depth talks” with both Mr. Netanyahu and Mr. Eisenkot before making his decision. He ultimately tapped Mr. Eisenkot, a center-right former Israeli military chief, after more members…

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Tesla’s Cybercab is so safe it’s internal test results are ‘confidential business information’

Tesla’s Cybercab is so safe it’s internal test results are ‘confidential business information’

electrek reports: Tesla has answered NHTSA’s Special Order demanding it prove, under oath, that the Cybercab meets federal safety standards. The response landed on the October 30 deadline, and Tesla asked the agency to keep all of it confidential. The only part of the filing the public can read is a 30-page guide for firefighters. Everything about how a car with no steering wheel, pedals, or mirrors was certified as compliant is blacked out. We reported in September that NHTSA…

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A strange quantum theorem has killed Einstein’s reality

A strange quantum theorem has killed Einstein’s reality

Charlie Wood writes: One of a human’s earliest developmental milestones is an understanding of object permanence. It generally takes less than a year for a baby to realize that when an adult hides their face behind their hands in a game of peek-a-boo, they don’t cease to exist. There’s more to the world around us than what we perceive. This suggests — or at least, it suggested to Albert Einstein — that the world is “real,” in the sense that…

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Trump replacing Wiles with Stephen Miller isn’t just about going to war with Democrats, insiders say

Trump replacing Wiles with Stephen Miller isn’t just about going to war with Democrats, insiders say

Mother Jones reports: President Donald Trump is ending a bruising week of electoral humiliation with a clear message: He has no intention of changing tack. In fact, the president appears ready to double down on his worst instincts. “I am pleased to announce that Mr. Stephen Miller, the current Deputy Chief of Staff of the Trump Administration, and one of my most trusted advisors, will become the Chief of Staff starting Monday, November 9, 2026,” Trump wrote on Truth Social….

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Leaks targeted Stephen Miller after Republican wipeout

Leaks targeted Stephen Miller after Republican wipeout

Before today’s announcement that Stephen Miller is Trump’s new chief of staff, The New Republic reported: After Republicans were soundly defeated in Tuesday’s midterm elections, the GOP’s knives are coming out for Stephen Miller. Leaks from within the Trump administration are targeting the White House adviser and deputy chief of staff for policy, with unnamed sources attacking him. According to The Wall Street Journal, first lady Melania Trump at one point complained to President Trump that people she knew were…

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Democrats must grasp their chance to launch a foreign policy revolution

Democrats must grasp their chance to launch a foreign policy revolution

Matthew Duss writes: Tuesday’s election made clear that endless wars, political corruption, and the high cost of living are three of the American public’s top concerns. They are deeply interrelated—and the new Congress must address all three. That will require a true foreign policy revolution that grapples not just with the outrages and failures of the Trump administration’s foreign policy but also with the ways in which past Democratic or Democrat-supported foreign policies have contributed to today’s crisis. There will…

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Young voters rose up demanding generational change

Young voters rose up demanding generational change

The New York Times reports: Alienated by an older generation of politicians who felt out of touch and irrelevant to their lives, young voters revolted on Tuesday, powering the rout of President Trump’s Republican Party. In swings of monumental proportion, young men aged 18 to 29 veered toward Democratic candidates by nearly 40 percentage points since 2024, according to preliminary results from Times Voter Trends. Young women, who were already inclined to support Democrats, swung by 27 points. In the…

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Trump official who wants data centers on public lands has tens of millions invested in AI industry

Trump official who wants data centers on public lands has tens of millions invested in AI industry

By Mark Olalde This story was originally published by ProPublica The Trump administration has likened the need to build out the nation’s artificial intelligence infrastructure to the Manhattan Project, the World War II effort that produced the world’s first atomic bomb. The White House’s point person on the effort, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, has spoken of the “AI arms race” with China as an existential issue for the nation. “AI is manufacturing intelligence, and, if we don’t manufacture more intelligence…

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Top RFK Jr. ally strongly criticizes Susie Wiles during Joe Rogan interview

Top RFK Jr. ally strongly criticizes Susie Wiles during Joe Rogan interview

The New York Times reports: Calley Means, who resigned as a top federal health official two weeks ago after clashing with the White House, on Friday accused President Trump’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles, of bowing to “unrelenting” pressure from industry lobbyists while prioritizing political fund-raising over Americans’ health. In a two-hour interview with the podcaster Joe Rogan, Mr. Means said that Ms. Wiles withheld support from his efforts to make children’s diets healthier, citing the need for sugar industry…

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You can’t make America healthy by letting polluters off the hook

You can’t make America healthy by letting polluters off the hook

Elizabeth Bechard and Celerah Hewes write: One might think, from President Donald Trump’s recent announcement of his administration’s plan to gut federal methane protections, that he was doing everyday Americans a huge favor. He claimed that this action was a win for consumers, but the real winners are polluters. They’ve been handed yet another free pass to keep emitting harmful air pollution without the protections that safeguard our health. The gutting of oil and gas protections should be shocking, but…

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