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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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The midterms were a thumping rebuke of the U.S.-Israel relationship

The midterms were a thumping rebuke of the U.S.-Israel relationship

Alice Speri writes: On the eve of a midterm election that ended in an unequivocal rejection of his brand of politics, even Donald Trump seemed to recognize that the US-Israel relationship had become a political liability. Trump’s 11th-hour suggestion, on election morning, that he would cut military aid to Israel at the end of the year because, as he put it, “they don’t need it”, was condemned across the board – with pro-Palestinian advocates dismissing it as “desperate” and pro-Israel…

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Large majority of Jewish Americans think Israel and AIPAC drive antisemitism, poll finds

Large majority of Jewish Americans think Israel and AIPAC drive antisemitism, poll finds

Middle East Eye reports: A supermajority of Jewish Americans think Israel and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s (Aipac) actions are increasing antisemitism in the US, according to a new poll. The poll commissioned by J Street, a US-based pro-Israel think tank, shows a deep gap between how Jewish American voters view organisations like Aipac and Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, compared to how the state of Israel and its allies in the US portray antisemitism….

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Talarico urges Democrats to compete in Texas in 2028

Talarico urges Democrats to compete in Texas in 2028

Politico reports: James Talarico launched his Senate campaign in September 2025 just one day before the killing of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk — a coincidence that he now believes set the tone for his whole campaign. Talarico weighed cancelling the campaign event he had scheduled for that evening; local officials suggested that holding it could pose a security risk. But Talarico went ahead, speaking for just five minutes and using that time not to promote his own candidacy…

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The right’s election meltdown is only just getting started

The right’s election meltdown is only just getting started

Will Sommer writes: The polls had been predicting doom for his party for weeks, if not months. But as the first election results began rolling in on Tuesday afternoon, pro-Trump pundit Benny Johnson couldn’t help feeling good. Republicans had captured the governorship of Guam by 1,020 votes. Johnson, the right’s most prominent memester, told his fellow kids that control of the island—far closer to Papua New Guinea than to the continental United States—was a massively good omen for Republicans’ midterm…

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A rebuke of Silicon Valley by voters who refuse to let the future be stolen

A rebuke of Silicon Valley by voters who refuse to let the future be stolen

Michelle Goldberg writes: Will Lawrence, one of the founders of the Sunrise Movement, a progressive environmentalist group, was supposed to be unelectable in the purple House district in Michigan held by a Republican, Tom Barrett. When he pulled ahead in his primary, a headline on the influential political site Punchbowl said, “Democrats’ Nightmare in Michigan.” Representative Hillary Scholten, a centrist Michigan Democrat, told Axios, “He can’t win.” During the general election, Republicans gloated when Lawrence’s old social media posts emerged,…

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Anti-oligarchy activists plan to dox Elon Musk and hundreds of billionaire-linked homes

Anti-oligarchy activists plan to dox Elon Musk and hundreds of billionaire-linked homes

Wired reports: An underground activist group says it plans to start openly doxing billionaires as part of a phased campaign against what it calls the American oligarchy—beginning this month with a release that maps the homes of Elon Musk, his brother Kimbal, and Tesla’s board, alongside investors and suppliers that keep the corporation afloat. Two of its members, interviewed by WIRED on the condition of anonymity, say they spent the past year constructing dossiers on billionaires—and one trillionaire—and the people…

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‘Box office poison’: Trump told voters more than 40 times, ‘Pretend I’m on the ballot.’ They did

‘Box office poison’: Trump told voters more than 40 times, ‘Pretend I’m on the ballot.’ They did

The Washington Post reports: President Donald Trump spent two months urging Americans to pretend he was on the ballot. On Tuesday, they did just that. Voters delivered a stunning rebuke to Trump’s party that rivaled anything Republicans had suffered in 50 years, defeats on ruby-red turf that Trump won handily just two years ago, where he has dominated politics for nearly a decade and against candidates he had in some cases handpicked. Not only did Democrats flip Senate and governor…

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The race to find anyone but Trump to blame for the Republicans’ catastrophic losses

The race to find anyone but Trump to blame for the Republicans’ catastrophic losses

Wired reports: President Donald Trump’s aides were reeling from the scale of Republican losses on Tuesday night, but they almost immediately began figuring out who to blame. The ultimate responsibility, officials acknowledged only in private, lay with Trump for taking the country into an unpopular war with Iran that drove up prices, which became the number one issue for voters. But in the absence of being able to blame Trump publicly, there has been growing pressure to find scapegoats in…

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Trump concedes Iran war angered voters — but said he would do it again

Trump concedes Iran war angered voters — but said he would do it again

The Washington Post reports: President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday blamed Republicans’ stunning midterm losses on his unpopular war with Iran, though Trump said he had no choice but to launch the conflict and would do it again. “It’s largely true because it drove the gasoline [prices] up a little bit,” the president said Wednesday afternoon on the site of his half-finished White House ballroom, his first public appearance since the election. “At the same time,…

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