Approval of Bad Bunny Super Bowl show split along partisan lines, poll finds

Republicans largely oppose the decision to feature Bad Bunny, which Trump has decried as “crazy.” Americans are sharply divided on the NFL’s decision to feature Puerto Rican-born artist Bad Bunny at the 2026 Super Bowl halftime show, according to a new survey by Quinnipiac University. Overall, nearly half of respondents said they approve of the … Read more

What Trump’s Venezuela Strategy Is Really About

A top diplomat who served in Trump’s first term explains the president’s more aggressive approach. The Trump administration is barely bothering to pretend that its increasingly belligerent stance toward Venezuela is just about tackling narcotics. President Donald Trump wants Nicolas Maduro out of power — and the only question is how much pressure the United … Read more

Pollsters Have a New Kind of Competitor. They Should Be Worried.

In the wee hours of the morning of Oct. 10, in Oslo, Norway, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee started to notice something strange. On the online prediction market Polymarket, the Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado’s chances at winning the prize started to dramatically spike. The likelihood that Machado would win — as reflected by … Read more

Trump administration says it won’t tap emergency funds to pay food aid

The move means 42 million people will miss SNAP benefits in November unless Congress acts. The Trump administration won’t tap emergency funds to pay for federal food benefits, imperiling benefits starting Nov. 1 for nearly 42 million Americans who rely on the nation’s largest anti-hunger program, according to a memo obtained by POLITICO. USDA said … Read more

Trump rips New Jersey Democrat Mikie Sherrill as ‘fake and corrupt’ with ‘unusual name’

During a telerally for Republican nominee Jack Ciattarelli, the president also said he’d be campaigning for him. President Donald Trump urged New Jersey voters Friday night to reject Democrat Mikie Sherrill in next month’s gubernatorial election, calling her a “fake and corrupt radical left Democrat” who would send the state into a “death spiral.” Trump … Read more

‘Throw of the iron dice’: Inside Trump’s most perilous foreign trip yet

A week-long swing through Asia could cement Trump’s image as master dealmaker — or trigger the economic crisis he’s long vowed to prevent. President Donald Trump departs Friday on the riskiest foreign trip of his second term. Unlike his highly choreographed foreign trips to Europe and the Middle East, where leaders were eager to fête … Read more

The Theory Behind Trump’s Gunboat Diplomacy

Venezuela has become Trump’s test of hemispheric reengineering. After two world wars nearly destroyed the planet, at mid-century America decided to step up and apply its ingenuity to the Eastern Hemisphere’s many unstable dynamics. Europe needed settling down, then Asia, and then, later, the Middle East and Africa. An objective view of history says that, … Read more