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Why Trump is hosting a UFC fight for his birthday
Cameron Peters, Vox
This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump’s Ultimate Fighting Championshi…
May 29, 2026, 9:49 PM
Why Trump is investigating E. Jean Carroll
Cameron Peters, Vox
This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is investi…
May 28, 2026, 9:32 PM
Brett Kavanaugh just won a surprising victory for racial justice
Ian Millhiser, Vox
Justice Brett Kavanaugh is a Republican. He served in a Republican White House, typically votes with the Court’s other Republicans, and even sometimes sides with President Donald Trump in major cases that divide the Republican Party. He’s not the sort of pers…
May 28, 2026, 7:01 PM
The real lesson of the E. Jean Carroll investigation is Trump’s weakness
Zack Beauchamp, Vox
Had you time-traveled back to 2023, and started telling people that President Donald Trump’s Justice Department would soon be trying to imprison a woman who had accused him of rape, most would likely have dismissed it as a paranoid #resistance fantasy. Yet no…
May 28, 2026, 5:53 PM
MAGA’s civil war over immigration is over. Silicon Valley lost.
Eric Levitz, Vox
The Trump administration announced last Friday that US visa holders who want a green card must first return to their home countries and apply from there, “except in extraordinary circumstances.” On its face, this rule — which was officially promulgated in a m…
May 28, 2026, 4:09 PM
The people who actually want AI to replace humanity
Sigal Samuel, Vox
“I want AI to be a tool that allows human flourishing!” exclaimed Brad Carson, a former member of Congress. “There is an option out there where AI is just a tool for us.” This is a normal thing to say in most circles. But Carson was speaking at an invite-only…
May 28, 2026, 9:08 AM
The Texas Senate candidates have two radically different visions of Christianity
Christian Paz, Vox
Now that Ken Paxton, the conservative attorney general of Texas, has defeated incumbent John Cornyn for the Republican Senate nomination, we may see something unusual in modern American elections: a theological throwdown. In a closely watched and competitive …
May 27, 2026, 11:11 PM
Two ways Trump’s Cuba standoff could end
Peter Balonon-Rosen, Sean Rameswaram, Vox
The United States indicted former Cuban President Raúl Castro in federal court last week, one of its most aggressive actions against the island since the end of the Cold War. The unsealed indictment charges Castro, the 94-year-old brother of deceased Cuban le…
May 27, 2026, 6:59 PM
Trump’s new plan to quash leaks
Cameron Peters, Vox
This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: The Trump administration wants federal employees to si…
May 26, 2026, 9:55 PM
A new Supreme Court opinion is terrible news for federal workers
Ian Millhiser, Vox
Remember DOGE, the Elon Musk-led “government efficiency” project that spread chaos during President Donald Trump’s first few months back in office, fired tens of thousands of federal employees, and then vanished almost as abruptly as it began? If you didn’t l…
May 26, 2026, 9:43 PM
Trump still thinks he’s winning in Iran
Joshua Keating, Vox
There’s an old line, sometimes attributed to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, that the best way to solve a difficult problem is to make it bigger. That might be the most generous interpretation of how the Trump administration is approaching its ongoing peace t…
May 26, 2026, 6:54 PM
Democrats don’t need an autopsy to know what they did wrong
Andrew Prokop, Vox
If you’re looking for insights into why Democrats lost in 2024, you won’t find many in the DNC’s disavowed “autopsy,” which was released after much pressure Thursday. The incomplete and error-ridden report, written by a friend of DNC chair Ken Martin, offers …
May 22, 2026, 2:29 AM
How Trump plans to build his arch
Cameron Peters, Vox
This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump’s hand-picked arts commission i…
May 21, 2026, 10:16 PM
The most important election is the one most Americans skip
Caitlin Dewey, Vox
Iran gridlock and middling China trips aside, President Donald Trump is having a pretty good month. Three May elections tested his grip on the Republican Party — and his candidates cleaned up. In Indiana, five Trump-backed challengers defeated Republican stat…
May 20, 2026, 10:14 AM
MAGA’s favorite psychedelic
Kelli Wessinger, Jonquilyn Hill, Vox
The Trump administration has a surprising new agenda item: It’s all-in on legalizing a psychedelic drug called ibogaine. Ibogaine is classified as a Schedule I drug, which means it’s illegal on the federal level. But some studies show it may be able to treat…
May 19, 2026, 7:07 PM
Trump gets his slush fund
Cameron Peters, Vox
This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: Last week, we wrote about President Donald Trump’s pla…
May 18, 2026, 10:08 PM
Trump’s brazen plan for a $1.7 billion slush fund
Cameron Peters, Vox
This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump may have found a new way to rep…
May 15, 2026, 9:56 PM
Why the anti-abortion movement is disappointed in Trump
Peter Balonon-Rosen, Sean Rameswaram, Vox
If you talk to folks in the anti-abortion movement, they’re pretty disappointed about the state of things in the US. Despite the headline victories they’ve achieved in recent years — like, say, the overturning of Roe v. Wade (1973) — they thought they’d be ac…
May 14, 2026, 5:29 PM
A year of Trump is backfiring on the religious right
Christian Paz, Vox
This weekend, an array of Christian religious leaders and government officials are scheduled to gather at the National Mall. They’ll convene to pray, yes, but this rally — organized as part of the White House-backed Freedom 250 celebrations tied to this comin…
May 14, 2026, 2:30 PM
The Supreme Court abortion pills case, explained
Peter Balonon-Rosen, Sean Rameswaram, Vox
Abortion pills have been on a bit of a journey in the United States over the past few weeks. It starts in Louisiana: The state sued the Food and Drug Administration late last year, seeking to eliminate access to the abortion pill mifepristone through teleheal…
May 13, 2026, 5:48 PM
Flavored vapes doomed Trump’s FDA head
Cameron Peters, Vox
This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary…
May 12, 2026, 10:01 PM
Can Trump lower gas prices?
Cameron Peters, Vox
This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump hopes to suspend the federal ga…
May 11, 2026, 10:04 PM
Is Trump’s Justice Department trying to discredit itself?
Ian Millhiser, Vox
On Wednesday, when FBI agents raided the office of one of the most powerful Democrats in Virginia, Fox News just happened to have one of its Washington-based foreign correspondents on the scene in the small city of Portsmouth. What an extraordinary coincidenc…
May 7, 2026, 8:16 PM
The FBI investigates a journalist
Cameron Peters, Vox
This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump’s FBI director was the subject …
May 6, 2026, 9:47 PM
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