Christie Dishes on What Turned Him Off Working for Trump

By Lachlan Cartwright, Andrew Kirell

The former guv almost became Trump’s third chief of staff. But a combo of aggressive Javanka behavior and Trump’s loose lips led to Christie turning down the gig, he writes.

By Sam Brodey

Democrats are looking at massive losses in the 2022 elections, which is why they think they need to go bold now.

By Jose Pagliery

A Florida state representative cosponsored cyberbullying legislation that outlawed posting people’s personal information online. He’s been breaking his very own law.

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By Wajahat Ali

The cult around a teen killer is tied to the Capitol riot, far-right panic over critical race theory, and much more.

By The Daily Beast

Economist Justin Wolfers predicts whether inflation rates will doom us all—and why crypto bros want them to. Plus, The Bulwark’s Sarah Longwell has a grim Trump 2024 prediction.

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For many pro-Trump Republicans in the House Republican Conference, handing Democrats a win on infrastructure amounts to treachery, far more than anything Paul Gosar did.

Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) is accused of a number of major campaign-finance violations. The campaign blames it on one particular staffer who it says “vanished.” Not quite.

Steve Lynch once threatened to send “20 strong men” to pro-mask school boards. Now he’s “haunting” the people counting votes in an election he lost badly.

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 WRONG SIDE

The former president said on tape that it was “common sense” that people would want to kill his veep.

 BACK INSIDE

The province of Upper Austria—which has the lowest vaccine take-up—has announced the move.

 USE OF FORCE

“Oh, he knocked him out! Oh my God!” a bystander can be heard exclaiming.

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