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This tech-backed mayor jumped into California’s gov’s race with a bang. Now ‘he might as well drop out.’

By Dustin Gardiner

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Netflix’s Chief Opens Up About Trump, YouTube and Europe

Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos sits down for a wide-ranging interview as he prepares to make his case to EU officials.

By Carrie Budoff Brown

The Friday Read

The Unlikely Red State Trying to Buck Trump and Big Tech

Inside the battle to shape AI: Trump, Big Tech and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

By Calder McHugh and Samuel Benson

Q&A

Colombia’s President Says We Are Heading Toward ‘Extinction’

In an exclusive interview with POLITICO, the outgoing Colombian president argues the war on drugs has failed and fires back at Donald Trump.

By Rory O’Neill

Column | Rules of Law

Why DOJ Hasn’t Charged Anyone Else From the Epstein Files

The release of the Epstein files upended American politics — but it doesn’t mean people are going to jail.

By Ankush Khardori

Column | On Politics

Sarah Huckabee Sanders Talks Trump and the GOP — Over a Plate of Ribs

In the debut of a new series, Jonathan Martin sits down in Little Rock with Sanders for a wide-ranging conversation about Arkansas, ambition and her party’s future.

By Jonathan Martin

Column | On Politics

Kamala Harris Is Buying Time — But Democrats Are Looking Ahead

Her extended book tour keeps 2028 in play. But conversations with Democrats suggest the party may already be searching for its next standard-bearer.

By Jonathan Martin

PERSPECTIVE

How the Rapture Explains the Rupture Over Israel on the Right

The waning of a religious concept among younger evangelicals is reshaping the right’s once unquestionable support for Israel.

By Joshua Zeitz

Politics

‘You’re Accumulating Opposition and Enemies’

Texas Republican Dan Crenshaw had real social media savvy. But it wasn’t enough to survive in the Trump era.

By Catherine Kim

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They Came to Spy on America. They Stayed to Coach Little League.

In the wake of the Cold War, some Soviet bloc spies decided their fake American lives weren’t so bad.

By Zach Dorfman

The Friday Read

The Campaign to Take Down Alex Bores Is Just the Beginning

A leading AI industry-backed Super PAC is targeting a pro-regulation candidate — and building a strategy that other politicians will have to contend with.

By Nancy Scola

Column | Capital Letter

Trump Keeps Gambling With the Economy — And Getting Away With It

President Donald Trump has taken one risk after another that could have destabilized the American economy. Iran is the latest crisis to test U.S. economic resilience.

By Victoria Guida