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April 8, 2026
Trump's MAGA media wall collapses
The architects of MAGA's media empire are in open revolt against President Trump, disgusted by his threat to destroy Iran's "whole civilization."Why it matters: Trump's political strength has alway...
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April 7, 2026
MAGA's global model faces existential test in Hungary
Vice President Vance on Tuesday will plunge into Europe's most volatile election in years — a Hungarian campaign engulfed by spy scandals, sabotage and unprecedented peril for MAGA's favorite forei...
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April 4, 2026
"We're fighting wars": Trump bets his presidency on the Pentagon
Data: White House; Chart: Erin Davis/Axios VisualsPresident Trump's new budget lays bare the transformation of his presidency, pairing a historic surge in military spending with historic cuts to do...
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April 1, 2026
Trump's blurry vision of victory in Iran
One month in, President Trump's Iran war has fractured into three competing realities:A military campaign that has largely delivered.A strategic vision that hasn't.A political and economic disaster...
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March 31, 2026
Trump pursues era of unshackled warfare
President Trump's threat to bomb Iran's water supply would constitute his most dramatic breach of the laws and norms designed to protect civilians in wartime.Why it matters: The Iran war is the big...
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March 25, 2026
Mysterious trading patterns follow Trump into war
Data: Yahoo Finance; Chart: Erin Davis/Axios VisualsAn epidemic of suspicious trading has emerged around President Trump's most consequential decisions — each time, just minutes or hours before he ...
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March 25, 2026
Exclusive: Newsom calls Musk "one of the great disappointments" of this era
California Gov. Gavin Newsom praised Elon Musk as this generation's Thomas Edison — then accused the Tesla CEO of surrendering the electric vehicle market to China."It breaks my heart," Newsom said...
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March 15, 2026
Cheap drones transform global battlefield
Cheap, mass-produced drones have permanently changed the face of warfare.Without them, Russia's overwhelming manpower and firepower advantage would grind Ukraine into dust.Without them, the Houthis...
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March 14, 2026
How America gamified its war with Iran
The U.S. government is treating strikes on Iran like a video game, inviting the country to watch as memes and montages subsume the human cost of war.Why it matters: The Trump administration didn't ...
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March 10, 2026
A world at war: The Iran conflict goes global
Ten days into President Trump's Iran campaign, the war has gone global.At least 20 countries are now militarily involved — shooting, shielding or quietly supplying — while a widening energy shock p...
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March 7, 2026
Trump's risky business
President Trump is mired in risk:Risk his Iran war of choice goes bad.Risk the February job losses are a trend, not a blip.Risk the stock market keeps dropping.Risk his tariffs, and now soaring oil...
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March 2, 2026
Trump campaign peace promises loom large over wartime presidency
No president in the modern era has ordered more military strikes against as many different countries as Donald Trump.He's attacked seven nations, three of which — Iran, Nigeria and Venezuela — had ...
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February 26, 2026
How Claude conquered Washington, Wall Street and Silicon Valley
Supremacy can be fleeting in the highly competitive AI race. But two months into 2026, Anthropic's Claude is upending U.S. national security, roiling financial markets and redefining how startups a...
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February 25, 2026
Trump's night of heroes: Takeaways from the 2026 State of the Union
President Trump staged a rose-colored spectacle at Tuesday night's State of the Union — the longest-ever address to Congress, from a president facing his lowest-ever approval ratings.Why it matters...
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February 23, 2026
AI's "centaur phase" consumes Silicon Valley
A manic new phase of the AI boom is sweeping through Silicon Valley, powered by autonomous "agents" capable of liquefying weeks of manual labor into minutes.Why it matters: For now, the frenzy is l...
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February 19, 2026
Europe answers Trump's call on Ukraine
Data: Kiel Institute; Note: Converted from euros to USD using the exchange rate as of Feb. 13, 2026; Kavya Beheraj/AxiosFour years after Russia's invasion, Europe has quietly replaced the United St...
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February 12, 2026
A year into Trump's term, voters say Biden was better
President Trump has become so politically toxic that voters now say Joe Biden — whose unpopularity forced him into early retirement — did a better job as president, according to three new polls.Why...
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February 10, 2026
Europe's leadership crisis
Data: Morning Consult; Chart: Axios VisualsU.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is fighting for his political life, rejecting calls to resign yesterday as fallout from the Epstein files threatened to b...
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February 9, 2026
Crypto revolt exposes fragility of Trump's coalition
Trillions of dollars in value have been vaporized from global crypto markets since October, plunging an ascendant industry championed by President Trump into a new bout of turmoil.Why it matters: C...
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February 5, 2026
AI arms race approaches IPO reckoning
A trio of AI titans is barreling toward watershed IPOs this year, posing the ultimate test of whether their lofty ambitions, breakneck spending and founder feuds can survive life under public scrut...
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February 3, 2026
Why the Epstein scandal may never die
The internet is awash in speculation, suspicion and disgust over the millions of new pages of Jeffrey Epstein files released by the Justice Department on Friday.Few believe the story is anywhere ne...
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February 1, 2026
Prediction markets have a fake news problem
Prediction markets have emerged as an unlikely engine of viral misinformation, pumping out false, misleading and context-free claims to millions of people on social media.Why it matters: Once a nic...
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January 28, 2026
Minneapolis killings cut short America's post-election apathy
The killing of Alex Pretti has destabilized the cultural settlement that took hold after the 2024 election, dragging non-political actors and institutions back into the eye of a national reckoning....
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January 22, 2026
5 winners from Trump's Greenland climbdown
DAVOS, Switzerland — A four-day Greenland crisis that roiled global markets, endangered the transatlantic alliance and dominated Davos ended Wednesday the same way it began: with a post on Truth So...
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January 21, 2026
Exclusive: DeepMind CEO "surprised" OpenAI moved so fast on ads
DAVOS, Switzerland — As Silicon Valley races to monetize AI chatbots, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis told Axios he was "a little bit surprised" OpenAI moved so fast on introducing ads in ChatGP...
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January 20, 2026
The great Davos divorce: America's allies draw red line with Trump
DAVOS, Switzerland — America's closest allies declared an end to the U.S.-led global order on Tuesday, concluding that President Trump's relentless coercion had exposed its fatal flaws. Why it matt...
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January 20, 2026
EU chief warns there's no going back after Trump's Greenland threats
DAVOS, Switzerland — The European Union's chief executive called for "permanent" independence from the U.S. on Tuesday, framing President Trump's hostility toward allies as a rupture on the scale o...
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January 19, 2026
Exclusive: Meta's Dina Powell McCormick calls for AI rivals to center "humanity"
DAVOS, Switzerland — In her first interview as Meta's new president and vice chairman, Dina Powell McCormick argued that AI is a "group sport" that will require cooperation among tech rivals to kee...
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January 19, 2026
Davos warning from BlackRock's Fink: Capitalism must evolve
DAVOS, Switzerland -- BlackRock CEO Larry Fink will open the World Economic Forum with a blunt acknowledgment that Davos — and the economic system it represents — is facing a crisis of legitimacy.W...
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January 18, 2026
How Trump's ruthless first year erased the Biden presidency
President Trump has spent his first year in office treating Joe Biden's presidency as a historical aberration — not just undoing his policies, but casting his entire term as illegitimate.Why it mat...
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