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After a protest went awry outside Prairieland Detention Center in North Texas, a group of activists was accused of having ties to antifa and supporting terrorism. Meagan Knuth, a legal expert, breaks down the case and its implications. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

The World Baseball Classic had strict rules prohibiting political speech. Before it lost to Venezuela, Team USA showed how those rules benefit the powerful. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Why are the United States and Israel at war with Iran? No one, least of all the men waging the conflict on our reluctant and terrified behalf, seems to know, writes Jacob Bacharach. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Two recent polls in California show Kamala Harris running far behind Gavin Newsom if she attempts a presidential comeback. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

The Department of Homeland Security has been shut down for weeks, and now we’re starting to see long security lines at airports across the country. So which party will blink first on paying TSA agents? nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Trump’s job-approval ratings have hit a new low, and the Iran war certainly won’t help. The president’s poll numbers are already bad, so if the unpopular and economically damaging conflict drags on, the GOP is in serious trouble for the midterms. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

“I don’t know how many of you drive and how often,” Congresswoman Marie Gluesenkamp Perez said last July, “but I will tell you there is a plague in this country of headlight brightness.” Read more on the feasibility of headlight regulation: intelligencer.visitlink.me/aXAfKg

The Supreme Court is having none of it. The thing is, if he’d gone about it more smartly, he would have gotten his way, writes columnist Elie Honig. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

The ‘Dubai Is Over’ narrative has been circulating on social media and in the op-ed pages amid drone strikes on the UAE’s largest city. A longtime resident explains what that narrative gets wrong. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

The White House heard Corey Lewandowski kickback allegations but did nothing. Several companies have accused Lewandowski of seeking payment for DHS contracts — and top Trump officials have known for months. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

A vice president who is billed as an heir apparent but has been sidelined on policy? That sounds familiar, writes columnist Ross Barkan. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

In the aftermath of air strikes on gas fields around the Middle East, a global energy crisis touched off by the war in Iran has quickly gone from bad to potentially catastrophic. Here’s the latest reporting and analysis. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

During a press briefing on the Iran war, Hegseth said our ‘ungrateful allies in Europe’ should be thanking President Trump for his efforts overseas. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Why Iran is winning the slop war: The most prominent AI fantasies about the war on social media exaggerate the destruction and conjure visions of America’s failure. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Americans agree: Blinding headlights have become a scourge of the roads. So what can be done? Turns out this problem is deceptively difficult, Nate Rogers writes. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

A federal judge isn’t buying the White House’s ‘brazen’ ballroom defense. Judge Richard J. Leon blasted the Trump administration for offering “shifting” arguments, and describing the East Wing destruction as a little ‘alteration.’ nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton won the Democratic senate primary in Illinois on Tuesday, thanks in part to major support from Governor J.B. Pritzker. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Markwayne Mullin’s confirmation hearing to be the next DHS secretary quickly devolved when Senator Rand Paul raised an old grudge between the two men. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Almost nothing President Trump has said or done so far suggests he knows what he’s doing in his war with Iran, and he’s about to learn a hard lesson about how difficult they are to end. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Meghan Markle has low ratings … but at least her merch won’t sell?Honestly, there’s not a lot of good news in Variety’s report on the fraying of the Sussexes’ relationship with Netflix. nymag.com/intelligencer/…