Emily Schultheis

JB Pritzker's leaner profile is turning heads everywhere from Springfield to image-obsessed LA, @ShiaKapos & @emilyrs write ... ‘Looks like he's getting ready for a fight’: Why JB Pritzker is slimming down politi.co/3VuDd1i via @politico

JB Pritzker is losing weight. Even Donald Trump is taking notice. politi.co/3VuDd1i @ShiaKapos @emilyrs

Texas’ redistricting push is well-covered terrain at this point. But what’s the state of play in California? The stellar @emilyrs slots in for a guest author swing on Playbook to break down California’s redistricting reality: politico.com/newsletters/pl…

MAGA-branded candidates confront their limits abroad, even as far-right surges ow.ly/L7Ah106aBgV

An Orange County library clash distills our bitter political moment: @emilyrs went deep on Huntington Beach's book battle politico.com/news/2025/05/1…

The US president is attacking his closest allies. His calculation: Germany and other Western countries are weak and must comply. But the US is more vulnerable than Trump believes. welt.de/politik/auslan… @emilyrs @phil_ipp_fritz @cleacaulcutt @EliStokols @politico @POLITICOEurope

Germany's parliament voted today to loosen its debt brake and allow for more borrowing, long a controversial topic in German politics. In 2023, I wrote about the so-called black zero — and efforts to change it — for @thedialmag and @ForeignPolicy: thedial.world/articles/news/…

If you didn’t get a chance to read it earlier this week, check out our election postmortem:

The far-right AfD is set to become Germany's largest opposition party, with nearly a quarter of the seats in the German Bundestag. @NetteNostlinger and I looked at what it means in practice, and how it will help give them their biggest stage ever: politico.eu/article/german…

.@joshposaner and I looked at what Germany's new governing coalition could mean for Ukraine: politico.eu/article/german…

CDU leader Friedrich Merz long believed his party needed to take a harder line on migration. But the attack in Aschaffenburg convinced him it was now or never. His decision that followed completely transformed the final weeks of the election campaign. 🔗 ow.ly/9EPX50V5aft

German election postmortem from me and @NetteNostlinger: The inside story of how 31 days made Merz chancellor — and changed Germany forever politico.eu/article/german…

And that's a wrap — logging off from liveblogging duties for the night. Here's the full recap of election day and night in Germany. Danke und gute Nacht! politico.eu/article/german… #Bundestagswahl2025

Alice Weidel took the German far right to new heights. Here’s how she did it. politico.eu/article/german…

Alice Weidel took her far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party to new heights in Sunday's election, nearly doubling the party's support. My profile of Weidel and how she has radicalized alongside her party over the last decade: politico.eu/article/german…

Laut der 18-Uhr-Prognose von infratest dimap zur Bundestagswahl liegt die Union mit 29 Prozent vorne, gefolgt von der AfD (19,5 Prozent). Die SPD erreicht 16 Prozent, die Grünen kommen auf 13,5 Prozent. Die Linke erzielt 8,5 Prozent und würde damit in den Bundestag einziehen. Knapp wird es dagegen für FDP (4,9 Prozent) und BSW (4,7 Prozent). #Bundestagswahl2025

This is possibly the most consequential German election since WWII, as the world watches on to see how far the country veers to the right. Our reporters are on-the-ground in Berlin to bring you live updates as results come out tonight 👇 ow.ly/9Q0050V4t6s

It's Election Day in Germany! Follow along with @politico's live blog: politico.eu/article/german…

AI-generated content is helping the far-right Alternative for Germany make both sides of its vision — the idyllic, nostalgia-driven future it promises to bring and the dystopian one it’s warning about should others win the election — look startlingly real. politico.eu/article/german…

Germans are heading to the polls in the dead of winter for the first time in more than three decades. I wrote about the challenges of Winterwahlkampf — including politicians buying thermal underwear to keep warm on the campaign trail politico.eu/article/german…