The left is excited after New York City’s Democratic primaries. So is the right.
June 27, 20265:45 AM
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Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, a newsletter that could have chosen to do a fun “ranking the World Cup teams by their fans”–type deal but instead has chosen, once again, to torture you with information about American politics.
This week, Congress slopped it up once more before heading into a long recess. We examine the quietest of the big Senate races, check in on the poisonous green slime dump on the National Mall, pull out our wallets to pay for the Iran war, and question which powerful and connected figure who was 79 years old in April—Donald Trump’s age at the time, weirdly—could have received the latest miracle weight-loss drug.












