Why I Won't Vote to Add Sweden and Finland to NATO … The Senate will soon vote on adding Sweden and Finland to NATO.  According to the terms of NATO's founding treaty, that means the United States would be obliged to defend both countries in the event of a military attack.  I intend to vote no.

Why the Democrats Are Funding My Far-Right Opponent  —  They said Trump was a threat to democracy.  Now they are they propping up my MAGA challenger.  —  Tomorrow I'm facing off against John Gibbs in the Republican primary for Michigan's Third Congressional District.  The race is close.

Trump's Lawyers Are Preparing Legal Defenses Against Criminal Charges  —  According to internal communications reviewed by Rolling Stone, Trump's team is “quietly” planning for criminal charges as they wait for the Justice Department to make its move  —  Donald Trump's lawyers …

Trump-backed conspiracy theorist makes charge for chief election position in Arizona  —  Mark Finchem — a poster child for election deniers following the 2020 election — is inching closer to becoming the chief election official in one of the most tightly divided battleground states in the country.

Nicholas Kristof Returns to The Times  —  The journalist who first started here in 1984 and began writing columns for us in 2001 returns to Times Opinion.  Read more in this note from Opinion Editor Kathleen Kingsbury.  —  In his “farewell” column before running for governor of Oregon …

A former Kremlin adviser is hospitalized in Europe.  —  Anatoly Chubais, who resigned as a top Kremlin adviser shortly after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, was hospitalized on Sunday in a western European country in critical condition with the symptoms of a rare neurological disorder.

Lessons From Joe Manchin's March to Victory  —  About 16 months passed between President Joe Biden's March 31, 2021, proposal for an “American Jobs Plan” and July 27, 2022, when Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Joe Manchin struck a deal for a stripped-down climate, health care, and tax reform bill.

Trans cheerleader, 25, is given assault citation after ‘choking out’ teammate, 17, who called her a ‘man with a penis’ at cheer camp as video taken afterwards shows attacker saying ‘I barely touched her’  — Averie Chanel Medlock, 25, was booted from the Ranger College cheerleading camp …

Why It's So Hard to Find an Affordable Apartment in New York  —  There simply aren't enough places to live, a crisis decades in the making and one that poses a threat to the city's continuing recovery.  —  A half a century ago, city planners warned that New York had the potential to swell into a “monster city” of 55 million people.

Fit to Print?  UNC's Settlement with Nikole Hannah-Jones is Bad News  —  A reporter who hasn't dreamt of one day writing for the New York Times is a rare bird.  “I'll start with my local newspaper,” they tell themselves.  “Then I'll move on to a statewide paper, before making a name for myself at something with a national readership.

The Kamala Conundrum  —  Political news rarely gets much grimmer than it did for Joe Biden on July 26, when he was greeted by a surprise poll showing that, were he to run again in a contested primary in New Hampshire, he might command less than one-fifth of the vote.

Does Murdoch make the political weather or follow it?  Yes.  —  “IT'S THE SUN WOT WON IT.”  Thirty years ago, The Sun, a Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid in the UK, plastered those words on its front page—a humblebrag it was not—after John Major, then Britain's Conservative prime minister …

Kushner: Trump wanted to endorse Netanyahu's rival ahead of March 2020 election  —  Ahead of the Israeli election in March 2020, then-President Trump wanted to publicly endorse former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's main political rival Benny Gantz, Jared Kushner …

Trump Sides with Russia Over Brittney Griner  —  The former president blasted the U.S. government's attempt to free the WNBA star imprisoned in Russia for cannabis possession  —  Former President Donald Trump sounds like he wants WNBA player Brittney Griner to stay in a Russian prison.

Right-wing sheriffs are doing some really shady political organizing against the election system  —  The New York Times recently published a must-read investigation into right-wing activist efforts to organize county sheriffs for the purpose of challenging the electoral system based on 2020 election rigging disinformation.

Michigan secretary of state: Attempts to block election certification will be ‘futile’  —  Lansing — Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson says her office will not tolerate any effort to obstruct the certification of Tuesday's primary election based on “partisan games” or “baseless lies.”

Biden poised to deliver on decades-long Democratic promise  —  Democrats have been campaigning for 30 years on promises they'd let Medicare directly negotiate the cost of prescription drugs — and after all that time, they might finally be about to achieve it.

Arizona 2022: Dead Heat in Republican Gubernatorial Nomination; Masters With 18-Point Lead in for US Senate Nomination  —  Home Polls Arizona 2022: Dead Heat in Republican Gubernatorial Nomination; Masters With 18-Point Lead in for US Senate Nomination  —  The final Emerson College Polling survey …

A Town's Housing Crisis Exposes a ‘House of Cards’  —  In the Idaho resort area of Sun Valley, there are so few housing options that many workers are resorting to garages, campers and tents.  —  HAILEY, Idaho — Near the private jets that shuttle billionaires to their opulent Sun Valley getaways …

How Some Parents Changed Their Politics in the Pandemic  —  They were once Democrats and Republicans.  But fears for their children in the pandemic transformed their thinking, turning them into single-issue voters for November's midterms.  —  ORINDA, Calif. — They waved signs that read “Defeat the mandates” and “No vaccines.”