“This is not going to be easy by any stretch of the imagination,” James Talarico tells @POLITICO. “We’re going up against the political establishment in both parties.” tinyurl.com/mu4wx689

.Alexi Lalas calls Donald Trump "the soccer president." I talked to him about that, and whether MAGA will ever fully embrace the world's game.

Now on POLITICO: the Alexi Lalas/Adam Wren crossover event you've been waiting for On Trump, the World Cup and soccer in the age of MAGA 👇politico.com/news/2025/09/0…

.Alexi Lalas on the trade wars—and weather the world's game can still bring people together at such a fractious global moment.

In which I chat with ⁦⁦Adam Wren⁩ about the 2026 World Cup opportunity/responsibility, Trump as the Soccer President, politics of sport, American soccer culture, soft power, trade wars, America first, Alex P. Keaton, & more. ⁦POLITICO⁩ politico.com/news/2025/09/0…

New: Texas Senate candidate James Talarico just announced at his Round Rock rally that he raised $1 million in just 12 hours.

Bun-to-tendy ratio almost right.

See, real ones know you want the patty to be large enough to double as a cot in case you need a nap halfway through the eating.

I interviewed Charlie multiple times. I often pressed him on his statements and views. He was always willing to engage, and always cordial even after tough back-and-forth. Having witnessed what political violence looks like first hand in Butler, PA last summer, all I can do is

Talarico in San Antonio on Kirk’s death:

When I ran for Congress at 23 years old, Charlie Kirk was one of the first people to believe in me and endorse my grassroots campaign. That’s because Charlie Kirk believed in the potential and promise of young people across our country, and he inspired millions of them to get

A while ago, probably in 2017, I appeared on Tucker Carlson's Fox show to talk about God knows what. Afterwards a name I barely knew sent me a DM on twitter and told me I did a great job. It was Charlie Kirk, and that moment of kindness began a friendship that lasted until today.

“On the eve of the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks-day 24 years ago that inspired calls for national unity-it was readily apparent the country lacks a leader who can bridge the increasingly deep divide,” Adam Wren & Holly Otterbein write: politico.com/news/2025/09/1…

On a college campus in Utah, the bullet that traveled nearly 200 yards from an unknown shooter didn’t just pierce MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk. It punctured the idea Kirk himself advanced: that political debate — albeit laced with verbal combat — could force a polarized country

Abdul El-Sayed, a Democratic candidate for Michigan’s Senate seat who just weeks ago said, “When they go low, we don’t go high. We take them to the mud and choke them out,” shifted to, “we handle political disagreements with words and not violence in this country. That is the

Can America unwind its Gordian knot of political violence? In 1968, Robert F. Kennedy spoke peace to a crowd in Indianapolis after another political assassination, that of Martin Luther King Jr.: “We can do well in this country,” Kennedy said, adding that we must “tame the