PLUS: Mississippi’s hottest political race, and a conversation with Ben Terris

PLUS: Lawmakers eye A.I., and a quick and dirty election round-up.

An interview with Max Chafkin, author of “The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power,” on how J.D. Vance and Blake Masters came to be part of Thiel’s political project

“I don’t think we should be coy. I don’t think we should be abstract,” said the vice chair of the Democratic Governors Association.