Hi Vox readers! We wanted to introduce you to The Logoff, our new daily newsletter. Stay informed on the Trump administration, without letting political news take over your life. You can sign up here.

The Logoff is a newsletter written by senior politics, policy and ideas editor Patrick Reis. He has been covering Trump since 2015 at Vox, Rolling Stone, the Washington Post and elsewhere.

The Logoff is a newsletter that aims to solve a fundamental conundrum of this new era: How do you stay informed about politics without handing over a big chunk of your brain to Donald Trump?

As we learned the first time around, trying to follow every turn of the screw in real time will leave you exhausted and anxious. Everything the new president does comes packaged in a cloud of rhetorical misdirection: He’ll promise major moves that won’t happen; he’ll make major changes and deny he’s done anything at all.

But the Trump administration is undertaking a remaking of America, one with immediate and tangible consequences for all of us. Simply pretending it’s not happening is a recipe for delusion.

It’s with that in mind that I conceived the Logoff, a short afternoon newsletter that separates out the bluster and homes in on the substance — the things Trump is saying and doing that will actually affect your life. I’ll tell you what from the headlines actually matters, what might matter in the future, and what you can safely ignore. And on days when there’s no substantive news at all, I’ll tell you that too. And with that, I’ll remind you to log off.

A little about me

I have some experience here. I began editing Trump coverage in the summer of 2015, including a particularly grueling stretch in 2016 when I was tasked with factchecking every word out of the man’s mouth. (I was younger then — and I certainly looked younger then.)

What I’ve learned in that time is the value of patience — specifically, that the rush to be first to report what Trump does or says robs one of perspective.

The other lesson I’ve learned from my decade of Trump editing is that it’s all too easy to let him dominate your every mental moment — to allow your thoughts to be organized around him, to filter every news item through a pro- or anti-Trump lens. It’s been too many years of Trump, and there are too many more to go, to keep living this way.

And that’s why we’re calling this newsletter “The Logoff.” In addition to helping you manage the torrent of Trump news, we will close every edition with something — a video, a podcast, a story — that will help you refocus your thoughts away from Trump, and into a more productive headspace, as you log off for the day.

Finally, this newsletter is for you, so let me know if you’re getting what you need from it. I’m at patrick.reis@vox.com, and I’d love to hear from you.

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