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America would be better off if Trump had won in 2020, argues columnist Ed Kilgore. Joe Biden’s 2020 win was a Pyrrhic victory for Democrats, and the four-year gap just made Trump’s second term more horrific.
President Trump has jumped into the mayoral race. But is he helping Andrew Cuomo or Zohran Mamdani? Both Sliwa and Adams denied having any intention of leaving the race.
Trump’s legacy is in the Supreme Court’s shaky hands. The Court is poised to restrain Trump’s second-term power grabs or entrench them for years to come. And its rulings are increasingly unpredictable.
New data dumps and reports continue to reveal prominent people with ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Here’s an updated list.
Democrats thought they’d found a unifying midterms message. But Trump has the power to shift attention to topics like Venezuela and deportation.
Climate-change denialism used to be a fringe right-wing tendency. Now it’s the law of the land, and we’ll all suffer from it.
Justice Samuel Alito’s retirement might upend the midterms. Republicans believe the Kavanaugh fight saved the GOP Senate in 2018. They’d love to see a repeat, but it could backfire this time.
Two recent bodies of research indicate that X really is pulling its users to the right, and elites may not be as immune to this kind of algorithmic radicalization as they think.
Democratic Senator Chris Murphy says what he has heard behind closed doors proves a “senile” President Trump has no plan for Iran.
Trump’s Iran war is as unpopular as he is. Americans usually back U.S. conflicts when they begin. But polls show public support for the Iran war is already low, and it’s likely to drop if energy prices spike or the conflict spreads.
The GOP plans to use James Talarico’s Christianity against him in the Texas Senate race. Republicans are already turning the Democrat’s progressive theology into an attack line.
After a missile destroyed much of a girls’ elementary school in the southern city of Minab, reportedly killing over 100 children, the Trump administrations stopped making half-hearted humanitarian justifications for attacking Iran.
The Georgia congresswoman is out of office. Sarah Jones writes about how Greene’s conspiracies have come to define the American right — and the Republican Party’s long tradition of paranoia.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth are locked in battle over AI’s use in war.
Why are the United States and Israel at war with Iran? No one, least of all the men waging the conflict on our reluctant and terrified behalf, seems to know, writes Jacob Bacharach.
The World Baseball Classic had strict rules prohibiting political speech. Before it lost to Venezuela, Team USA showed how those rules benefit the powerful.
After a protest went awry outside Prairieland Detention Center in North Texas, a group of activists was accused of having ties to antifa and supporting terrorism. Meagan Knuth, a legal expert, breaks down the case and its implications.
Donald Trump will probably never admit the war in Iran was his mistake, but if he wants to pin it on others, here’s who he might pick.
With ICE in airports and the Iran war a mess, the president gathered his Cabinet in Memphis to lavish praise him and expound on the myth that he has made America safer.
Democrats could win a majority of governorships in 2026. With 36 states holding gubernatorial elections in November, there’s a good chance a midterms Democratic wave could hit down-ballot too.
Voters who dislike both parties are turning against Trump. Trump has traditionally done well with “I hate everybody” voters. But polling suggests they may help Democrats win in 2026.
With markets wobbling and bad information everywhere, Citrini Research sent an analyst to the war zone to figure out what’s really happening.
California’s top two primary and a scattered Democratic field could guarantee a GOP governor is elected in November. Here are four ways Democrats can avoid disaster.
If Trump gives up on the midterms, all bets are off. Things seem wild now, but we may get into truly uncharted territory if Trump and the GOP stop worrying about trying to win in 2026.
100 days into his mayoralty, Zohran Mamdani’s approval rating is respectable. But, Ross Barkan writes, it’s more impressive when you consider the intense opposition he has faced since rising to prominence last year.
2026 races are giving Democrats new hope in the South. While the region is still dominated by Republicans, five big midterm races in Georgia, North Carolina, Texas, and Virginia look promising for the Democratic Party.
A more limited landscape for Democratic gains and an unshakable MAGA base both put limits on Republican midterm losses despite all the problems facing that party and an unpopular president.
Is Melania Trump a U.S. Citizen? Where is she from, originally? How did she meet Donald Trump? Despite her memoir and movies, parts of the First Lady’s backstory are still hazy. Here’s what we know about her immigration story.
Tonight’s WHCA dinner sure to be an extra uncomfortable evening, since there will be both magic and whatever Trump says to the enemy of the people. Here’s the latest.
MAHA’s current plan for making the country healthy again involves an AI revolution. But as Alexandra Sifferlin writes in her new book, ‘The Elusive Body,’ that may not solve Americans’ biggest problem: getting diagnosed.
In a small way, he is attempting to alter a dynamic that has held New York mayors captive for decades, writes columnist Ross Barkan.
There’s a big idea that could fix America’s gerrymandering madness. The Supreme Court’s ‘Callais’ decision put us in a redistricting doom loop. Embracing proportional representation may be the only way out, writes New York’s Ed Kilgore.
The main obstacle to Trump’s 2026 agenda is Trump himself. Rather than sticking to the GOP midterms script, the president keeps causing problems and forcing his congressional allies to fix them.
The former correspondent accuses Weiss of trying to inject bias into his ‘60 Minutes’ report on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minneapolis.
He thinks Republicans should stop fixating on voters’ concerns about prices and focus on the SAVE America Act and his phony voter-fraud panic.
Vice President J.D. Vance’s memoir of religious conversion is long on hubris and short on wisdom, Sarah Jones writes.
While Trump is overreaching on immigration, Democrats can’t just go back to Biden’s policies in 2028. The Democratic Party needs a credible plan to control the border and a clearer path to citizenship.
A government shutdown this fall is looking likely. Between Trump’s SAVE America Act obsession and fury over Democrats’ unwillingness to ‘fight,’ odds of a shutdown before the midterms are rising.
The SHSAT, a standardized test that governs admissions to specialized high schools, is a wildly unfair method of evaluating students and fuels segregation to boot, Errol Louis writes.
Democrats need to postpone the progressive-centrist civil war until after the midterms. There will be time enough for fighting one another in the 2028 cycle. Doing so now helps the GOP make this election a choice rather than a referendum.
Senators have urged the SEC to investigate Trump’s social-media company Truth Social for selling immediate access to the president’s posts to Wall Street for $100,000 per month.
The GOP’s big red scare is really stupid. Democrats aren’t communist, and the relatively small progressive surge in this year’s primaries isn’t a Bolshevik Revolution, writes Ed Kilgore.
What happens if Democrats blow the midterms? Democrats are widely expected to flip the House and maybe even the Senate. If not, there could be hell to pay.
When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez began documenting her fertility treatments on Instagram, the backlash from the right was swift. To certain culture warriors, voluntary motherhood is an affront to biology — and an inexcusable expression of choice.
Despite primary whiffs, poll haters are still wrong. Yes, there have been some misfires in 2026 primary polling. But ignoring data isn’t the solution.
Bill Clinton’s party needs a ‘different kind of Democrat’ again. The 42nd president’s legacy has diminished and many of his policies now seem misguided. But the way he revived the Democratic Party holds lessons for 2028.
The press secretary announced she was leaving office earlier this month, saying she “cannot be the best mom” while in her role. It’s part of a larger tradeoff women in Trump’s White House have always faced.
Marine One is still having a failure to communicate with air traffic controllers, and Trump’s ballroom is at least partly to blame.
Democrats have an almost superstitious fear of hoping for a win in Texas. But James Talarico could break the spell in his Senate race against Ken Paxton. Plenty of other states have flipped unexpectedly and Texas could too.
Trump can’t rally the Republicans he needs. The GOP’s midterms problem isn’t the MAGA base. It’s the Trump 2024 voters who don’t think he’s doing that great a job.
President Trump is trying to use economic weapons to overpower Canada and Iran, but both are far tougher opponents than he seems to realize. These are more wars he can’t win, writes Jonah Shepp.