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Michelle CottleThe Atlantic |
The president wants a loyal Republican Party — even if the country might not.
These G.O.P. crusaders might be the perfect people to fight sexual misconduct on Capitol Hill.
Why is the country’s most populous state stuck with such a bad choice for governor?
Big parts of the Rio Grande Valley turned against the party in recent years. One candidate is trying to win it back, one quinceañera at a time.
Why no one is surprised when another member of Congress is accused of sexual misconduct.
Democrats smother their best message — change — when they try to reserve public offices for relatives and cronies.
In the Indiana primaries, a crucial test of the MAGA loyalty machine.
Democrats can’t just sit back and expect the prevailing political winds to produce a blue wave.
It’s hard out there for a MAGA woman.
John Cornyn says his challenger doesn’t have the character to serve in the Senate. MAGA voters might not care.
A shock Democratic victory in a Texas special election shows what the party needs to do to win more there — and many other places, too.
The president wants to change the public landscape to honor himself. It’s not the worst thing he’s done, but it will require fixing.
As Democrats work to regain the public trust and to shed their image as the party of elites, they cannot be seen as treating elites in their party as...
Mary Peltola’s entry into the Alaska Senate race is a building block in an electoral strategy Democrats have been working on for months.
Thomas Massie says his primary against a Trump-supported challenger will be a referendum on whether you can “have a thought that diverges from the...
How much more chaotic could a second Trump term be? 2025 did not disappoint.
The speaker emerita is disappointed and a little surprised that the presidential glass ceiling remains intact, but confident that it will change.
Rare pushback from his party and troubling poll numbers reflect the newly precarious situation in which Trump finds himself.
Caregivers are at the brink of despair.
Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Nancy Mace resisted pressure from the president and made the vote to release the Epstein files possible.
The House Democratic leader’s fatal flaw may be that he is too unobjectionable for a Democratic Party spoiling for a fight with President Trump.
The constructive, if messy, path forward is for the party to embrace an all-of-the-above approach.
Mike Johnson, the speaker, won’t swear in the Democratic representative-elect from Arizona.
When the president starts rigging the system for his own benefit, no one is safe.
The Democratic Party is counting on a new type of leader to counteract Trump.
Creative obstructionism in the Senate, says Tina Smith of Minnesota, has become “a fine art” that has nearly paralyzed the institution.
The Republican redistricting effort in Texas has emerged as a clear opportunity for Democrats to prove they have the stomach for a fight.
The state leaders may be the party’s best shot at reconnecting with the American people.
Democrats need to figure out how to elevate new voices.
As he strives to stay relevant, Matt Gaetz, the former Florida congressman, is showing how, in Trump World, political resurrection remains a...
The New York progressive believes economic populism is the path forward for Democrats. Can she unite her party around that?