Politics
What really matters in the world of politics, campaigns, ideology, and more.


Trump is struggling to check off his enemies list.


The US shut down a major city’s airport, and nobody is quite sure why.


You’ve become increasingly replaceable.


How election officials are thinking about Trump’s threat to the midterms.


British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is hanging by a thread.


Progressive Catholics are ready to fight back.


America’s Trumpiest court just gave Trump a dangerous new weapon.


Why it’s so hard to know whether the president is okay.


The uncomfortable truth about “the left” and “the right.”


The nightmare scenario for American democracy is no longer unthinkable.


Millions of files, zero accountability?


The US Senate candidate from Texas on why she believes voters — and nonvoters — are hungry for politicians like her.


The president falsely accused Haitians in Ohio of eating pets. Now he’s trying to deport them.


The president’s racism is making his party antsy.


The Super Bowl performer’s ties to a nascent independence movement are roiling Puerto Rican politics.


The short answer is that this Supreme Court loves gerrymandering more than it hates Democrats.


Wildfires are a growing threat. Do we need a new federal agency to help?


The immigration agents leaving Minneapolis, briefly explained.


This DOJ is no longer capable of doing its job.


His case has become a vehicle for a strain of anti-elite populism that’s growing across the political spectrum.


A federal court says deportation protections for Haitian immigrants will remain in place.


We’re about to lose our last nuclear arms control treaty with Russia. What does that mean?


Even some of the president’s supporters think he’s mishandling issues like the economy and immigration.


One big reason why Trump has been losing the youngest voters.


What to know about the latest — and last? — Epstein release.


The Supreme Court is the GOP’s most durable power center. It makes no sense for them to endanger that source of power.


The president has always loved theater. It’s never loved him back.


A short history of presidential spouses making bank.


Is this what democracy looks like?


Minnesota provides a blueprint for how to prevent a slide into authoritarianism we’ve seen in other countries.


The president has turned his biggest political asset into a liability.


He’s teaching some dangerous lessons to China and Russia.


His followers are drifting toward Nick Fuentes, his onetime nemesis.


A MAGA diehard on ICE in Minneapolis, the Epstein files, and what Trump must do before the midterms.


The new footage of Pretti clashing with ICE is real — and irrelevant.


Trump’s Justice Department is arresting journalists.


They’re focused on three areas: ending warrantless patrols, curtailing aggressive tactics, and increasing accountability.


Tom Homan, explained.


This Iran war may not end as quickly as the last one.


Trump says “time is running out” for Iran’s regime to make a deal.