Politics
This November, Vote Like Alito Is on the Ballot This November, Vote Like Alito Is on the Ballot
In this week’s Elie v. U.S., our justice correspondent gives Democrats another reason to vote in November. Plus: How Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s Medicaid unmasked the racists.
Does America First Really Mean Israel First? Does America First Really Mean Israel First?
Mike Huckabee’s aide shows how an extremist agenda dominates Trump’s Middle East policy.
Trump’s Die-Hards Are Taking Their Cultishness to New Lows Trump’s Die-Hards Are Taking Their Cultishness to New Lows
I’m finally starting to understand why Jim Jones’s lieutenants didn’t try to stop him.
How the Skydance Merger Will Remake Hollywood and the News Business How the Skydance Merger Will Remake Hollywood and the News Business
The Ellison family’s $110 billion deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery means more top-down control, and less room for dissent.
State Politics
Florida Isn’t Red. Democrats Just Stopped Showing Up. Florida Isn’t Red. Democrats Just Stopped Showing Up.
With more than 900,000 Puerto Rican voters, Florida can be won in 2026 and put in play for 2028. Give Angie Nixon the chance she deserves.
What Gen Z Actually Wants, According to the DNC’s Youngest Member What Gen Z Actually Wants, According to the DNC’s Youngest Member
Milan van Dam says Gen Z is the generation that is most empathetic toward their peers.
Michigan’s Senate Race Is a Testing Ground Michigan’s Senate Race Is a Testing Ground
We must counter fear and division with solidarity.
The Right
How the Skydance Merger Will Remake Hollywood and the News Business How the Skydance Merger Will Remake Hollywood and the News Business
The Ellison family’s $110 billion deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery means more top-down control, and less room for dissent.
The Conservative Organization Building a New Young Elite The Conservative Organization Building a New Young Elite
From pro-life summits to Palantir résumé drops, the David Network is discreetly building a pipeline for conservative college students.
Does Staten Island Explain the Trump Age?—With Ben Naddaff-Hafrey Does Staten Island Explain the Trump Age?—With Ben Naddaff-Hafrey
Ben Naddaff-Hafrey joins Fighting Fascism to revisit Staten Island’s 1990s secession movement—and what the borough can teach us about resentment, politics, and Wu-Tang.
Fighting Fascism / Jonathan Smucker, Aaron Regunberg, and Matt DaSilva
Democrats
Florida Isn’t Red. Democrats Just Stopped Showing Up. Florida Isn’t Red. Democrats Just Stopped Showing Up.
With more than 900,000 Puerto Rican voters, Florida can be won in 2026 and put in play for 2028. Give Angie Nixon the chance she deserves.
We Need More Pro-Trans Politicians. This Group Thinks It Knows How to Get Them. We Need More Pro-Trans Politicians. This Group Thinks It Knows How to Get Them.
Talking to Tyler Hack, who leads the nation’s only political action group dedicated solely to getting trans rights supporters elected.
Trump Is Destroying Public Health. Democrats Need to Fight Back. Trump Is Destroying Public Health. Democrats Need to Fight Back.
If they win in the midterms, the party must move quickly and aggressively to undo the harm Trump and his cronies have caused.
The GOP’s Incredible Shrinking Senate Map The GOP’s Incredible Shrinking Senate Map
Trump has so badly damaged the Republican Party’s brand that strategists are contemplating bitter fights—and losses—in races they’d been banking on as sure things.
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