Democrats

The billionaire’s latest venture into U.S. politics points to cracks in the two-party system—even if it might flop.

Senator Elissa Slotkin, of Michigan, on how Trump voters who believe that the President has a “grand plan” are going to end up with less money in their pockets.

Senator Cory Booker on the grave harm that Donald Trump has inflicted on American life in his first hundred days in office.

More than two hundred protests against Elon Musk and DOGE took place worldwide over the weekend. The staff writer Sarah Larson attended one.

Senator Chris Murphy, of Connecticut, describes how free and fair elections might end in America as soon as 2026.

“NASA is going to be politicized in a way that it’s never been politicized before,” the reporter David W. Brown says. “And I’m afraid there’s no way to undo that once it’s happened.”

In Arizona, a crowd of thousands suggested that the left still has a pulse.

A rarely invoked 1798 law, the Alien Enemies Act, may have set off a constitutional crisis.

“I always compare tariffs to a boxing match,” the staff writer John Cassidy says. “The other guy punches you back, you punch, and who’s gonna stop it?”

“Donald Trump ran for President promising vengeance,” the staff writer Eric Lach says. “The Adams situation is in some ways fascinating because it’s part of the demonstration of the flip side of that—which is leniency for friends.”

Kamala Harris’s running mate describes losing in 2024, opposing Donald Trump now, and his future.

“Obviously, it’s a biological phenomenon, but it also is largely a cultural phenomenon,” the staff writer Gideon Lewis-Kraus says.

The Pennsylvania senator says the Administration is dumping “three feet of raw sewage” on America, “and we have a Dixie cup” to bail it out. But Democrats have to work with Trump.

“For a long time, Silicon Valley has wanted to try to replace the government, and has thought that they would be better at governing the country than, you know, the Democrats and the Republicans alike,” the staff writer Kyle Chayka says.

“I think the Democrats have worked themselves into a bit of a corner,” the writer Brady Brickner-Wood says. “They’re going to need to soul search in a way that’s not just performative and is consistent with their values.”

The veteran transportation-safety reporter Matthew L. Wald breaks down the dangers of airline safety becoming a political flashpoint.

 “We are in an era of a real reckoning with the relationship of the President to the other branches of government,” the Harvard Law professor and New Yorker contributor Jeannie Suk Gersen says.

“The hunger that there was to know every detail, every tweet, every remark, has receded immeasurably, to Trump’s benefit,” the editor of The New Yorker says.

“Nobody’s defending Gavin Newsom,” the staff writer Jay Caspian Kang says. “I think he’s probably in a lot of trouble. And I do think that this might have tanked his Presidential ambitions.”

Pierre Poilievre might now attain the country’s highest office. “I was sickened and appalled when I first came upon his rhetoric,” the staff writer Adam Gopnik says, of the Conservative Party leader.