Politics
What really matters in the world of politics, campaigns, ideology, and more.
Rising power bills quietly shaped this year’s races — and gave Democrats a new attack line on climate.
Movies like A House of Dynamite get a lot right. But they’re missing an important danger.
Vox’s Astead Herndon and immigration reporter Molly O’Toole unpack the latest (confusing) polls.
Federalism: It matters!
The Trump administration just killed an IRS tool for free, direct tax filing.
What New Jersey can teach the parties about Latino voters.
The 2025 elections illuminate a nightmare scenario for the Republican Party.
The Supreme Court might take away Trump’s international weapon of first resort.
Trump’s tariffs appear to be in trouble.
Can “affordability” be more than just a campaign pitch?
What “democratic socialism” really means.
Democrats romped in both high-profile and low-profile elections Tuesday, in what clearly seemed like a national trend.
The Court has made a hash of its religion decisions. Damon Landor may be the newest victim of that uncertainty.
Vox’s Astead Herndon explains why Zohran Mamdani’s win matters for Democrats.
Trump muddies the waters on urgent food assistance.
Cheney’s final political act was patriotism, but his life’s work was autocracy.
One of the Democrats’ best political issues is to defend to Affordable Care Act. Is it worth defending?
The debate over youth gender identity polling, explained.
Why people are pitting Malala Yousafzai and Greta Thunberg against each other.
Trump’s preventable SNAP chaos, briefly explained.
How it feels to be a Muslim New Yorker and see Islamophobia wielded against Mamdani.
How do you sell America when no one agrees on what America is?
Reasonable people can disagree about whether Hitler was good, says the Heritage Foundation.
A new purge of ICE leaders and the empowerment of Border Patrol sets the stage for a more extreme crackdown in US cities.
The government shutdown and the new war on food stamps.
The bizarre conservative misunderstanding of The Lord of the Rings, explained.
The paradox at the heart of today’s economy.
Trump’s National Guard “quick reaction forces,” briefly explained.
Jimmy Kimmel was just one round in the ongoing debate over free speech.
A trade truce, a nuclear threat: What to make of the Trump-Xi meeting.
A new strategy to stop business elites from bending the knee.
If the Republican justices apply the same rules to Trump that they did to Biden, Trump’s tariffs must fall.
Kat Abughazaleh described her indictment as “a political prosecution.”
Does the case for centrism stand up to scrutiny?
Voters are still really angry about inflation and high prices.
The ballroom project is totally unprecedented.
The president’s peacemaking claims range from partly true to misleading to baffling.
Can the NYC mayoral race prove it’s a winning issue?
Trump is mad at an anti-tariff ad from Canada — so he’s ratcheting up his tariffs.