When Kentucky’s Andy Beshear says ICE should be withdrawn from its deployments, you know something interesting is happening out there.

To win back working-class voters, they need to signal more clearly to working people that they are on their side. That means picking fights on their behalf with the bad actors who are making their lives harder—and the democracy-hating billionaires.

In TNR’s exclusive new poll, loyal Democratic voters make it plain: They want a party that goes after the people making their lives harder.

Today’s Democrats could aspire just to return us to some pre-Trump “normal.” But for millions of Americans, that isn’t nearly good enough. The country needs a Democratic Party that seeks to create a new and far better “normal”—and that’s willing to fight the people standing in the way.

New York journalist Peter Sterne says that Zohran Mamdani’s first month as mayor shows a politician balancing big goals with a lot of barriers to them.

New York journalist Peter Sterne says that Zohran Mamdani’s first month as mayor shows a politician balancing big goals with a lot of barriers to them.

HBO’s smash-hit medical drama can be off-putting in its overt wonkery, but there’s a method to the maudlin.

The results are in from our recent readers’ poll. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gets high marks. Kamala Harris, not so much.

As new revelations make the FBI’s seizure of Georgia ballots look worse, a voting rights advocate walks us through the nightmare scenarios for 2026—and how we can prepare for them right now.

Donald Trump appears to have admitted defeat.

We’re the problem. It’s us.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump’s approval rating is tanking.

Representative Becca Balint tore into the attorney general.

Representative Jared Moskowitz begged the attorney general to turn her canned ire on him.

The Pentagon appeared to believe the balloon was a foreign drone.

Donald Trump is ready to quit the USMCA, which he negotiated in his first term.

The attorney general couldn’t—or wouldn’t—explain the redactions in the Epstein files.

His corrupt threat to block the opening of the Gordie Howe Bridge is about to become a big albatross around the necks of GOP candidates in pivotal Michigan.

A person sitting behind Bondi would tell her which page to turn to as Democratic representatives questioned the attorney general.