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Ken Martin gesticulates while speaking into a microphone.

Emma Janssen, The New Republic Staff

What Dems Really Think About the NYT’s DNC Report

Welcome to The TNR Blue Book. Today, read about Democratic infighting, wildfires, and more.

Elijah Manley at a protest in 2021

Right Now With Perry Bacon

Can This Well-Known Florida Democrat Survive the Progressive Surge?

Progressive Elijah Manley says that South Florida needs a bolder representative than longtime Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

Why Elena Kagan is Defending the Roberts Court

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan leaves after testifying during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on July 14, 2026.

Why Elena Kagan is Defending the Roberts Court

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Bernard Arnault, billionaire and chairman of LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE, photographs his alma mater at a ceremony to mark the funding of a new math research institute at Les Invalides, in Paris, France.

Turns Out France Has an Oligarch Problem Too

Le Monde relates the adventures of Bernard Arnault, ninth-richest human on the planet.

Ken Martin, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, speaks during Day 1 of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party Convention in the Mayo Civic Center in Rochester, Minn. on Friday, May 29, 2026.

Michael Tomasky

Is This Guy the Worst Party Chair in the History of the United States?

Ken Martin once seemed like a promising leader of the DNC. But his reign has been disastrous—and the time has come to turn to the man he defeated.