Nostalgia is a powerful political motivator for young people. But they may be yearning for an era that never existed.

Why Democrats and the media are struggling to capture the insanity—and danger—of the new Trump administration.

The president has laid claim to a mandate. But between the infighting that’s returned to his movement and voters looking for immediate relief, his foundation could easily crack.

Democrats are wallowing in their failure to stop a second Trump presidency, which looks to be even more damaging than his first one. Snap out of it!

The party is on life support after a pitiful showing in the 2024 election. And while Trump wants to slash taxes and regulations, he also plans to weaponize the government and restrict personal liberty.

He sold them countless, often conflicting fantasies. In 2025, he’ll face political reality.

Did anything good actually happen this year?

Yes, there was a political backlash to leaders around the world in 2024. But this has been true in the U.S. for many election cycles—and may last for many more.

If we’re being honest, he deserves this ignominy every year. But after Trump dodged justice this year and nonetheless won the presidency, we cannot responsibly give this “award” to anyone else.

How news coverage fuels the widespread, misguided perception that crime is up and cities are unsafe

Democrats should stop scapegoating the system for their shrunken popular clout, and instead make the hard strategic shifts necessary to win it back.

Democrats have striven to set themselves apart from the movement that put Trump in office. Maybe they should imitate it instead.

Over the course of the decade, the party has hoped that voters would simply reject him as immoral, uncouth, and unfit for office. They need a stronger argument—and his Cabinet picks give them one.

A card-carrying member of the economic “precariat” argues that much of what passes for Democratic politics goes right past voters like him.

He didn’t just win the election. He’s also become fully normalized in American culture.

Jon Tester, Sherrod Brown, and Bob Casey all joined the Senate in a blue-wave backlash to George W. Bush in 2006. Eighteen years later, they lost their seats in a Trump wave.

This argument is particularly unconvincing this time around. And it doesn’t offer a realistic prescription for future success.

Far from “America First,” his foreign policy advisers largely believe in using military force abroad—at the risk of entangling the U.S. in more conflicts.

Jeff Bezos’s reign of error at the venerable newspaper has wrecked subscriber trust—and there’s no reason to believe it will rebound anytime soon.