The GOP wants to convince America that socialist, defund-the-police Democrats are responsible for rising crime. Political journalists are already sold.

The party has sold itself as the only thing standing in the way of the existential death of democracy. But it’s not governing as if it believes its own warnings.

It’s politically savvy for Democrats to avoid wading into the “critical race theory” culture war. It’s also a dereliction of duty.

After every election, Democrats seem to talk about how they failed to craft a clear message. So how about bombarding people with a new kind of campaign ad?

Representative Grace Meng of New York wants to curb anti-Asian racism, but activists for defunding the police say her bill won’t solve anything.

We say we’re for it. We’ve never truly had it. These next few years will determine its fate.

The debate over the territory’s status isn’t just dividing Washington. It’s dividing the island’s residents, too.

Activists were pleasantly surprised by some of Biden’s initial steps. But to forestall catastrophe, climate policy has to aim higher.

Done the right way, lowering the program’s eligibility age could reap huge benefits for ordinary Americans, and offer Democrats an electoral advantage.

Are you giving people stuff, or giving companies money to give people stuff?

The Green New Deal Network, the Sunrise Movement, Justice Democrats, and others are pushing the administration to spend more money on climate issues.

The Democratic chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee is raking in a lot of money from the electric utilities.

The only thing that will save the GOP’s preferred procedural weapon is the charity—or the naïveté—of Democrats.

Party leaders like Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer say they won’t repeat the missteps of Barack Obama’s first term. They haven’t proved it quite yet.

Blue Dogs are selectively anxious about when their policies might benefit the wealthy, and their obsession with means testing is going to leave people out to dry in a crisis.

They have one final chance to prove his guilt in inciting the Capitol riot—and they’re squandering it.

The Democratic senator has survived in West Virginia by casting himself as a champion of working people. Will his fixation on bipartisanship prevent him from living up to the role?

Why we can’t afford to make peace with white supremacists

A grim report about Dianne Feinstein’s cognitive decline underlines a larger problem with the leadership of the party.

Brian Deese, expected to head the Biden administration’s National Economic Council, is a longtime adherent of a disastrous energy strategy.