We won’t be talking student loan relief once Trump takes office. We’ll be talking about the abolition of the Department of Education.

One of Trump’s central campaign claims was that green energy and immigration pose a massive threat to American workers. But now it seems local Republicans think otherwise.

Claudia Sheinbaum’s response to Trump’s threat of tariffs revealed truths that the president-elect doesn’t want Americans to know.

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

A renewed zeal for regulatory reform among Democrats shouldn’t tear down the infrastructure that keeps us safe, but it should eliminate all the obstacles that make it annoying to access.

The world’s richest man is poised to go after the country’s most impoverished citizens under the false pretense of cracking down on fraud.

He wants someone who’ll sell Wall Street on across-the-board tariffs. That person doesn’t exist.

Sanders’s time as a presidential candidate has passed, but his ideas are still valuable for a party that needs to persuade voters to return home from MAGA.

No working-class majority, no presidential victory. When will Democrats understand this?

The former president weighs resurrecting Andrew Puzder for labor secretary, a scandal-ridden nominee who had to withdraw the last time he tried to join the Republican’s administration.

Harris has been dinged for not focusing enough on the economy. Her swing-state advertising says dramatically otherwise—and the media largely missed it.

The members of the billionaire executive class have billed themselves as great men of history beyond scrutiny and reproach. This is the year that shattered the illusion.

He caught hell at the time for mismanaging Covid. But now we indulge Trump’s fantasy that his presidency ended in February 2020.

Donald Trump has pledged to remove all undocumented immigrants from the U.S.—but such a policy could have a slew of unintended consequences.

If Walt Whitman helped take American poetry to new heights, the former president’s free-verse stylings have brought it back down to earth.

Kamala Harris’s worst campaign surrogate has worn out his welcome.

For Trump, it’s “America First”—unless it conflicts with the interests of his plutocrat allies.

A Times/Siena poll shows working-class voters are finally moving in the Democrat’s direction. She may need them to win in November.

If elected, Trump plans to cancel huge numbers of manufacturing jobs in the heartland. Democrats should put them on the defensive.

His solution to the housing crisis is the perfect distillation of Trumpism: It’s mind-blowingly evil, and it has no hope of working.