Donald Trump has empowered them to be their worst selves.

Bannon is not thrilled by the growing ranks of Silicon Valley billionaires around Donald Trump.

Donald Trump repeatedly pushed the far-right idea on the campaign trail.

Donald Trump will not face any consequences from Smith’s investigation.

Vance tried to cast the policy as totally normal.

The newspaper’s editorial board has fully caved to Donald Trump.

Here are the most surprising performers.

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.

The city is the epicenter of an anti-progressive movement—financed by the ultrawealthy—that aims to blur political lines and centralize power for the long term. For some, their ambitions don’t stop there.

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.

The climate crisis offers one of the strongest fields imaginable for proving fealty to the working class against rapacious elites.

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.