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The Real Threat to Democrats Isn’t Redistricting
It’s themselves.
Ruy Teixeira
The Confederacy Is Great Again at This Texas School
Robert E. Lee High School ditched its name in 2020. The school board just voted to reverse the decision. People in the community are baffled.
Carrie McKean
Bari’s Picks of the Week: Hidden Figures
The race to make designer babies. The Democratic financier turned MAGA moneyman. Why Amanda Knox forgave her prosecutor. Taylor Swift. And more.
Bari Weiss
The Wall Street Democrat Who Became MAGA’s Favorite Money Man
Omeed Malik went from donating to Hillary Clinton to being Donald Trump Jr.’s boss and Tucker Carlson’s financier. Is he an opportunist or a true…
Gabe Kaminsky
The Democrats Have No Immigration Plan
The question isn’t whether Trump’s plans are bad. They are. Democrats are losing because they don’t have an alternative.
Freddie deBoer
The Autoworkers Want Their Union Back
A surge in white-collar membership has caused a leftward lurch in the UAW’s politics and a collision with its blue-collar base.
Frannie Block
Trump’s Big, Beautiful Ballroom
D.C. used to be the city of happy hours in the Marriott Marquis. But now, and I hate to admit it, the capital is becoming fun.
Suzy Weiss
GOP ‘Divide’ over Israel Is Mostly Fiction
The real breakdown in support for Israel is on the Democratic side of the aisle.
Matthew Continetti
The iPhone Update That Could Wreck Political Fundraising
A new feature will intercept text messages and might cost campaigns hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
Gabe Kaminsky
Why Sydney Sweeney’s Body Is Causing a Total Meltdown
For a few short years, ads had to buy in to the fiction that anyone can be beautiful. Now, the vibe shift is here, and it’s hot, blonde, and sprawled…
Kara Kennedy
Why Blue States Can’t Have Nice Things
At Wheeler Farm in Utah, an employee repaired a broken plank with a nail gun. At the LA Zoo, that same fix could take a report, a contractor, and a…
Jacob Savage
The Democrat Fighting the Gerontocracy
Most Democrats would rather talk about anything other than Biden’s decline and aging politicians. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez isn’t like most Democrats.
Gabe Kaminsky
‘Capitalism Is Theft’: I Followed Zohran Mamdani’s Internet Trail
More than 16,000 tweets in 18 years reveal a vision far more revolutionary than the candidate’s polished campaign bio.
Olivia Reingold
Will Trump Learn from the Epstein Affair?
It’s rare for the president to lose control of the narrative, but he did last week.
Matthew Continetti
Do Democrats Need ‘Their Own Trump’?
Elections analyst Galen Druke sits down with Coleman to discuss what Democrats need to do to become relevant again—and whether you can really trust the…
Coleman Hughes
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‘They Know He’s Going to Become the Next Mayor’
Zohran Mamdani looks unstoppable to many of his natural enemies, even if Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo refuse to see it.
Olivia Reingold
Biden’s Autopen Is a Distraction from the Real Scandal
Republicans are focused on Biden’s use of an autopen in the flurry of pardons he issued before leaving office. But the real scandal is out in the open.
Jed Rubenfeld
Progressives Against Progress
Whether it’s on identity, economics, or merit, the American left is no longer committed to progress. Can it return to the universal values on which it…
Ruy Teixeira
Tina Brown: MAGA Is Right About Jeffrey Epstein
I have never fully believed that Epstein committed suicide, and my skepticism grows the more the mysteries accumulate.
Tina Brown
Is Elon Musk the New Ross Perot?
Washington plays by different rules than Silicon Valley. Musk hasn’t mastered them.
Matthew Continetti
After Trump Was Shot, He Called Me
Salena Zito was four feet away from the stage when President Trump took a bullet—and has written a new book about the experience. She joins Peter…
Salena Zito
Have You Heard the Good News?
Because the progressive left and the MAGA right clearly have not.
Clifford S. Asness and Michael R. Strain
How the Yuppies Became Socialists
Fifty years ago, the professional managerial class swung right. Today, in America’s biggest cities, they’re voting for leftists like Zohran Mamdani…
River Page
I Helped AOC Win. I Understand the Fantasy Zohran Is Selling.
Growing up has taught me that prosperity comes from less government, less regulation, and lower taxes, not more of them.
Lucy Biggers
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