Peter Hamby • March 18, 2025

Is Trump Tempting the Doom Loop?

The president is moving with unprecedented speed—including, it seems, in losing the trust and political capital of the very people who put him in the Oval Office. Echelon’s new polling numbers reveal the accelerating erosion of public sentiment on the economy, Ukraine, their tariff-tossed 401(k)s, and, yes, the price of everything.

Abby Livingston • March 18, 2025

Dems Contemplate Their Tea Party Moment

The current animosity rippling through the party isn’t along the familiar personal or ideological lines, but over a tactical dispute on how to fight Republicans. The first signs of a revolt are already manifesting on the campaign trail.

Leigh Ann Caldwell • March 16, 2025

OK, Schumer

Last week, the Senate Democratic leader finally made a decision to avert a government shutdown. Now he faces the music within his own party.

Julia Ioffe • March 13, 2025

Putin’s Art of No Deal

Putin has responded to Washington and Kyiv’s ceasefire proposal by doing what he does best: dragging negotiators into diplomatic purgatory while continuing to fight.

Leigh Ann Caldwell • March 13, 2025

What the Chuck?

As responsibility for funding the government falls on the Senate, Democrats are growing nervous that Chuck Schumer hasn’t offered them much of a strategy, or a viable off-ramp, to navigate what Republicans are already framing as a possible “Schumer shutdown.”

Peter Hamby • March 12, 2025

Gavin’s Roganitis

The California governor’s progressive-spurning, slightly-too-solicitous podcast debut with Charlie Kirk, featuring Newsom’s very public reversal on the issue of trans women in sports, is being closely watched by Democratic operatives as the party tests new mediums, new media strategies, and the bounds of its post-election repositioning.

Abby Livingston • March 11, 2025

Trump’s Unified Theory of House Head-Rolling

Mike Johnson is betting that Trump can strong-arm nearly every House Republican into voting for his spending bill—taking the air out of Democratic hopes to extract some political pain, and turning up the pressure on the Senate.

Leigh Ann Caldwell • March 9, 2025

Dem Group Therapy Goes Awry

Not surprisingly, the Democrats are divided—within the party, and among chambers—about the upcoming shutdown crisis, and what to do if the government does, indeed, shut down.

Leigh Ann Caldwell • March 6, 2025

Rand Takes His Stand

The libertarian Kentucky senator Rand Paul is one of few Republicans to openly oppose Trump on tariffs and separation of powers. Is anyone listening?

Peter Hamby • March 5, 2025

Revenge of the Nerds

Senate Democrats’ corny but MAGA-baiting social media experiment may actually have been a masterstroke, with Cory Booker et al. finally learning to plagiarize Trump’s media playbook.

Peter Hamby • March 5, 2025

The Boys of Bummer

Exclusive new polling reveals how the Gen Z men who helped put Trump in the White House—Dave Portnoy types who are into sports, stocks, and crypto—are souring on his presidency as expectations for a shiny new economy collide with our current, tariff-laden reality.

Julia Ioffe • March 3, 2025

Après Zelensky

While Democrats rush to express support for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky following his Oval Office thrashing, even some supporters are whispering that he “stepped in it.”

Leigh Ann Caldwell • March 2, 2025

Trump Prepares the Tim Scott Whack-a-Mole

The president wants to avoid a repeat of his party’s 2018 midterm shellacking. But there’s already friction with N.R.S.C. chair Tim Scott, and plenty of beef with a crew of ’26 incumbents.

Tara Palmeri • February 28, 2025

A Biden Family Insider Tells All

Michael LaRosa, longtime press secretary for first lady Jill Biden, opens up about how aides hid the president from the press and ignored bad polls, as well as the “cover-up” allegations at the center of the great 2024 blame game.

Leigh Ann Caldwell • February 27, 2025

Trump’s Screaming Call & G.O.P. Moderate Misery

The House has cleared a budget hurdle… barely. But the chamber’s Republican lawmakers may yet be thwarted by their own internal dynamics—not to mention the Senate.