Democrats
Leigh Ann Caldwell
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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
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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.
Julia Ioffe
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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.”
Tara Palmeri
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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.
Peter Hamby
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February 26, 2025
Elon’s Icarus Moment
New focus groups of swing state voters found reserves of goodwill for Trump—perceived as a man of action compared to “feckless” Democrats—but deep distrust toward Musk, widely viewed as “weird,” “radical,” and “selfish.” Mostly, however, they just wanted to talk about the astounding price of eggs.
Leigh Ann Caldwell
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February 23, 2025
Scenes From the Democratic Marriage
A month after the inauguration, rival Democratic factions are coalescing around the potency of an anti-billionaire messaging. On the topic of pretty much everything else, however, they are aligned in agreeing to disagree.
Peter Hamby
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February 19, 2025
Kamala ’28 Falls in the Forest
Revealing new poll numbers on the next (celebrity?) iteration of counter-Trump politics, and what Democrats want for Harris’s future.
Leigh Ann Caldwell
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February 16, 2025
“Not the Time to Panic”
Hill Democrats aren’t just depressed about their lack of political power and direction. Privately, they wonder aloud how they’ve been swept up in a McCarthy-esque cultural purge. Rep. Adam Smith offers a slightly more constructive view.
Peter Hamby
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February 13, 2025
Caruso, Kamala, and the Battle for L.A.
With eyes on both the L.A. mayor’s office and the governor’s mansion, Rick Caruso is reinjecting himself into California politics at a frenetic pace—rebuilding the city, taking potshots at Karen Bass, and potentially squaring off against Kamala Harris as she considers her own next act.