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The Squad

On the Hill, which is filled with gossips and more gossips, observers are trying to decipher A.O.C.’s strategy.
Tara Palmeri • March 13, 2023

The Remaking of A.O.C.

Five years into her legislative career, a more subdued and party-line-toeing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is inciting all kinds of curiosity. She’s either playing three dimensional chess en route to the Senate and beyond, or she’s diligently earning her stripes on the Hill. Which is it?
Tina Nguyen • February 1, 2023
The Dark Squad Rises
“Taliban 20”
News and notes on the G.O.P.’s “Taliban 20” detente, George Santos’s political personality disorder, and Ron DeSantis’s digital army.
Tara Palmeri • November 3, 2022
Biden Doomsday Prepping
joe biden
The White House spin machine is in overdrive as Biden’s inner circle debates how to message a possible midterm “shellacking” without acknowledging that it might somehow be their fault.
Congresswomen Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib, Omar, And Pressley Hold News Conference After President Trump Attacks Them On Twitter
Tara Palmeri • October 20, 2022
Post-Squad Goals
The Squad levitated to power in D.C. with unprecedented juice, aplomb, power, and media savvy. But what’s their purpose, or message, in a post-Trump, pre-possible-mini-red-wave world? And will they add new members?
Hillary Clinton
Tara Palmeri • September 19, 2022
A Clinton Revival & Pelosi’s Last Laugh
The muted return of the Clinton Global Initiative’s annual conclave is evidence that its first family is doing some brand burnishing. Plus, a new movement in the Pelosi succession drama and the leadership ambitions encircling The Squad.