


Democrats are struggling to respond to Trump
First, the party must work out what it stands for
EVERY DAY, President Donald Trump gives fresh reasons for Democrats to rue their election loss in 2024. The failures of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris mean that everything they professed to care about—the transatlantic alliance, the state’s capacity to improve society, the rule of law—is being unwound. Democrats spent years declaiming that a second Trump presidency would be catastrophic, an existential threat to American democracy. And yet more Americans preferred him to the alternative the Democratic Party set before them. Understanding how it all went so wrong would seem to be a priority.
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DOGE shutters the government’s in-house tech consultancy
Political loyalty appears to be more important than tech skills

Three principles are at play in the cases concerning DOGE
Though by the time the courts are done, Elon may be too

The women vying to make conservatism fashionable online
Intellectual dominance is not enough for the MAGA movement. Aesthetic dominance must follow
Donald Trump deploys new tactics to manage the media
Free-speech groups worry how far he will go
Donald Trump’s Washington reaches a new partisan peak
His address to Congress showed that Republicans will follow their leader anywhere, and that Democrats don’t have one
Andrew Cuomo plots a comeback in New York
Polls suggest the city still loves a rogue