Benjamin Wallace-Wells

Francesca Hong’s rise in Wisconsin was supposed to portend a major breakthrough for the left. Her narrow loss should still be a wake-up call for the Party’s establishment.

As Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan’s newly elected Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, put it, “People really effing hate data centers.”

Max Miller’s bitter domestic dispute—in which he’s accused of physical abuse by his ex-wife, the daughter of Ohio’s senior senator—is testing the Republican Party’s willingness to defend the indefensible.

It’s been a tumultuous primary season, but is this the Democrats’ Tea Party moment? Or is something more pragmatic emerging?

The exact reasons are often left vague and the successors to be determined, but people are leaving the Administration—including three Cabinet secretaries.

The two men might wish that they lived in a world where whoever dropped the most bombs got whatever he wanted. But the war has shown that this isn’t true.

The present mess has roots in two entangled, defining White House projects: DOGE and the mind-bending expansion of ICE.

In Tuesday night’s twin primaries for the U.S. Senate in Texas, each party was navigating a balance between its current iteration and what may replace it—“in one case, delicately, and in the other, not so much,” Benjamin Wallace-Wells writes.

During the President’s second Administration, universal principles such as self-determination and due process are wielded only opportunistically.

Was the Vice-President’s exclusion from the operation in Venezuela an expression of his anti-interventionist ideology—or a political calculation?