Jason Zengerle

The most powerful man in the West Wing is getting what he wants. Is Trump?

Blaire Fleming was a little-known college player. Then she suddenly became a symbol of injustice — to both sides of the controversy.

Of all the figures who surround Donald Trump, his eldest son may offer the best window into the future of the MAGA movement.

A year after leaving Fox News, Carlson has figured out how to exercise power and influence in less public ways.

Marie Gluesenkamp Perez flipped a rural red district to get to Congress. Now she wants to help her party do more of the same.

For all the news that the former president makes, the Biden team is struggling to make the campaign about him.

The cable host has left Fox News. But his dark and outsize influence on the conservative movement — and on American politics — is hardly over.

In “The Long Alliance,” Gabriel Debenedetti traces how political leaders of different generations and contrasting temperaments helped each other succeed.

Americans are seeing a lot less of the president than they did of his predecessor. That’s partly by design.

Their positions are popular. So why are they going extinct?

Two Republican Senate candidates field-test a new message honed in the cable-news studio.

Once an ordinary citizen stumbles into the culture war, it can be hard to get back out. Just ask Michael Fanone.

He gave more than $15 million to L.G.B.T.Q. causes over his life and was appointed ambassador to Luxembourg, which caused a Senate standoff.

The company doubled its sales last year by leaning into America’s culture war. It’s also trying to distance itself from some of its new customers.

A postgame interview offers a reminder that the spectacle of public life is best backed up with real work.

Any number of hallowed political and media institutions fell apart. So why should the most hallowed political-media institution of them all escape unscathed?

President Biden ought to be good for ratings. But it’s impossible to imagine small-bore scandals satisfying an audience that thinks the presidency was stolen.

In his autobiography, “I Came as a Shadow,” Thompson recalls his childhood in segregated Washington, D.C., and his decades as both an athletic and a cultural force.

Democrats believe the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee could be the man to bring down President Trump. This is how he’s running his investigation.

Old-school obsessions with optics and back-room strategizing seem pointless this year. Nowhere is that clearer than on “The Circus.”