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Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images The most tiresome intra-Democratic debate of them all soon reached crisis levels after Donald Trump’s 2024 election victory. Should the “party of the people” focus on the threat to democratic institutions MAGA authoritarians most definitely pose? Or should they instead pursue lost non-college-educated voters via the ancient “populist” formula of class […]

Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Getty Images Republicans have a message for all the Elon Musk-haters out there: He isn’t going away. That’s even after Musk put himself center-stage in Wisconsin and poured $25 million into the race for a Supreme Court seat only to see his preferred candidate lose by nine points to Democratic-backed candidate,

Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images A federal judge officially dismissed the pending corruption charges against Eric Adams in an unsurprising but big win for the long-embattled mayor, whose public-approval ratings have plummeted after being indicted by the government last year. In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Dale Ho acknowledged that both Adams and the Justice Department

Photo: Getty Images Democrats easily won a competitive and much-heralded Supreme Court contest in Wisconsin, where the liberal candidate they backed triumphed over a conservative supported by Elon Musk. It’s a humiliating result for the world’s richest man after spending heavily and campaigning personally in the state for conservative Brad Schimel, who was tied to

Illustration: Albert Tercero H olly Davis didn’t believe in luck until she realized just how unlucky she was. Then she couldn’t quite shake it, this sense of having an anti-Midas touch, bad outcomes following her unprovoked. Often, it was the little things. Reservations she made disappeared. Rides she booked never came. Someone else would fill

Photo: J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photos This is a pretty big week in American politics. On Tuesday we’ll see the first special and off-year elections of the second Trump era, and on Wednesday Trump will impose a wide array of new tariffs (an event he calls Liberation Day). But a little-known decision could soon dwarf those

Photo: El Salvador Presidency Handout/Anadolu/Getty Images Last month, the Trump administration invoked the rarely used Alien Enemies Act to place hundreds of Venezuelan and Salvadoran migrants on deportation flights to El Salvador on allegations that they were criminals with extensive gang ties. Though James Boasberg, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., issued an order for

Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call/Getty Images Since Inauguration Day, party activists have been begging elected Democrats to “do something” to interfere with Donald Trump’s agenda. Senate Democrats had the chance on March 14. They, or at least the ten needed to short-circuit any potential filibuster, decided the “something” involved had unacceptable consequences (a government shutdown they

Photo: Steven Hirsch/Getty Images Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered prosecutors on Tuesday to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last December. In a statement, Bondi said that Thompson’s murder was a “premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America.” NEW: @AGPamBondi wants federal prosecutors to seek

Photo: Mike Stobe/Getty Images For all the Shohei Ohtani worship or Paul Skenes hype, nothing in baseball breaks through to the broader public like the possibility of a cheating scandal. Think steroids, Pete Rose betting on his own team, or the Astros’ “banging scheme.” Baseball is more amenable to cheating than some other sports, since