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Photo: Francis Chung/POLITICO/AP Photo The last three months have represented a winter of deep discontent for the Democratic Party. Finger-pointing recriminations over responsibility for the 2024 election outcome have not ended. The speed and lawlessness with which the Trump administration has acted in its first two months in power caught the opposition party ill-prepared, particularly […]

Photo: Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo The field for New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary has grown even wider, adding former governor Andrew Cuomo and City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams to its ranks. But recent fundraising figures show two candidates ahead of the pack in the run-up to the June election. Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic

Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images In the final hours of his presidency, Joe Biden issued a slate of pardons for the members of the House Select Committee tasked with investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. The president defended the unprecedented use of his office’s power as a necessity due to the looming

Photo: El Salvador Presidency / Handout/Anadolu/Getty Images The Trump administration has stepped right up to the line of intentional defiance of a judicial order, perhaps even over it. We should know in the hours and days ahead whether we have arrived at a legitimate constitutional crossroads — that’ll depend on the details — or whether

Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photos: Getty If Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous inventor of Bitcoin, was who I believed him to be, he was not going to acknowledge it. He probably wouldn’t talk to me. And seeing him was going to mean sitting on a plane for 20 hours and driving another eight. But I needed to try

Photo: Rich Storry/Getty Images Peligro Sports employee Randy Rodriguez was smiling sheepishly. Standing in front of an array of caps at a Washington Heights sporting-goods store one day last month, he admitted he was abandoning the Yankees. Never mind that the team has won 27 championships, made it to the World Series last year, and