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Janet Mills and Graham Platner, rivals in Maine’s Democratic Senate primary.

What Maine’s U.S. Senate Primary Tells Us About the Democratic Party

by Bill Scher December 12, 2025December 11, 2025

The Kalven Trap

by Christoph Irmscher December 11, 2025February 3, 2026

Democrats are riding high after this year’s special elections, but that still doesn’t mean they’re popular with voters. Strategist Simon Bazelon has advice on what to fix.

Tough Medicine for Democrats: “Too Liberal” and “Out of Touch”

by Anne Kim December 10, 2025December 10, 2025

The White-Collar Crime House: A new gold script sign is mounted outside the Oval Office of the White House, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025, in Washington.

The Main Beneficiaries of Trump’s Pardons? White-Collar Criminals Like Him

by Bill Scher December 9, 2025December 8, 2025

Nobel Prize winner Eli Weisel backstage before speaking to the United Jewish Appeal Convention in Washington.

Elie Wiesel’s “Wounded Faith”

by David Masciotra December 8, 2025February 3, 2026

Stephen Miller and Calvin Coolidge

On Immigration, Stephen Miller Is no Calvin Coolidge

by Bill Scher December 5, 2025December 4, 2025

Apprenticeships

Trump’s Broken Promise of “One Million Apprentices”

by Anne Kim December 4, 2025December 4, 2025

health care plan: Health insurance application form with stethoscope and calculator

For Democrats, a New Way to Make Health Care Affordable

by Merrill Goozner December 2, 2025February 3, 2026

Affordability: President Donald Trump speaks with reporters while in flight on Air Force One from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., to Joint Base Andrews, Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025.

Affordability: How Trump Has Made It Worse

by Robert J. Shapiro December 2, 2025December 1, 2025

Govern by euphemism: In Trump’s Washington, helping Hispanic-serving colleges becomes “racial bias”—and cutting their funding becomes “equal protection.”

Higher Education

The Quiet War on Hispanic-Serving Colleges

by Rob Wolfe December 1, 2025December 1, 2025

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