Donald Trump’s second term has ushered in a new era in American politics. It’s brasher, crueler, more direct, more super online, and certainly more dystopian. Democrats and sometimes even Republicans ...

Only one American woman in politics, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, made Forbes’s 2025 list of most powerful women.

Gerrymandering is almost as old as the US republic itself. It’s the process of drawing electoral district lines in sometimes absurd ways to fortify one political party at the expense of another.

What to make of these recent political developments? Seattle has clearly shifted back to the progressive camp. The centrists are sinking, one after the other. Mayor Bruce Harrell is the latest to go ...

When host Garry Kasparov created the Renew Democracy Initiative in 2017, the founding manifesto warned that “the liberal-democratic order is under attack from within and without.” Eight years later, ...

You might be imagining someone who takes their time considering the candidates and their positions on the issues, who generally has faith in the political system, who sometimes votes for Republicans ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Historians said President Trump’s unorthodox policies and disregard for laws and norms are partly to blame for a ...

Last week’s elections have hardened quickly into today’s broad strategic wisdom: American politics is now, above all, about affordability, sometimes also called “cost of living.” The terms imply a new ...