Politics

The veteran and Senate candidate from Maine talks about the affordability crisis, his campaign’s controversies, and why he isn’t ashamed about his past offensive comments.

In the biggest films of 2025, artists grappled with the country’s divided politics and increasingly fractured relationship to the truth. Can these works of fiction bring us closer to reality?

Nick Allen’s venue in Dimes Square was a popular gathering spot for right-wing Zoomers. Now he’s opening a new club called Reign, an attempt to build a lasting cultural institution.

The former C.I.A. director and Secretary of Defense explains the problem with using the military for law enforcement.

Taking stock of how American norms, ideals, and values have been transformed by Trump 2.0.

The senator, currently being investigated by the Justice Department, notes that the President can’t stop thinking about him: “I live rent-free in that guy’s head.”

A new book, “The London Consensus,” offers a framework for rethinking economic policy in a fractured age of inequality, populism, and political crisis.

In recent years, severing ties with family members over political differences has become increasingly normalized. Is going “no contact” a necessary boundary, or a harmful overcorrection?

Even in cases like Luigi Mangione’s, the intentions of assassins are dwarfed by the meanings we project onto them.

The governor of Illinois discusses what ICE is doing in Chicago, how the Trump Administration has created a “secret police,” and what to do when the federal government is breaking the law.

The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

The author’s new essay collection, “Dead and Alive,” addresses debates on representation in literature, feminism, and how our phones have radicalized us.

In the new book “Enshittification,” Cory Doctorow argues that the deterioration of the online user experience is a deliberate business strategy; he chats with the tech columnist Kyle Chayka.

The Democratic candidate for New York City mayor discusses threats from the President, and what socialism means in practice.

The writer and podcast host on the Charlie Kirk discourse, Barack Obama’s distance from politics, Bari Weiss’s Gaza coverage, and the Democratic Party’s future.

The future of American democracy could depend on whether Christians see themselves as warriors or servants.

Joshua Citarella sees his YouTube show “Doomscroll” as a “tactical media experiment” to funnel young internet users toward esoteric left-wing ideas.

Graham Platner, a local veteran, is angling to take on Susan Collins, who may be vulnerable in her 2026 reëlection bid—and is drawing support from both sides of the aisle.

Zohran Mamdani isn’t the only candidate challenging the status quo—and having fun doing it.

The veteran negotiators Hussein Agha and Robert Malley spent decades trying to broker peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and they know why it failed.