Everyone agrees antics around the spending-bill deadline are nothing but callous political stunts — so why do we agree to be governed like this at all?
Analysis
By fighting gerrymandering with gerrymandering, Democrats are betraying their own democratic principles.
Democrats are using Trump’s apocalyptic bill as a campaign gimmick — and ignoring their role in its cruelty.
There will now be a high-stakes battle to define the meaning of the New York mayoral candidate’s historic win.
Years of multimillion-dollar investments by conservative advocacy groups delivered Trump and congressional Republicans’ Big Beautiful Betrayal.
The resistance won’t succeed until it stops being a performance and starts challenging the system that got us here.