Russell Berman

They aren't the dominant force in their hometown. I n the weeks after he was elected mayor of New York City last fall, Zohran Mamdani worked

Once unpredictable, Trump is now flailing. A desultory, grievance-filled speech on what should have been a joyous occasion.

Jonathan Lemire and Russell Berman The Atlantic One day that captures how Trump has gone from unpredictable to chaotic

They're over moderates and incumbents. S omething is happening in the Democratic base. For a year and a half Democrats have been disgusted with President Trump.

The party is getting a redo, but will they blow it? T he Nazi tattoo wasn't bad enough to force Graham Platner to abandon his Senate bid, his defenders argued earlier this year.

B rian Poindexter had just finished wolfing down a Reuben sandwich in a deli outside Cleveland when he delivered a message that, coming from a

Y ou won't find a much harsher critic of the Democratic Party than the progressive trying to secure its nomination for Senate in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed.

Wisconsin has never been a bastion of moderation. W isconsin has been the nation's most closely divided state for a quarter century.

In April 1997, President Roman Herzog told Germany it needed a Ruck — a jolt — to break out of national lethargy and undertake deep reform. Twenty-nine years later, many of the issues he identified remain unresolved. The jolt that may arrive on 6 September would test the resilience of the political system rather than reform it.

Ed Markey will be 86 at the end of his next term. M any Democrats of a certain age took the same message from the party's 2024 debacle: Voters