Democratic Party

Facing challenging political headwinds and deep frustration among residents, a Democratic city councilwoman promises a turnaround.

By Rick Rojas

Viral videos showing caustic behavior have blunted her momentum in the California governor’s race. Other campaigns are scrambling to take advantage.

By Laurel Rosenhall and Benjamin Oreskes

On this week’s round table: Courts, Congress and chaos under Trump.

By Michelle Cottle, E. J. Dionne Jr., David French and Derek Arthur

Troop deployment. Black Hawk helicopters landing on apartment buildings in the middle of the night. President Trump’s militarization of blue cities is well underway — and yet, Jon Favreau argues, it’s natural that it’s not top of mind for every voter. On this episode of “The Ezra Klein Show,” Favreau sits down with the Times Opinion columnist Ezra Klein to discuss how Democrats should be thinking about that now and heading into the midterms.

By ‘The Ezra Klein Show’

Jon Favreau considers how the government shutdown could help Democrats rebuild their fractured party.

By Ezra Klein

Jon Favreau considers how the government shutdown could help Democrats rebuild their fractured party.

By ‘The Ezra Klein Show’

“Horseshoe” doesn’t even begin to describe it.

By Michael Hirschorn

On this week’s round table: Courts, Congress and chaos under Trump.

The president’s move to fire federal workers and his threats to make others go without pay were aimed at pressuring Democrats to cut a deal to reopen the government. The tactics have fueled Democrats’ resolve.

By Catie Edmondson

Over seven terms, she garnered millions in funds in helping to revitalize the city. But the political scandals of her son, an ex-mayor, came to shadow her career.

By Adam Nossiter

Zohran Mamdani, the front-runner in the New York City mayor’s race, and Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, have a kinship shaped in part by their shared opposition to the president.

By Jeffery C. Mays

Most Democrats left President Trump conspicuously unmentioned as they cheered a potential end to the conflict, reflecting the tricky politics around the war and their party’s deep hostility to Mr. Trump.

By Reid J. Epstein, Robert Jimison and Megan Mineiro

It is a well-worn strategy to temporarily create a government benefit and hope that its eventual expiration will create a standoff like the shutdown fight.

By Andrew Duehren

President Trump’s long, avid embrace of social media has been eagerly adopted by his top aides, replacing longstanding governmental norms with online ones.

By Jesse McKinley

What the polling says, who’s up, who’s down — and when it might end.

By Frank Bruni, Kristen Soltis Anderson and Nate Silver

When it comes to education policy, Republicans are now kicking Democrats in the butt.

By David Brooks

The city said that National Guard patrols will start on Friday, adding to an ongoing surge of federal forces in the city.

By Emily Cochrane

The threat of rising Obamacare premiums has been Democrats’ main focus in the public debate, but the president’s defiance of laws, norms and congressional constraints has helped hold them together in opposition.

By Carl Hulse

The basic political conflict in America has changed to something very different than the one putting health care to the fore.

By Nate Cohn

The former Democratic congresswoman, known for her own grilling of executives on Capitol Hill, threatened to abandon an interview after she was asked several follow-up questions.

By Laurel Rosenhall

Republicans in the Senate blocked a measure that would terminate the president’s legally disputed campaign targeting alleged drug runners.

By Robert Jimison

Jack Ciattarelli, the Republican nominee, and Representative Mikie Sherrill, the Democrat, described starkly different visions for the state in a debate Wednesday.

By Tracey Tully, Nick Corasaniti and Taylor Robinson

The roughly five-minute confrontation, initiated by Representative Mike Lawler of New York, was intended to draw attention to Democrats’ role in the government shutdown.

By Michael Gold

Two Democratic senators from Arizona confronted Speaker Mike Johnson over his refusal to swear in a newly elected House Democrat, Adelita Grijalva, who had won a special election in their state last month. They also fought over the government shutdown and the Epstein files.

By Jamie Leventhal

State leaders have prided themselves on finding bipartisan consensus, but President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops from Texas to Illinois has ripped the veneer off that image.

By J. David Goodman

As the federal closure slides into a second week, Republicans are working to peel off five more Democratic senators to join them in voting to reopen the government.

By Megan Mineiro

Separately, in the administration’s first 200 days, only two of 98 Senate-confirmed appointees to the most senior jobs in government were Black.

By Elisabeth Bumiller and Erica L. Green

Mr. Pearson, a member of the Tennessee General Assembly, was briefly expelled in 2023 after leading a gun control protest from the chamber floor.

By Emily Cochrane

Even President Trump has conceded that he and his party could face political pain from rising premiums, stiffening Democrats’ spines as they demand a subsidy extension.

By Catie Edmondson and Carl Hulse

Attorney General Pam Bondi sidestepped many questions from Democrats during a combative Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, often instead launching personal attacks on her questioners.

By Jamie Leventhal