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The dark worldview of Trump's choice for vice president, explained.
“Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people.”
Trump’s “populist” running mate won’t change his party’s class allegiances.
The bestseller proves Trump’s VP pick has abiding disdain for absolutely everyone.
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The Trump assassination attempt and many other public crimes in America are committed by isolated young men.
Silicon Valley isn’t right-wing, but its Trump supporters are getting louder.
The “reactionary spirit” and the roots of the US authoritarian moment.
The GOP is still pretending that crime is spiraling out of control.
The Republican National Convention featured plenty of angry rhetoric about immigration. It might find a receptive audience.
The attack has fueled intense scrutiny of the agency tasked with protecting him.
An upcoming virtual roll call is deepening Democrats’ fight over Biden’s spot on the ticket.
While we can’t always predict public political violence, Vox spoke to four experts who can help us understand it.
The party doesn’t need to accept defeat. It just needs to reject Joe Biden.
Republicans have been essential to gun safety legislation before. They could do it again.
The convention showcases Trumpian instincts — but few policies to back them up. Project 2025 fills the gap.
“It’s his brand now.”
The classified documents case against Trump hits another major setback before the 2024 election.
Democratic defections have slowed, but Biden isn’t out of the woods yet.
The shooting wasn’t staged, but conspiratorial thinking has become widespread in our paranoid age.
The attempt on Donald Trump is the latest in a wave of political violence.
Political leaders should try to douse the flames. The right’s leaders are fanning them.
In 1981, Ronald Reagan was shot by John Hinckley Jr. and, like Trump, survived.
This is what happened at the Butler rally, as we understand it right now.
The attempt on his life shouldn’t cow his critics.
Two theories on the political impact of the Trump assassination attempt.
The attempt on Donald Trump’s life has put the republic in peril.
Harris would be a strong nominee. She also has to overcome some challenges.
The sweeping conservative plan for Trump's second term is very real. Here’s what it actually says.
At his press conference, the president proved he can sometimes speak coherently. That’s not good enough.
A recent poll suggests a reversal in a decades-long trend of the public warming to immigrants. What’s causing the shift?
This week’s NATO summit was already dominated by election anxiety. Biden’s shaky performance didn’t help.
Prediction markets have closely tracked Biden’s fate, but they have a long way to go as reliable indicators.
The presser went fine. But the Democratic defections continued.
Why speculation over the president’s health refuses to die down.
Elite clerics still hold ultimate power.
The intellectual Pratap Bhanu Mehta explains how liberalism grew out of 3,000 years of Indian history.
Harris flopped in 2020, but a lot has changed in four years.
No, "history" does not tell us that the Democrats shouldn't change their nominee
Biden says the primary voters picked him. Is there more to democracy than that?
France held back the far right. No one knows what’s next.
The European elections tell us little about Biden’s chances — but a lot about his choices.
The justices are awful at their jobs, and they don’t know that they are awful at their jobs.