Donald Trump’s Plan to Subvert the Midterms Is Already Under Way
Our election system is reaching a breaking point.
Our election system is reaching a breaking point.
David A. Graham, Will Gottsegen, Tom Nichols, and colleagues guide you through today’s biggest news, ideas, and cultural happenings.
Voters’ worries about inflation and gas prices have seemed to dominate the midterms—but late polling shows another issue vaulting to the top of their list of concerns.

President Trump and his allies are ending the campaign with naked but nonsensical appeals to anti-Muslim bigotry.

Cash can’t necessarily solve the challenges that Republican candidates face.

The Republican candidate for governor of Ohio has drawn condemnation from the right and the left for casually dismissing his opponent’s account of being raped as a child.

The president’s reaction to mass protests in France tells us more about his mentality and domestic politics than it does about French society.

The case of Christa Pike, who survived two lethal injections last month, gives new relevance to strange stories across history.

The president proclaims unfettered power to go after his critics, but then disclaims any involvement once a prominent critic is actually the subject of a search.

People around the president are using their roles to cash in. They learned it by watching him.

The former president has sparred with his party’s left flank since leaving office, but he’s also been faster than some of his peers to embrace progressive candidates.

The wave of voter anger that swept the globe in 2024 is still rolling.
