President Donald Trump’s tumbling approval ratings are raising the odds that the 2026 midterm elections will extend one of the most powerful trends in 21st-century American politics.

The earliest days of American politics are somewhat lionized, mythologized through years of disconnection and remembered best ...

When, exactly, was America great? For as long as Donald Trump has touted the MAGA slogan, he has been cagey about the answer. But recent weeks have suggested a few possibilities. One is the Gilded Age ...

The Obama-Romney race in 2012 was the last in a familiar pattern in U.S. politics, which has since become defined by Donald Trump’s conservative populism. By Nate Cohn The 2012 Obama-Romney race was ...

The pendulum will swing back. It is a phrase invoked repeatedly, with variation, since Donald Trump’s reelection last November. Cable news anchor Chris Cuomo, Senator Angus King, and pollster Nate ...

Both Democrat and Republicans agree we’re in an important moment in American politics, according to a new poll released Monday. Three-fourths of Democrats and 61% of Republicans say this moment in ...

Following two recent interviews with two very different authors, I was offered an unexpectedly similar prescription for America’s political exhaustion. Keep in mind, their audiences and ideologies ...

One paradox of American politics is that voters are both extremely polarized about politics and extremely disdainful of political parties. A record share, 43 percent, self-identify as political ...