Matt Bennett

Newsom, a Democrat who has long opposed capital punishment, placed a moratorium on executions in 2019 and ordered the dismantling of California’s death row in 2022

For conservatives, Piker (35) is one of the most dangerous men in the country

Democratic and Republican voters have selected contenders for key races in the 3 November midterms that will decide the balance of power in Congress, and the future of both parties

There’s much more indispensable coverage to come of the personalities and policies that will shape both parties’ paths to recapture or maintain power in November and through 2028

DSA co-chair Megan Romer stumbled on Friday’s episode of The New Yorker Radio Hour podcast after editor David Remnick asked her to define what the group means by “taxing the hell out of millionaires.”

Four years ago the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) were in a funk

The primary results across five states on Tuesday were a snapshot of the mood of the American electorate three months before midterm elections that will decide which party controls Congress and key state governments

Just before the Fourth of July, Abdul El-Sayed, the son of Egyptian immigrants and a candidate for the U.S. Senate in Michigan, looked out at a few hundred people at a rally at a community college in Detroit and talked about the country’s momentous birthday

During an appearance on Fox News' "America's Newsroom," co-host Dana Perino asked Dingell whether Democrats mishandled allegations first raised by a former girlfriend of Platner

Dana Bash breaks down Graham Platner's 11-minute video dropping out of Maine's Senate race and blasting party leaders CNN

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., to challenge the Senate Democratic leader, after Democratic Socialists scored key victories in last week's primaries, The Hill reported

Left-wing Democrats unseated two incumbents and won another open House seat, with the support of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani

Democratic leaders are increasingly alarmed that they're facing their own version of the GOP's Tea Party rebellion 17 years ago — and that they can't stop it

The number of democratic socialists in the U.S. House of Representatives is set to more than double after the November midterms, a shift that would hand the movement its largest congressional bloc in American history

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) on Sunday laughed when told about a Democratic manifesto rejecting socialism backed by lawmakers in the House and instead defended his legislative agenda laid out by New York candidates aligned with his political view

In today’s edition, Adam Edelman explains why Wisconsin is set to serve as a major test of the extent of democratic socialists’ newfound clout

This time around, the Democratic Socialists of America knocked on more than 700,000 doors in a demonstration of the progressive group’s organizing prowess and appeal to ever more New Yorkers, suggesting a tectonic shift in the political landscape both in New York City and beyond

Now the political earthquake precipitated by Mamdani and sustained in three deep-blue House districts won by his allies underscores a heightened degree of political peril for one of the nation’s most powerful Democrats

Three far-left radicals backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani won their primary elections Tuesday night in a clean sweep by socialist and socialist-adjacent candidates

Primarily, Biden was speaking about the election victories of three Democratic socialist candidates backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani

The triumph of a democratic socialist in the D.C. mayoral race is the latest sign that younger urban voters are turbo-charging candidates who promise to go big on affordability and take on President Trump

Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville backed Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner (D) amid a scandal stemming from a bombshell New York Times report detailing Platner’s alleged troubled history with women

Yet when San Franciscans go to the polls Tuesday, they will be presented with a very different set of Democratic candidates — and who voters select will offer keen insights on the party and this city, perhaps the capital of American liberalism

Representative Nancy Pelosi was the first woman to hold the House speaker's gavel, the architect of the Affordable Care Act and two presidential impeachments, and, for nearly four decades, one of the most feared vote-counters in the history of American politics

Sun streams into the room, which is decorated with family photos and wooden Easter eggs painted pastel shades

Amid all the speculation about whether Harris will again run for president, her move is regarded here — in her new celebrity-laden enclave — not as a launching pad, but as a sign of retreat

Some top Democrats are quietly debating a fraught question: whether the party's best bet for winning back the presidency in 2028 is to nominate a man — perhaps a straight, white, Christian man

Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Planter was originally billed as a participant, but he pulled out of the event

The family-run Bushmeyer Farms in Illinois dates back more than 100 years, when his ancestors came to the US from Germany

Democrats are frothing at the mouth to center President Donald Trump’s tariff chaos in their affordability messaging as they charge into the midterms

For Democrats, it’s not just the tariff ruling that could open a new messaging avenue — it’s also President Donald Trump’s doubling down

If AIPAC has any regrets about pouring more than $2 million into opposing a candidate who calls himself pro-Israel — and ultimately lost to an anti-Israel opponent — it isn’t saying so

During a forum last month, Analilia Mejia was the only person running in the Democratic primary for New Jersey’s 11th District who raised her hand when asked if she agreed with human rights groups that say Israel has committed a genocide in Gaza, a charge the Israeli government rejects

Republicans have spent days casting the stunning arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro as the ultimate display of strength and power

Republicans have spent days casting the stunning arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro as the ultimate display of strength and power

Republicans have spent days casting the stunning arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro as the ultimate display of strength and power