The president is acting as if the midterms no longer matter.

The president doesn’t seem that concerned that his party could lose control of Congress. Ezra Klein and the Republican strategist Liam Donovan discuss Trump’s midterm strategy and Democratic paths to victory.

The president doesn’t seem that concerned that his party could lose control of Congress. Ezra Klein and the Republican strategist Liam Donovan discuss Trump’s midterm strategy and Democratic paths to victory.

Readers discuss Senator John Cornyn’s loss to Ken Paxton in Tuesday’s Republican primary. Also: Investigating E. Jean Carroll; Mets and Knicks; religion and A.I.

The Senate race in Texas will come down to the Democratic candidate’s strengths and the Republican’s weaknesses.

An obsession with the most doomer prospects of A.I. is blinding progressives from thinking about serious, realistic policies.

Why 2026 might tell us a lot about 2028.

First on Democrats’ to-do list must be banning gerrymandering, restoring voting rights protections and reforming the Supreme Court.

The country seems to be tiring of the Trump era. Now what?

Readers say David French’s critique of the likely Democratic candidate for the Senate in Maine was too harsh.

Measuring America’s democratic erosion.