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‘I Think That MAGA Is Dying:’ Inside the Youth Movement at CPAC

At a sparsely attended Conservative Political Action Conference, young Republicans were eager to start the post-Trump era.

© Desiree Rios for The New York Times

The annual Conservative Political Action Conference has been gradually waning in energy for years, but empty convention halls and an anemic speakers list gave many young people in attendance a doomed feeling.

‘The Doppelganger Is at the Wheel’

Naomi Klein’s book “Doppelganger” is a journey into the world of MAGA and right-wing conspiracies. But it’s also a look at how the left’s political culture sits in relation to this mirror world. On “The Ezra Klein Show,” the writer talks to the Times Opinion columnist Ezra Klein about how the use of the “mute button” on social media has spilled offline as well, creating political communities that are isolated from one another.
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