Sheriff Dale Wagner of Adams County sees his department as David fighting Goliath. But he has the support of some of President Trump’s most influential allies.

With inauguration donations and Mar-a-Lago visits, leaders of the biggest tech companies sought favor with the president in an attempt to steer regulation and tariffs, to little avail.

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The billionaire’s gun control group plans to spend $10 million to help elect Democratic attorneys general, who are on the front lines of legal clashes with the president.

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Trump didn’t just defy the assumption that his demonization of immigrants would cost him Hispanic voters; he turned those expectations upside down.

Will President Trump’s tariffs go down as one of the 100 worst decisions in presidential history? 50? 10?

Will President Trump’s tariffs go down as one of the 100 worst decisions in presidential history? 50? 10?

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Readers debate what the party must do to compete with Republicans in the coming elections.

From tariffs to ballots, he makes up his own rules.

Asking what voters think of a president’s performance is important, but so is gauging how they feel.

Responses to the mass firings in the federal government. Also: Cory Booker’s speech; talk of a third Trump term; Republicans and Ukraine; a letter to Canada.

Members of Trump’s coterie are obsessed with ancient Rome and its collapse. But their interpretation of Roman history is based on common misconceptions.

What Democrats need to do now will not be very easily done.

Here’s what I learned about Trump’s second term by reading his first 100 executive orders.

The problem is that competence and execution matter.

Michelle Cottle and Ben Rhodes on what Democrats misunderstand about authenticity.

The New York progressive believes economic populism is the path forward for Democrats. Can she unite her party around that?

Party leaders have embraced convenient excuses. This perilous political moment requires more self-reflection and honesty.

Alex Edelman HBO’s comedy special about white nationalism hits different now.

Why has fighting and opposing Trump proved so hard? It’s not just because Republicans hold all the cards in government.

Ezra Klein answers listener questions about the first two months of the second Trump term and the options Democrats and civil society have in response.

The president thinks popular political opposition to his policies is manufactured.

Feeling empowered is different from numerical growth.

This is certainly an administration that reminds us why the framers decided on separation of powers.

Struggling working-class voters fear that the country they’ve always counted on is sliding away because of Trump.

Understanding the president’s shift from unconstitutional to anti-constitutional actions.

Harold Hamm, Trump’s energy mentor, wants to take us back to the 1990s.

More registered voters think America is on the right track than at any point since 2004, a new poll says. What does that mean about Trump?

The Democratic Party can’t stop America’s spiral into autocracy and oligarchy unless it casts off its stale talking points and reimagines what it stands for.

Nearly 60 days in, the president is failing to engage in long-term thinking.