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

President Trump’s tariffs are scrambling the Republican plan for the economy, long centered on tax cuts and growth.

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Given the country’s extreme polarization, there is something to be said for giving voters a voice in judicial elections unconstrained by district lines in gerrymandered states.

The president’s comment was a rare instance in which he and House Speaker Mike Johnson were not on the same side of an issue.

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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.

Republicans would be wise to seize the moment while this failure is raw to remind Trump what a political loser his buddy is turning out to be.

The problem is that competence and execution matter.

Republicans may seem oblivious to voter discomfort with the administration’s excesses, but Elise Stefanik’s pulled nomination shows they see trouble ahead.

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.

And how universities can fight the president’s “destroying agenda.”

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

Feeling empowered is different from numerical growth.

The judiciary will never surrender to the president its constitutional role to interpret the Constitution.

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.

One was plenty.

Where all this goes is still up to us.

There are limits to governing by executive order.

How the federal government became “an outdated software system that must be replaced.”

The Democratic pollster David Shor walks through what voter data reveals about the 2024 election — and how the American electorate is shifting.

Elon Musk isn’t stopping at DOGE.

President Trump has offered a mix of reasons for upending global trade relations, baffling and angering America’s biggest trading partners.

Tuesday night’s address will be a remarkable return to a chamber that President Trump last addressed five years ago, before voters ousted him from office.

Why the new Trump administration will inexorably weaken the country’s economic security.