Democratic Party

Mamdani tapped into people’s desperation for change but now has to convince the business class he is more than a charismatic novice

City’s rising star and mayore-elect may reflect a shifting mood among the electorate

The promise is simple: a city worth living in, that everyone can afford to live in

In Virginia, New Jersey and beyond, Democratic voters powered their candidates to victory and sent a warning sign to Donald Trump

Democratic Socialist (34) achieves ‘one of the great US political upsets’, as Democrats post governor wins in New Jersey and Virginia

Hundreds of votes will take place a year into Trump’s second term with both chambers of US Congress up for grabs

Former vice-president dismisses placing her as an outsider to win a place on Democratic White House ticket for 2028

Worldview: The US president has been rapidly intensifying domestic military operations during his second term

She stood her then husband Ted Kennedy, most notably over the fatal car crash at Chappaquiddick in 1969

Bondi cast her responses as a defence of the Trump administration

Democrats’ refusal to pass funding Bill sees Republicans threaten mass federal lay-offs

Senate rejects short-term spending measure, deepening partisan divide

An estimated 750,000 federal workers will be furloughed without pay, as Republicans and Democrats blame each other

Office closures could delay flights and send thousands of workers home

Walking along Fifth Avenue: the UN really messes with moody New Yorkers’ already volatile heads

Move comes two months after CBS announced it was cancelling The Late Show With Stephen Colbert

Former business and Northern Ireland secretary faces questions over friendship with late disgraced financier

Former vice-president accuses his White House aides of helping fuel negative narratives and failing to defend her against right-wing attacks

US president had denied writing a letter for a 50th birthday book

Combative California governor apes Trump to beat Trump

Move aims to flip five Democratic-held house seats to Republican control in next year’s midterms

Evan Osnos shows how social media is at the core of Republicans’ drive to destroy human empathy with maximum misinformation and minimum civil discourse

I find myself packing pepper spray again

DC mayor strikes conciliatory note but other Democratic leaders warn president against expanding law-and-order power grab

Decision to dispatch National Guard welcomed by supporters; others suspect operation is attempt to deflect questions about Epstein

State governor calls for arrests after exodus of Democratic lawmakers seeks to block Republican Bill that would redraw electoral districts

Once an advocate of US soft power, the secretary of state is implementing Maga values from isolationism to impatience with foreign aid

The passage of the Bill leads to massive, ugly tax cuts for American aristocrats

Frances Ballantyne, an Irish-American who was 94 when we became friends in New York, rubbed shoulders with Kathy Bates, James Baldwin and local wiseguys, but these were mere side notes in a rich life

Critics on the left and the right have taken issue with the effects the Bill will have on the US’s already considerable national debt

He managed to motivate tens of thousands of canvassers to knock on more than a million doors

The United States’ official puritanism sits uneasily with a wider nation that can be more creatively profane than any other in the Anglosphere

Politicians like Holly Cairns or Keir Starmer could meet the threat of the populist right with a lighter tone and a joke or two

Socialist candidate (33) upsets Andrew Cuomo with clever campaign promising rent control

Socialist challenger has come from nowhere to rival Andrew Cuomo in New York’s mayoral race

The former opponent of forever wars in the Middle East is debating dropping bombs there without military provocation against the US

Vance Luther Boelter (57) identified as suspect who allegedly killed Democrat and her husband

Authorities are searching for an assailant who officials say was impersonating a police officer and shot at officers

California senator handcuffed after attempting to ask Kristi Noem a question

I find it hard to understand how public opinion in America is not revolted by events such as the $200 million ‘gift’ of a jumbo jet that will become the president’s private property