Katie Glueck

Democratic voters are in a combative, anti-establishment mood, unhappy with their party and disagreeing about its best path forward, a New York Times/Siena poll found.

Democrats are pinning their hopes of flipping the Senate on Graham Platner, who has made his working-class persona key to his campaign. His background defies easy categorization.

Asked if he was motivated by Americans’ financial woes to make a deal to end the war with Iran, he responded, “Not even a little bit.”

The Republican senator from Maine, running for re-election at age 73 in one of this year’s top Senate races, made the disclosure after mounting online scrutiny on the left.

The exit of Gov. Janet Mills kicked off the general election early in what is likely to be one of the most important, expensive and combative Senate races of 2026.

Her withdrawal paves the way for Graham Platner to challenge Senator Susan Collins, and reflects the energy of the Democratic Party’s left as well as voters’ unease with older candidates.

Republicans are likely to fall back on a tried-and-tested strategy for the midterms: Going negative.

Attention now turns to Florida, and the Supreme Court.

It’s Tax Day, but much of the country’s focus has been on an unpopular war.

For Democrats, the drama is reverberating well beyond the state.

At a gathering in New York, potential candidates made overtures to a vital Democratic constituency.

Here’s a crash course on what’s coming up next.

Gov. Janet Mills argues that her rival for Senate, Graham Platner, could be doomed by his history of offensive online remarks. But at a time of anti-establishment anger, Mr. Platner says he is the ...

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Third Way, the moderate Democratic advocacy group and think tank, has an expansive and expensive plan to shape the 2028 presidential campaign.

While most Democrats have opposed his decision, their responses reveal differences over Middle East policy and national security that loom over the party’s future.