What Is ‘Dark Woke’?

What Is ‘Dark Woke’?

There was a time last summer when the Democratic Party was cool. Kamala Harris had just stepped in as the Democratic Party’s nominee for president in the waning days of Brat summer. She went on the popular podcast “Call Her Daddy.” Tim Walz’s outdoorsy drip led to a Chappell Roan-inspired …

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Hong Kong’s Democratic Party, Once a Formidable Force, to Disband

Hong Kong’s Democratic Party, Once a Formidable Force, to Disband

The Democratic Party in Hong Kong was for decades the city’s largest opposition party. It led protests demanding universal suffrage. Its lawmakers sparred with officials in the legislature about China’s encroachment on the region. It was born in the 1990s of an audacious hope: that opposition politicians and activists could …

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Trump Fires Democrats on Federal Trade Commission

Trump Fires Democrats on Federal Trade Commission

President Trump fired the two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday, a rejection of the corporate regulator’s traditional independence that may clear the way for the administration’s agenda. The White House told the Democrats, Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya, that the president was terminating their roles, …

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MeidasTouch Pops on Podcast Charts as Progressives Search for Answers

MeidasTouch Pops on Podcast Charts as Progressives Search for Answers

Soon after the recent contentious Oval Office meeting between President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, Senator Adam Schiff went on camera to offer his assessment. “I was horrified and sickened,” Mr. Schiff, a California Democrat, said. “This is Donald Trump caring about nothing of American values,” he later …

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Trump Tariffs Threaten to Upend Global Economic Order

Trump Tariffs Threaten to Upend Global Economic Order

President Trump’s move this weekend to slap sweeping tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China is threatening to fracture the global trading system and a world economic order that once revolved around a U.S. economy that prized open investment and free markets. The speed and scope of the import duties that …

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Federal Debt Is Now Worrying Even Progressives

Federal Debt Is Now Worrying Even Progressives

The 119th Congress began, as it so often has in recent years, with calls from Republican politicians for wrestling down the national debt, which is near a record level relative to the size of the economy. But this time, the G.O.P. had company: Progressive economists and budget wonks, who have …

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