The year 2025 was one in which new design takes, like the MAGA-McBling aesthetic and serifs as Republican purity card, shaped politics.

"Americans are hungry for candidates who reject the status quo while maintaining practical, results-oriented positions."

President Trump’s return to power dominated 2025. He began his second term with rapid moves aimed at shifting the nation’s political culture — and then just kept going. Trump’s approach cleaved the nation on visceral topics such as immigration.

The worry is that a national Depression might catch up to us, but the real problem lies with the national depression.

It's Thursday, and that means another drop of NPR's national security podcast. On this week's Sources & Methods, how extreme views on the far right are dividing Americans. Now, that is clearly a political story, but what does it have to do with national ...

Artificial intelligence is increasingly emerging as a key wedge issue — not between the major political parties, but within them. On the right, MAGA populists and influencers are warning about the potential hazards of unrestricted AI development as ...

As ESPN increasingly allows Stephen A. Smith to say just about whatever he wants within the arena of his burgeoning political commentary career, the network is putting its stick-to-sports directive for talent to the test. For years, ESPN staff were not ...

A brief conversation with a trained chatbot proved roughly four times as persuasive as a traditional political ad on television, one of the studies found. By Steven Lee Myers and Teddy Rosenbluth Chatbots can help you plan a vacation. They can check facts ...

It’s always tricky to understand the full context of quotes and sound bites used in political advertisements. But with the onslaught of artificial intelligence — when campaigns can make opponents appear to say words or make actions that never existed ...

One paradox of American politics is that voters are both extremely polarized about politics and extremely disdainful of political parties. A record share, 43 percent, self-identify as political independents. Most of these are not true swing voters, but ...