Instead of asking what’s the matter with Kansas, the question for 2025 and beyond is what’s the matter with Democrats.

At the Atlantic, Russell Burman details this reasoning in his new article “Maybe Democrats Didn’t Do So Badly After All ”: Now a clearer picture of the election has emerged, complicating the debate over whether Democrats need to reinvent themselves—and whether voters really abandoned them at all.

In Massachusetts, Democratic Gov. Maura Healey has taken a somewhat less confrontational attitude toward President-elect Donald Trump.

He pays lip service to cutting spending but he doesn't really care about it. He's told people he's not worried about a US debt crisis as he'll be out of office by then. And he's got stuff he wants to spend a lot of money on, like deporting millions of immigrants!

Uwashinze ibigo Amazon na Blue Origin ari mu bihangange vyashoye umutahe mw'ikoranabuhanga bamaze kuja i Mar-a-Lago.

Critics have highlighted what they see as the tech mogul's huge influence over Congress and the president-elect.

Elon Musk says comments of “President Musk” is part of a media conspiracy to “drive a wedge between” him and Donald Trump, but he hasn’t outright rejected his new moniker. Comments about Musk’s political influence rolled in after he went on a posting spree Wednesday to threaten GOP lawmakers with retribution if they didn’t reject a stopgap budget he felt had too wide of a scope.

Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) on Thursday suggested Elon Musk is the one directing the Trump administration, not President-elect Trump, pointing to the tech entrepreneur’s leading position in opposing the government funding stopgap measure.