Politics: 5 stories from this week | New York Times

March 22, 2025

Here are some stories you might have missed this week, curated by Times editors and personalized for you.

John Rous/Associated Press Were the Kennedy Files a Bust? Not So Fast, Historians Say. The thousands of documents posted online this week disappointed assassination buffs. But historians are finding many newly revealed secrets. By Jennifer Schuessler and Julian E. Barnes

Al Drago for The New York Times With Orders, Investigations and Innuendo, Trump and G.O.P. Aim to Cripple the Left The president and his allies in Congress are targeting the financial, digital and legal machinery that powers the Democratic Party and much of the progressive political world. By Kenneth P. Vogel and Shane Goldmacher

Tim Walz Attacks Musk With Language From the Trump Playbook The Minnesota governor derided Elon Musk, a naturalized United States citizen, as a “South African nepo baby.” By Jess Bidgood

Doug Mills/The New York Times Elon Musk Returns to His Trump Playbook in a Big Wisconsin Race The billionaire, now a White House official and no longer a private citizen, is spending millions of dollars to elect a conservative judge, and making himself a main character in the race. By Theodore Schleifer

Kim Raff for The New York Times Warned Off Meeting Voters, Republicans Who Do Confront Anger and Unease In a deeply conservative district and a more liberal one, two Republicans found uncertainty and anxiety about the Trump administration’s agenda and their support of it. By Robert Jimison and