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Kim Lane Scheppele is a professor of sociology at Princeton University and a fellow at the University of Pennsylvania law school. She has lived in...
The US presidential election appears on track to produce more than 160 million votes. It’s a social, regional, cultural, ideological cacophony...
If Donald Trump has had a unique insight into American society, it’s almost certainly his recognition that moral cowardice is a contagion easily...
Former President Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen reprised their buddy routine in Philadelphia on Monday. Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey brought...
Democracy’s prodigal daughters appeared together Wednesday night on a stage in politically potent Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. In a charming old...
Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters desperately wants the Bible — well, a bible — in state classrooms. As the Oklahoman...
The American Immigration Council, a pro-immigration think tank, issued a report last week estimating the costs — financial costs only — of...
Is the upcoming debate between Ohio Senator JD Vance and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz a “high-stakes” affair, as I have repeatedly seen it...
It has been a long night of terror for American pluralism and democracy. The Republican Party since 2016 has burrowed ever deeper into authoritarian...
“Orwell himself would have trouble topping the efforts of the Ohio Ballot Board.” So reads the first sentence of an amicus brief filed by...
“We cannot let the bad guys win,” Ohio Governor Mike DeWine said Monday. DeWine announced that he was sending 36 state police officers to patrol...
A large national survey released last week by PRRI, a nonpartisan, nonprofit polling organization, applied some sharp detail to the rise of...
Like any demagogue, Donald Trump employs different lies for different needs. But dishonesty is the core of his existence. The Republican Party has had...
In theory, school shootings are tragic. Indeed, after Wednesday’s mass shooting at Apalachee High School in Georgia — four murdered, nine injured...
It’s doubtful that any contemporary political faction has been betrayed by its host party more often, or more publicly, than the anti-abortion...
For millions of Americans who recognize Donald Trump for the human and political grotesque that he is, it has been a long wait for a “decency”...
Can a political party run on love? Something like that is going on at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this week. There has been much...
Democrats for Life of America met in Chicago Monday on the far, far periphery of the Democratic National Convention. In a small, windowless WeWork...
Since Tuesday, when Vice President Kamala Harris introduced Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate, Republicans have scaled back their...
A Department of Justice inspector general report released last week provided more evidence that former Attorney General William Barr was an eager...
Democrats have been on a roll in Pennsylvania, where Vice President Kamala Harris will appear Tuesday at a Philadelphia rally with her new vice...
Of all the dangers that Donald Trump both threatens and embodies, from seedy criminality to sprawling authoritarianism, perhaps no threat is more...
President Joe Biden delivered his after-action report to the nation tonight. His conclusion: Mission accomplished. In an Oval Office address that...
Kamala Harris visited her campaign headquarters on Monday and delivered a key message. Before becoming a US senator and then vice president, Harris...
Barring an unexpected turn of events in a season of unexpected turns of events, Vice President Kamala Harris will be the next Democratic nominee for...
Barack Obama looms large, but less. Since 2009, we have been engaged in a cosmic battle over whether the 21st century will belong to Obama’s...
It’s difficult for Americans who grew up on sunny images of Ronald Reagan to grasp the depth of the contemporary Republican Party’s antipathy...
We have entered the motive stage. What was the shooter thinking? Was he a radical driven by ideology? A mentally unhinged loner longing to impress a...
It’s wrong to view the Supreme Court’s ruling in the aptly titled Trump v. United States, its Constitution-torching invitation to authoritarian...
“We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be,” Heritage Foundation President...
What has changed since the presidential debate last Thursday? A lot and very little. We are mostly where we were two years ago. An old president, past...
A Bronx Democrat, a member of the much-hyped progressive “Squad” in Congress, faced a primary challenge from a monied White male moderate this...
New Jersey is delivering a kind of rolling TED talk on the cornucopia of political corruption that the Soprano State has to offer. The hits just keep...
Imagine a fictional Supreme Court, circa 1970, in which the court’s left-wing majority is sympathetic to the ways and means of violent leftist...
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and President Joe Biden made back-to-back defenses of democracy last week, but one of their rallying cries...
A new Pew Research Center poll on American cultural values portrays lots of predictable divisions between the two main camps of US politics — as...
In Pennsylvania, one of the paramount states of our mortal combat electoral system, voting by mail is legal. It’s also safe and readily administered...
Three years after he resigned in disgrace, Richard Nixon justified his crimes in office by declaring in an interview with David Frost, “It’s not a...
US Senator Dick Durbin held a hearing in Washington last week while Stormy Daniels was testifying in Manhattan about her relations with Donald...
Whether abortion is a potent enough issue to deliver the 2024 election to President Joe Biden in November is a complicated question. New polling data...
It’s only right that South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem’s evolving canine scandal should focus on Cricket, the 14-month-old wirehair pointer that...
Earlier this month, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appeared on Stephen Colbert’s television talk show and delivered an eloquent plea for US...
After Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders purchased a very high-priced lectern for her very poor state, the state legislature initiated an audit,...
In issuing a new rule to close the gun show loophole for firearm sales, the Biden administration isn’t just narrowing one of the easier paths by...
“I think what he’s doing is a mistake,” President Joe Biden said this week of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s mismanagement of the...
Donald Trump, a 77-year-old Bible salesman from Palm Beach, Florida, has emerged as the nation’s most prominent Christian leader. Trump is running...
Across a range of media this month you can read about President Joe Biden’s declining support among Black and Hispanic voters. A few data...
Last April, the Memphis City Council unanimously passed a law to curtail the number of driving infractions that would officially justify a police...
Representative Adam Schiff got what he paid for. As expected, the California Democrat won first place in the state’s top-two primary for the US...
Arizona Republicans produced legislation last week that would legalize shooting and killing trespassers on private land. Essentially, they took an...