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In a final gust of truth before MAGA extends its fog of propaganda over Washington, the US Department of Justice this month issued a report on the...
President Jimmy Carter’s life mapped the American Century. His funeral Thursday at the National Cathedral in Washington suggests that century, like...
The construction of the MAGA counternarrative about Jan. 6 has been something of an iterative process. The latest version, which exists alongside...
In 2006, Jimmy Carter published a controversial and best-selling book on Palestine with the word “apartheid” in the title. Then he went on a...
While Republicans have long complained about the academy, Donald Trump, JD Vance and their MAGA followers appear determined to do something about...
President-elect Donald Trump received more than 77 million votes after having been held liable by a jury for sexual abuse in a civil case. (His...
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...
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...
“Orwell himself would have trouble topping the efforts of the Ohio Ballot Board.” So reads the first sentence of an amicus brief filed by election...
“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...
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...
Barring an unexpected turn of events in a season of unexpected turns of events, Vice President Kamala Harris will be the next Democratic nominee...