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When she came forward as the Democratic Party's presumptive presidential nominee this summer, Kamala Harris offered what has become a standard tribute to the man who had anointed her. 'Joe [...]

Suppose, in the immediate aftermath of January 6, 2021, you predicted the following events: Disgraced coup plotter Donald Trump would evade impeachment and then prison. He would not only regain [...]

UNIVERSITY BOARDS CLAIM TO CARE ABOUT DIVERSITY ON CAMPUS, BUT THEY SELDOM REVEAL HOW DIVERSE THEY ARE. WE DISCLOSED THE NUMBERS FOR THEM. American colleges and universities care deeply--or at [...]

REPUBLICANS HAVE begun saying things about American schools that not long ago would have struck them as peculiar, even insane. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida has called schools 'a cesspool [...]

ONE OF THE few advantages Joe Biden's campaign possessed at the outset of the year was money. The president had built a fundraising base as an incumbent, and many wealthy [...]

In mid-September, I attended the National Conservatism Conference in Miami, where Republican politicians, right-wing thought leaders, and various party apparatchiks had gathered to articulate their vision of the conservative movement's [...]

AT A RECENT RALLY in Ohio, Donald Trump stood at formal attention while an announcer instructed the crowd, 'Ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the horribly and unfairly treated January [...]

IN 2017, A REPUBLICAN-CONTROLLED Congress passed a package of sanctions on Russia in retaliation for its interference in the previous year's election. The bill was approved by overwhelming margins: 419-3 [...]

FOR THE PAST TWO DECADES, young people were widely assumed to have an ironclad loyalty to the Democratic Party. Democrats believed this, as did Republicans and journalists. So deeply ingrained [...]

IN LATE FEBRUARY, as daily deaths from COVID-19 tallied in the thousands across the country, Florida governor Ron DeSantis announced his latest effort to dismantle his state's response to the [...]

THE RISE OF NIKKI HALEY has energized the kind of Republicans who at one time thrilled to the sight of Jeb Bush and had begun to despair that they would [...]

If his approval rating sinks too far below 50 percent, it becomes more likely than not that the next election will reinstall into power his exiled predecessor, who has never [...]

THE SCANDAL ISN'T what's illegal, Michael Kinsley once wrote; the scandal is what's legal. The point of the aphorism is that, in American politics, the worst abuses by powerful people [...]

The republican party has been in desperate need of a pragmatic leader who can gauge public opinion, shrewdly husband political capital, and advance the party's agenda in sustainable ways. That [...]

I The End of an Error The one-term reign of the man who never should've won. DONALD TRUMP DESTROYED many things in his single term as president. The quickest one [...]

IN MAY 2017, Donald Trump fired FBI director James Comey, crashing through the first of many important democratic norms. While FBI directors technically can be fired, they generally serve ten-year [...]

For the Republic to survive Trump's presidency, he must be tried for his crimes. Even if that sparks a constitutional crisis of its own. IN THE END, THE MOST SALIENT [...]

Last October, the Nuclear Threat Initiative and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security compiled a ranking system to assess the preparedness of 195 countries for the next global pandemic. [...]

IN MARCH, AS DONALD TRUMP put out word that he was about to be arrested--by a 'SOROS BACKED ANIMAL' for 'A CRIME THAT DOESN'T EXIST'--Florida governor Ron DeSantis floated a [...]

The Biden presidency is over now. Or, at least, since Democrats lost control of the House of Representatives, its legislative-accomplishments phase is. If we go by either modern history or [...]

ONE OF THE CURIOUS things about the recent revolt by far-right House Republicans is that it was led by some of the party's Trumpiest figures, yet they were essentially insisting [...]

During the first hundred days of Joe Biden's presidency, it has dawned on Republicans that the man their standard-bearer once mocked as 'Sleepy Joe' is a formidable adversary. And the [...]

IN HIS ADDRESS to the Democratic National Convention in August, Barack Obama warned that the Trump administration 'has shown it will tear our democracy down if that's what it takes [...]

On September 3, Cynthia Hughes, founder of the Patriot Freedom project, regaled the crowd at Donald Trump's 'Save America' rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, with the plight of her nephew, Tim [...]

A month ago, Joe Biden's presidency was on the brink of failure. His legislative agenda was moribund, the economy was teetering on the precipice of recession, and Democrats were speculating [...]

THE JANUARY 6 HEARINGS are about the events of a single day, but they implicate a much broader phenomenon: the Republican Party's faltering commitment to democracy. The mob attack on [...]

IT'S BEEN seven or eight years since a wave of illiberal norms around the discussion of race and gender began to hit an expanding array of progressive institutions. The name [...]

The extent of the president's corruption has taken even cynics by surprise. And--more than Russia--it's his greatest political liability. 'My whole life I've been greedy, greedy, greedy, DECLARED DONALD TRUMP [...]

January 6, 2021, may be the most contentious date in American history. To Democrats and the surviving remnant of anti-Trump Republicans, the event was a spasm of right-wing political violence [...]

HISTORY BOOKS WILL record Donald Trump as the first president of the United States to assume office without any previous experience in government. This is not a mere biographical detail [...]

WHAT IF TRUMP FAILS to win the Electoral College in 2020? Would he refuse to accept the results of an election? The first thing to remember is that he already [...]

OVER THE PAST FIVE YEARS, the Democratic Party has seemed to race leftward so fast that its recent standard-bearers are considered no longer qualified to lead it. Bill Clinton? An [...]

WHEN HE TOOK OFFICE IN 2001, George W. Bush inherited a healthy Republican Party roughly at parity with its opposition. When he left office eight years later, Bush had degraded [...]

LONGER VIEW A Video Game, With Sex BY MAUREEN O'CONNOR ONCE UPON A TIME, a willingness to look for love online was considered a sign of insanity or desperation. Now? [...]

ALL PRESIDENCIES ARE historic. But no president since at least LBJ, and probably FDR, has arrived in Washington at a moment of greater historic urgency than Barack Obama. The man [...]

DEEP STATE Trump, the FBI, and the Rule of Law By James B. Stewart During the 2016 presidential election, one of the two major candidates labored under the shadow of [...]

Over the summer, Joe Biden threw his presidency behind a $3.5 trillion social-policy bill that would address everything from climate change to health care to child care. One strategy Biden [...]

In the middle of august, as the Delta variant began driving coronavirus caseloads back to levels Americans believed they would never see again, Missouri senator Josh Hawley introduced an amendment [...]

AFTER LOSING TO the Democrats in 2020, Republicans are working feverishly to win their next battle. Their efforts include no revision of their platform or message. Instead, the plan consists [...]

THE FIRST THREE NIGHTS of the Republican convention turned in a halfhearted and largely unsuccessful effort to draw Donald Trump closer to the party he conquered. The final night was [...]

As Joe Biden took office, the Republican Party had no specific plan to discredit the genial and popular new president, but it did have one clean line of attack: Biden [...]

Full Employment Now! The most exciting idea in American politics is (maybe) possible again. IN 1993, BILL CLINTON, young and full of hope, aspired to prod the still sluggish economic [...]