Alec MacGillis

We Must Stop Inflating Our Elected Leaders

Eric Cantor's New Wall Street Job Isn't Paying Him What He's Really Worth

In America Today, a 9-Year-Old Girl Can't Play Alone in a Park But She Can Play With an Uzi

This One Congressional Race Epitomizes the GOP's Increasing Extremism

Libertarians Who Oppose a Militarized Police Should Support Gun Control—But They Don't, of Course

The Charges Against Rick Perry Are Thin. But They Are Also Clarifying.

This Is a Cop. In America.

Those War-Ready Cops in Ferguson Are 9/11's Awful Legacy—and Your Taxes Are Paying for It

Guess Where the Gangs Get Their Guns?

Scott Walker Is Desperate. He's Attacking His Democratic Challenger—From the Left.

McDonald's Workers Were Just Handed a Huge Victory by the Obama Administration

Obama Understands the Border Crisis Better Than Rick Perry. His Child-Migrant Plan Proves It.

America's Wild-West Gun Laws Are Helping Fuel the Border Crisis

Where Are Putin's American Admirers Now?

The Border Crisis Is Not "Obama's Katrina." Not Even Close.

Black Voters Saved Thad Cochran and the GOP Establishment. Here's What Republicans Owe Them In Return.

What Rush Limbaugh Got Wrong About My Scott Walker Cover Story

Scott Walker's Conservative Bubble Shielded Him. Now It Might Sink Him.

The Unelectable Whiteness of Scott Walker

A Guide to Scott Walker's Hyperpolarized Home Base