Ed Burmila

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Richard Beck’s “Homeland” traces the far-reaching aftereffects of the attacks and tries to recover the events of the day, as they happened.

From praise for Hitler and Mussolini to friendships with Putin and Orbán, open adoration for authoritarians is a defining feature of the American right.

Has the social justice left really derailed the party’s electoral fortunes?

The battle for power and influence in the nation’s capital is more shameless, desperate, and embarrassing than ever.

The current political order may have proven a failure. But neither party has presented an alternative yet.

The Clinton-era avatar of respectable Democratic politics continues to confuse elite opinion with public sentiment.

Voters can have a little certainty about what the party stands for, as a treat.

Some of America's biggest companies are middlemen who profit from the system's wastefulness.

The American right's unyielding ardor for federal power

If Trump wanted to give himself sweeping new powers, could anyone stop him?