Matt Ford

@fordm

There’s no sugarcoating it: Republicans are going to make the court even more conservative. But Americans can limit the damage in November.

He claims to be just a public servant, while wantonly disregarding the rule of law—and it’s imperiling the election.

The allegations of forced hysterectomies of detainees don’t just demand an investigation, but a new law to empower politicians to act themselves."

If you’re worrying that Democrats wouldn’t concede a Biden defeat, you’re just concern-trolling while American democracy wobbles.

The nightmare wildfires consuming California and Oregon have been greeted by the president’s treacherous silence.

The world’s greatest deliberative body has seen better days, but the Nebraska senator’s solutions will only continue its downward spiral.

His latest Supreme Court shortlist includes Senate allies Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton, and seems designed to goad Biden into a response.

Take a cue from Mississippi and retire that abomination atop your capitol building.

The president’s reelection campaign is now an obsessive exercise in psychological projection.

In the end, it was always going to be about blood and soil and gun-toting vigilantes.

The Republican National Convention is a testament to the president’s effort to permanently recast the executive branch in his own warped image.

The Gettysburg gambit is just his latest attempt to appropriate American history and symbology and pervert it to suit his ends.

The state has long had the gun rights group in their crosshairs, but there’s a Trumpian edge to their plan to bring them down.

Some politicos are fretting about post-election chaos. What about the pre-election chaos that Trump and his allies are creating right now?

While the pain of legislative dysfunction has never been more keenly felt, reforms that all sides agree upon are still possible.

The president’s call for a delayed election points to his own deep-seated insecurities, not the imminent collapse of our electoral democracy.

In lieu of oversight, Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee pepper Trump’s bag man with canned questions and grandstanding.

The president’s latest reelection strategy is to darkly warn voters about the chaos he created.

The conservative legal scholar’s first brush with a Republican presidency led to tragedy. His second encounter leans toward farce.

The right's high-profile defeats at the Supreme Court in the past month aren't the product of liberal justices but the result of obvious tactical errors.