Matt Ford

@fordm

Standing athwart history, sighing "Whatever."

"Civil war" rhetoric is not uncommon on the fringes of American political discourse. Now it’s also coming from the White House.

It takes a special kind of attorney general to make Jeff Sessions seem scrupulous.

The president and his allies' case for acquittal would get laughed out of court.

While Donald Trump talks about patriotism, others act on it.

There's too much at stake for Democrats to take half-steps.

Nancy Pelosi wants to be seen pushing for the president's moment of reckoning while ensuring it never arrives.

What would it sound like if someone proposed the Electoral College for the first time today?

From the scorched earth of last summer's confirmation battle, nothing good can bloom.

It's a notion that's caught on with the wider public, but it does nothing to help us understand or confront violence.

Their radically different approaches to the filibuster prove that the two candidates are different sorts of radicals.

Some leftist thinkers are too pessimistic about the fate of liberal values in the age of Trump.

It's the president's biggest business acquisition yet.

A judge has finally questioned the FBI's terrorism watch list. But so much else that followed the attacks is now an accepted part of American life.

The right-wing commentariat keeps warning America that if lawmakers intercede, gun owners will have no choice but to kill cops.

Donald Trump and Boris Johnson rely on weaknesses in the system to enact promises which aren't popular.

Two states are asking the justices to retain a rule from America's racist past for the sake of convenience.

The president wants to use the accumulated wealth of the G-7 to prop up his failing Miami resort.

The union between the federal judiciary's true believers in the primacy of our founding documents is fraying.

The corruption and incompetence of this administration has led to a grotesque theft of Americans’ precious time and energy.