Matt Ford

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Having failed in its first effort to subvert democracy, the Trump administration has found subtler means to achieve its end.

Arizona Senator Martha McSally wants to try people like the El Paso gunman as terrorists, but her proposal ripens the possibility of prosecutorial abuse.

Guns rights advocates want more than just a victory. They want this newly emboldened conservative court to wield maximal power.

He thinks "The Hunt" is racist. Elijah Cummings, too. That tells us a lot about the president's sinister worldview.

What the "30-50 feral hogs" meme reveals about Americans' twisted view of our relationship with wildlife.

California wants to require him to release his tax returns in order to appear on the 2020 ballot. His legal team has a convincing counterargument.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is the biggest impediment to reducing mass death in America.

The silent treatment has its merits. When it comes to white-nationalist violence, it also has its limits.

Trump is turning the Republican Party even whiter and more male than before, with profound consequences for party and country alike.

There's a gerrymandering problem that Democrats aren't talking about.

Biden seems to believe that everything in America was rosy until Trump took office, and he's offering himself as a time machine.

Warren and Sanders easily countered attacks from desperate moderates at Tuesday's debate and delivered compelling visions for America.

The president's slurs and his administration's policies are an attack on U.S. democracy itself—all in a desperate bid to cling to power.

Attorney General Bill Barr announced that the government will put five prisoners to death in six months, ending a 16-year hiatus.

Beltway pundits treated his testimony as disappointing entertainment rather than a damning portrait of a rogue president.

He and several other candidates have issued plans that appear ambitious only because America's system is so broken.

The Democrats have largely flopped in questioning witnesses on Capitol Hill. The former special counsel's testimony is a chance to rectify that.

Why did the senator switch from anti-Trump to the president's biggest supporter in Congress? Perhaps it's not a mystery after all.

The state's response to a lawsuit by four black voters shows the wide ramifications of the Supreme Court's recent gerrymandering ruling.

The late justice dismantled originalism in his dissent in District of Columbia v. Heller, the landmark gun-rights case.