Osita Nwanevu

@OsitaNwanevu

Alex Garland’s film is a fascinatingly empty meditation on journalism and our political divides.

While not without some sour notes, the president’s State of the Union was sufficiently vigorous, surprisingly unconventional, and impressively partisan.

Tom Wolfe was no radical.

Conservatives are fomenting hysteria over free speech and antisemitism at colleges to smother attention to the Palestinians’ plight.

The demonstrations of the last decade were vast and explosive—and surprisingly ineffective.

The battles to come between 2024’s many also-rans may not yield a presidential nominee, but they could determine the GOP’s future.

Weeks after the midterm elections delivered a putative referendum on the former president and his future, barely anything has changed.

How movies about the political system fell in love with cynicism and messaging

Legislative battles are fronts in a larger—and winnable—ideological war.

A proposal to reform House elections and give more power to the people is gaining traction with activists. Now they just have to convince the electorate to fight for it.

Democratic lawmakers have swung behind a deranged plan to kick kids out of the U.S. that mirrors the Trump-era policies they previously decried.

Proponents of “popularism” believe they have a plan to rescue the party’s electoral hopes, but they may have arrived too late.

Bipartisanship might not be dead. But it is on life support. And it’s long past time we pulled the plug.

We ascribe too much meaning to the early years of the republic.

Everything you think you know about how our democracy functions is about to change.

Beltway pundits, finally wise to the fact that the president’s agenda faces long odds, have decided that the narrative needs to be changed.

Recent violence and shifts in public opinion have created an opportunity for advocates to push President Biden on a policy that’s been fixed in amber.

The White House’s quiet campaign to tweak the D.C. Admission Act also provides the first hint that the president is open to reforming the Electoral College.

With its razor-thin margins in Congress and an aging caucus, why isn’t the party acting with more urgency to protect voting rights from Republican assault?

If we lose the fight to protect voting rights, we'll lose everything else, too.