The late AFL-CIO president’s breathtaking Obama speech in 2008 was just one of countless times when he spoke a courageous truth.

Spencer Ackerman’s new book argues that the forever wars created the conditions for Trump’s rise.

We can debate its economic harm, but its political damage to progressive governance is indisputable.

Biden says he wants to restore faith in the U.S. government, but he’s slow-footing the reforms that would end the destructive crackdown practices of his predecessors.

The big publishing houses routinely push out political books that are less than truthful, but the former president’s lies seem to be a bridge too far.

The previous two administrations’ dogged pursuit of reporters’ records demands immediate reform.

District attorneys in San Francisco and Philadelphia promised to overturn decades of tough-on-crime policies. Now, as violent crime rises, they may be kicked out of office.

The failed former Chicago mayor will be shipped off to serve as the U.S. ambassador to Japan, for some reason.

Our inability to truly conspire is why so many people are struggling today.

An in-depth interview with the Democratic senator about Supreme Court reform, Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley’s culpability in the Capitol riot, and the importance of investigating the previous administration

The latest bad-faith attacks on Biden’s climate envoy show that the GOP is determined to find the next #Benghazi.

The attorney general has initiated a larger probe of Derek Chauvin’s colleagues, but there’s no quick fix for a broken system.

The former vice president told the hard truth to the American people. No Democrat has dared do so since.

Jonathan Cohn’s new book shows how narrowly health care reform passed—and how far we are from universal coverage.

Party leaders like Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer say they won’t repeat the missteps of Barack Obama’s first term. They haven’t proved it quite yet.

The administration has promised to revise the post-9/11 legal basis for permanent war. It’s not enough.

I wanted to like “Renegades” on Spotify. What went wrong?

Biden’s airstrike in Syria shows how little is going to change about America’s military entanglements in the Middle East.

Biden has an opportunity to break the cycle of deadly border militarization embraced by his predecessors of both parties. Will he take it?

It worked against Obama. But GOP attacks on the Democrats’ Covid stimulus bill are falling on deaf ears after four years of Trump.