The coronavirus crisis has revealed some enduring flaws in America’s civic immune system. It may have also illuminated a time-honored cure.

The fraught quest to find a woman to unite the party—and win over swing voters all at the same time

The peril of gender-blind consensus thinking

How market pressures and professional hubris have undone campaign journalism

Very online vitriol can be counterproductive, but anger is often the last resort of the dispossessed.

The Democratic primary is down to two old white men, but political representation should mean more than identity alone.

How endorsements have hardened the primary’s left-moderate binary

“For the general, if it is Biden v. Trump, I will write in Anita Hill.”

She never really gave an honest answer about her complicated relationship with Indian Country, and now her campaign is over.

The vanquished Democratic presidential candidate understands power better than any of her rivals.

The Massachusetts senator faltered every time she tried to be a conventional politician.

The Supreme Court will decide whether Elizabeth Warren’s brainchild will continue to exist, or if it’ll merely expand Donald Trump’s power over it.

She has been criticized for declining to attack Bernie Sanders. But there’s a very good reason to focus on the billionaire former mayor instead.

The senator’s evisceration of her competitors at the Las Vegas Democratic debate hinted at an ability to shatter a long-standing political convention.

There’s public support for the policy, but many voters have questions about how to get it through a Congress that ruins most of what it touches.

Business leaders and corporate cheerleaders talk a good game about the importance of quality early care while fleecing working families.

The knives came out in Wednesday’s debate, a portent of much more consequential fights to come in 2020.

The former New York mayor isn’t subverting the American electoral system. He’s exploiting its intentional flaws.

If he wins the nomination, he’ll have to choose a running mate who shares his values but expands his appeal.

Pundits are always trying to titillate their audience with new predictions—and failing to account for their past failures.