The Bakersfield Republican has everything it takes to rise to the top in today’s GOP: zero interest in policy, relentless thirst for power, and slavish loyalty to Trump. If this man becomes speaker of the House—look out, America.

For liberals, no state in the country feels more important in the November midterm elections than Georgia. Can Stacey Abrams and Raphael Warnock prevail?

The Democrat from the swingiest district in the country is basing her reelection campaign on investigating January 6 and taking on Trump.

Red states are using the Dobbs decision to reach into blue states to try to change our way of life. They want a culture war? Let’s give ’em one.

Kari Lake and other far-right candidates have latched onto a controversy in the Scottsdale school district whipped up by conservative mothers.

The long-predicted nationwide wave of lockouts is finally cresting. A report from New York City housing court

From the fall of the Berlin Wall to 9/11, we had relative peace and prosperity. It was an opportunity to salve some festering national wounds. We squandered it completely—and helped give rise to the crises we’re dealing with today.

Christopher Dunn has spent more than 30 years in prison for a murder he and others say he didn’t commit. The state of Missouri says he must stay there—because he wasn’t sentenced to death.

He came in wanting to depoliticize the Justice Department. But does that mean letting an ex-president get away with subverting democracy?

Just 7 percent of the people in Los Angeles’s Echo Park encampment found permanent housing after it was cleared. Almost half are missing. Seven are dead. That’s not a failure of homelessness policy; it’s an example of the system working exactly as intended.

A Polish reproductive rights lawyer recounts the extraordinary obstacles women in Poland have faced since the country prohibited nearly all abortions.

Tennessee is one of 13 states with “trigger” laws that would fully outlaw abortion if Roe v. Wade is overturned.

TRUTH Social is supposed to compete with Twitter. So far, it’s been a mess. And Trump may go back to Twitter anyway. But it still could work out to be a killer grift.

The conservative justices are poised to demolish a half-century legal precedent on abortion rights—and they either don’t understand, or don’t care about, the anguish of unwanted pregnancy.

Unfortunately, it won’t hurt Republicans either.

The end of Roe v. Wade will accelerate an existing effort to criminally punish people for their abortions, stillbirths, and miscarriages.

To take away the right to privacy is to take a giant step backward in American history.

Our democracy is teetering, and there are not two sides to this issue.

Cory Booker, Mary Trump, Anthony Scaramucci, and others weigh in on the worst-case scenario.

If we want to stop the anger, we need to stop the scorn.