January 6 was the biggest shock to our republic since JFK’s assassination—and in many ways, much more frightening.

Democrats are pressing forward on measures intended to counter the GOP’s push for voter suppression, pledging to vote on a Senate rules change in the near future.

The chief justice’s veiled end-of-year remarks seem to indicate that if the high court cannot reform itself, reform will be forced upon it.

Those of us who were working at the Capitol that day don’t yet bear scars because we’re nowhere close to healing.

The lib-trolling Trump sycophant is at the top of most Democrats’ 2022 lists. He’s certainly beatable. But that’s what everyone thought in 2016, too.

A $26 billion deal is now in local governments’ hands. It could go to harm reduction or toward police and politicians’ pet concerns.

The Supreme Court on Friday will consider two Biden administration rules to protect workers from the virus. Will the conservative justices buy a disingenuous reading of the word “necessary”?

Junior staffers at Penguin Random House scoff at the idea that one of their own was powerful enough to derail a new collection of the author’s work.

The American Legislative Exchange Council is pushing cookie-cutter laws that could lock pension funds and taxpayers into losing deals—while propping up coal and other fossil fuel firms.

Working as a police informant can be deadly—and people with a history of drug use are at extra risk of relapse or overdose.

In an interview, the chairman makes clear that the select committee means business—but acknowledges there are limits on how much power the body has.

The town’s lefties might not be notching a lot of wins, but they’re having a lot more fun.

Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague’s book shows how scattershot January 6 was—and why a repeat could be harder to stop.

I worried for my daughter and son-in-law, hiding elsewhere in the Capitol. And I drew strength from the memory of my lost son.

Cerebral palsy was long considered a children’s condition. People aging with it face a dearth of research and health insurance that can’t comprehend their disability.

A burgeoning new field of spiritual counseling promises to cleanse the faithful of far-right religious ideas. But is this just swapping one kind of snake oil with another?

How the Maryland representative became the man for this historical moment

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Remote-access abortion has been framed as the wave of the future. But plenty of states will still find ways to criminalize self-managed abortion.