History shows that the opposition needs the antithesis of the president.

Trump and his enablers brazenly claim the GOP plan isn't a massive cut to Medicaid—and they just might get away with it long enough to screw millions of poor Americans.

Yascha Mounk's new book charts the rise of an approach that punishes the poor.

Trump has caused a crisis in American democracy, and the minority party can't rely on "prosecutorial liberalism" to solve it.

To counter threats from China and Russia, the U.S. military is scrambling to weaponize space on a scale not seen since Ronald Reagan.

A memo from 1982 sheds a harsh light on the Trump AG's crusade for “law and order" 25 years later.

To understand the political power of evangelicals, we must look beyond the pulpits.

How Donald Trump betrayed the region—and how Democrats can win it back.

The Founders knew that economic inequality would destroy America's democracy. So why can't the Constitution save us?

Anne Gorsuch Burford—the mother of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch—cut its budget by a quarter and its workforce by 20 percent.

The perils of comparing Trump to twentieth-century dictators.

Meet the far-right "think tank" working to legitimize the immigration crackdown.

Reagan started it. Bush expanded it. Now conservatives are poised to privatize everything in sight.

The president shares the left-wing view that America is a brutal imperialist power. But he thinks there's nothing wrong with that.

The birthplace of the modern conservative movement is now the leader of a Trump resistance founded on federalism.

Political scientists have argued that Trump represents the last gasp of a failing coalition. But we might be in a new political era altogether.

The president-elect joins a long minority tradition within the GOP of opposition to European alliances, and it could lead to global conflict.

It worked for Republicans—twice. And charismatic candidates like Barack Obama and Bill Clinton don't appear every four years.

Her barnstorming speech at this weekend’s Golden Globes showed how political discourse always fits itself to the shape of the screen.