Matt Ford

@fordm

The attorney general believes the Christian hegemony is essential to American democracy, and wants to leverage state power to uphold it.

The one constant thread in this week's chaos storm of news is that every effort to defend the president only makes things worse for him.

This week provides a fresh reminder that the president may need to stay in office to stay out of the courtroom.

Four debates in, the candidates have yet to address the ballot barriers and purges that threaten their chances in the next election.

A Supreme Court shortlist released on Tuesday marks the beginning of an effort to counter conservative judicial dominance.

Desperate to stand out, he has proposed perhaps the worst idea of the Democratic primary.

The indictment of two shady cronies of Rudy Giuliani only proves that the real crime is what's legal.

Tuesday’s scorched-earth letter to the House uses defiance to mask its self-inflicted defeats.

Standing athwart history, sighing "Whatever."

"Civil war" rhetoric is not uncommon on the fringes of American political discourse. Now it’s also coming from the White House.

It takes a special kind of attorney general to make Jeff Sessions seem scrupulous.

The president and his allies' case for acquittal would get laughed out of court.

While Donald Trump talks about patriotism, others act on it.

There's too much at stake for Democrats to take half-steps.

Nancy Pelosi wants to be seen pushing for the president's moment of reckoning while ensuring it never arrives.

What would it sound like if someone proposed the Electoral College for the first time today?

From the scorched earth of last summer's confirmation battle, nothing good can bloom.

It's a notion that's caught on with the wider public, but it does nothing to help us understand or confront violence.

Their radically different approaches to the filibuster prove that the two candidates are different sorts of radicals.

Some leftist thinkers are too pessimistic about the fate of liberal values in the age of Trump.