Much like their client, the White House’s lawyers don’t seem to understand what a president does, but they’re not letting that stop them.

A massive undertaking lies ahead of Joe Biden if he truly wants an epochal shift in American politics.

The presumptive nominee has promised to reverse Trump’s xenophobic policies, but he’s failed to reckon with his own party’s failings.

Attorney General Bill Barr’s transparent corruption has reached farcical new levels. And he’s not done by a damn sight.

Councils, work groups, and advisory boards are planning the future of the country. No one is doing much about the present.

The Pentagon’s ill-advised new “interim” recruiting policy could cause precisely the harm to service members that it seeks to avoid.

The brief travails of a recent NFL draftee demonstrate the awesome power of white racial innocence.

Judge Justin Walker is the worst of a long line of right-wing dilettantes fast-tracked by Mitch McConnell in his relentless quest to subvert the judiciary.

Politicians and pundits are always lamenting the division in Washington. Well, Congress came together to address the coronavirus crisis—and failed.

Holding Bush up as a paragon of civic virtue underscores the party’s failures to present a real alternative.

For the president, the question isn’t how many people die from the coronavirus pandemic, but who.

While Joe Biden has struggled to say anything truly memorable to voters this year, it’s a malady shared by his party’s key figures in the post-Obama era.

The current crisis is forcing us to reconsider what it means to have to work to live. It's long overdue.

Far from shining a curative light on the Trump administration, the media has become engulfed by his empire of stupidity.

Under pressure for his coronavirus response, the former media darling of the crisis is sounding a bit like Donald Trump.

The right has mobilized a small army of true believers willing to die in the defense of a less just world.

If the would-be Libertarian candidate “spoils” the race, Joe Biden and his party will have no one to blame but themselves.

The coronavirus pandemic is exactly the excuse Washington has been looking for to start a conflict with China.

Our civic life has become a vast desert, devoid of nerve or imagination, and it’s slowly killing us.

Recent attempts to sideline a self-imploding president have failed miserably.