The “Hillbilly Elegy” author spent the first week of his campaign apologizing for his past criticism of Trump. He’s going to have to grovel even more if he hopes to defeat the Forever Trumpers he’s up against.

The GOP is strategizing how to win back the House through gerrymandering, setting the stage to dispute the 2024 election results if Trump fails to topple Biden.

The former president’s class-action suit against Twitter and Facebook is a typically ham-fisted grab for power and money. It can die in the courts and still serve him well.

Aspiring Republicans once had to sign Grover Norquist’s no-new-taxes pledge. Now they must be devoted to the former president’s perfidies.

The Republican Party will use the justice’s sentimental beliefs about democracy against him.

Blame the city’s corrupt and incompetent Board of Elections instead.

Trump was not charged in the indictments handed down by the Manhattan district attorney, but his legal and financial perils still continue to mount.

The White House is discovering that the path to undoing the former president’s most despised policy is full of tricks and traps.

Elites want to wish away the last four years, but they ignore the former president’s 50 million fans at their peril.

Attorney General Merrick Garland is suing the state over its voter suppression law—the administration’s first major response to the Republicans’ nationwide assault on elections.

The events of January 6 have made reforming the Electoral Count Act of 1887 a vital step to protect our democracy.

Local election officials around the country are getting death threats. Many are quitting their jobs. The Justice Department needs to do something.

The party once freely condemned the would-be insurrectionists who attempted to waylay democracy. You’d hardly know it now.

Transforming the academic study of structural racism into a vague grab bag of villainy has been useful fodder for moral panic while the GOP figures out how to attack Joe Biden.

Lindsey Graham and other conservatives are trying to turn the Covid controversy du jour into the new Russiagate.

The former president and his enablers abused their power to spy on lawmakers. What will Congress do about it?

The attorney general wants to restore the DOJ’s independence, to the chagrin of progressives who want a more forceful response to the Trump era.

For all the talk of the GOP’s new working-class focus, it’s as eager as ever to serve the interests of plutocrats at the expense of everyone else.

“The number of Fox staffers who said to me, ‘I miss Roger Ailes’ absolutely astonished me.”

Biden’s upcoming meeting with the Russian president is the perfect opportunity to shrink Russia’s outsize significance in American politics.