Some Democrats are more afraid of backlash than they are concerned with making government work for people.

A state lawsuit against the Shinnecock Indian Nation tells a much bigger story about the forces stacked against Native self-determination.

Amy Coney Barrett’s ascension to the high court could have an immediate, and lasting, impact on how the United States governs public health crises.

There is an astonishing gap between what we know about the virus and the policies Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio are proposing.

The party rejected calls this year for a massive reordering of society. Here’s a different kind of revolutionary idea.

Democratic leaders are treating billionaires delicately in the hopes that they’ll relinquish their riches on their own. Bernie Sanders has a better idea.

The state has long had the gun rights group in their crosshairs, but there’s a Trumpian edge to their plan to bring them down.

We are in the midst of a world-historic failure of governance. Why isn’t anyone in charge acting like they are responsible for it?

An abolitionist demand rose to mainstream prominence. Now every politician and cable news talking head is suddenly an expert.

Only a few months ago, Silicon Valley was the subject of intense criticism in Washington and beyond. Then the pandemic struck.

In a global health crisis, political déjà vu becomes deadlier.

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

In April, Darlene “Lulu” Benson-Seay became the first woman incarcerated by New York State to die from Covid-19. Should she have been in prison in the first place?

From the pandemic response to campaign strategy, it looks like there are two Republican parties.

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

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

Liberals’ glorification of expertise amid the coronavirus and climate crises reveals their own distrust of democracy.

How a New York law on “masquerading” passed in the early nineteenth century has been used—and abused—in the decades since

We don’t want glory. We just want our jobs to be protected—in every sense.

Makeshift morgues and field hospitals are cropping up around the city as thousands die and tens of thousands fall ill from the coronavirus.