We might be witnessing the demise—in uneven fits and starts—of Democrats’ poisonous “reform” thinking. All it took was a global health catastrophe.

We are still living in the world that Walsh, and “America’s Most Wanted,” helped build: a paranoid populace that believes crime is everywhere and can only be solved through relentless policing.

Republicans get four or eight years to rule; Democrats, only two. But Biden’s making excellent use of his limited time.

Biden is convening a Summit for Democracy among friendly nations in December. It will only make China and Russia more hostile.

What ails democracy in her Supreme Court thriller, “While Justice Sleeps”?

The former vice president told the hard truth to the American people. No Democrat has dared do so since.

These public-private partnerships skate by on their complexity and branding, but they undermine a future where housing is a right.

Biden has an opportunity to break the cycle of deadly border militarization embraced by his predecessors of both parties. Will he take it?

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Dror Moreh’s new documentary is an intimate study of the talks’ top negotiators and what they missed.

Joe Biden’s executive memorandum doesn’t go far enough.

The private equity billionaire, pressured into retirement this week, gave $158 million to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Why doesn’t it matter more?

It undermines equality and the common good.

With any luck, Donald Trump’s catastrophic tenure will be the nail in the coffin of the worst idea in politics: that the government can be run like a corporation.

The country is in desperate need of a massive economic recovery program. The incoming administration shouldn’t hold back.

A Trump post-presidency memoir would be a mega-bestseller. But is the industry prepared to deal with the fallout?

I’ve spent years with men like the ones charged in a Michigan plot to kidnap the governor. They aren’t outsiders—they’re intimate products of American democracy.

In the most important election of our lifetime, Joe Biden will have to risk everything.

The president sees suburban America as a bastion of white affluence—an outdated view that could cost him the election.

The former vice president has spent a career looking for the right words. Last night, he found them.