What Bill Baird's aggressive, often illegal form of activism can teach a new generation about combating anti-abortion forces.

How the president took his predecessors’ gun-running tradition to dirty new depths.

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

Democrats who want to impeach Trump would do well to heed history.

They tried to defend the president, and failed spectacularly. So now they’re keeping their mouths shut.

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

Attorney General Bill Barr and ex-prosecutor Rudy Giuliani share the same job: defending the president.

When Trump tweets about "civil war," he's echoing books about race wars and nationalist coups that a violent fringe has long cherished.

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

Hawks are telling the president to toughen up on Chinese nukes, but their plan might spur a new global atomic arms race.

There's no good argument for Nancy Pelosi's narrow approach focusing on Ukraine. There are five other key scandals that demand public hearings.

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

America deserves answers, not closure.

The United States has an interest in keeping the Eastern European state stable and its government looking legitimate. The president's phone call worked against that.

Does an empire of consumers have any hope of saving the planet?

Trump adapts his "immigration crisis" script for homeless Americans.

The Ukraine scandal that's engulfed the Trump White House is the culmination of the former New York City mayor's Eastern European misadventures.

The summary transcript of his call with Ukraine's president only strengthens the case for impeachment.

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

It doesn't matter what Trump said to the Ukrainian president. What matters is that this scandal finally convinced Democrats to begin impeachment.