Speaker Pelosi's plan to keep Trump's crimes and misdemeanors on the back burner has been overtaken by events—and a Michigan Republican.

While Washington debates Trump's legal maneuvers, his administration is committing acts of cruelty that dwarf impeachable offenses.

A Republican "autopsy" of 2018 losses in Wisconsin shows a party struggling to reconcile racist policies with midwestern politics.

The gender wage gap has stagnated because the system leaves it up to female workers to fight for fairness.

Trump's plan to free white service members accused of overseas atrocities both typifies and strengthens his Fox News feedback loop.

If America is becoming a monarchy, it's not Trump who's king.

What Conrad Black’s pardon reveals about the president's crimes.

Barry Sussman, who edited Woodward and Bernstein at The Washington Post, discusses the president, Putin, and what the media must fix.

On the mournful threads connecting Joe Biden’s half-century in politics

With "electability" dominating the 2020 debate, the Vermont independent reminds Democrats of the frontrunner's long, controversial record.

The Democratic frontrunner’s campaign is pitched to white folks who have fled the party. Sound familiar?

While Trump loudly escalates his trade war with China, most 2020 contenders are muted—and that's a mistake.

Not yet, anyway. And American democracy faces a bigger problem than Trump's abuses of power.

The 2020 hopeful connected the dots between drug addiction and corporate greed, and "Trump country" took notice.

The flight attendant union leader knows how to strike fear in the heart of bosses—and not just in the airline industry.

The administration's moves to extend executive privilege, rebuff subpoenas, and challenge the courts are more than a rivalry between government branches.

The conservative media’s delirious efforts to conjure up a socialist nightmare

New Mexico’s GOP establishment treats border militias as the good guys.

The mayor's winning personality won't be enough. He has to stand for something.

The revelations about Trump's taxes prove he was a grifter and a fraud, a braggart and a blowhard. In other words, he was the same man he is today.