A consideration of dirty work, the people who dream of doing it, and what it means for everyone else

How the Capitol riot was a natural consequence of the country’s response to the 9/11 attacks

If they’re the conscience of the Republican Party, then the post-Trump era will be just as destructive as the past four years were.

The post-9/11 consensus is crumbling, so America’s hawks are inventing fresh rhetoric to justify imperialist disasters.

Wolfgang Kaleck is using the justice system to do what nation-states will not or cannot.

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.

The forty-third president set the stage for a world-historical dimwit to run the nation into the ground.

How Biden treats his predecessor could determine the fate of American democracy

After four years of corruption and venality, can the country’s law enforcement agency be saved?

The president and his allies are desperately searching for their Bush v. Gore. The results are pathetic.

A new documentary, “537 Votes,” takes viewers back to the 2000 Florida recount—and shows how little has changed since then.

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.

The media is becoming obsessed with a distraction from what’s actually happening to the Supreme Court.

The late justice’s legacy is a towering monument to liberalism’s quest for equal rights.

Democrats’ insistence on redeeming pre-Trump Republicans will corrupt the party’s agenda and spoil the chance for real social reform.

Robert Burrows was once the subject of a devastating book review. He was also much more than that.

The conservative legal scholar’s first brush with a Republican presidency led to tragedy. His second encounter leans toward farce.

The twenty-first century’s version of the Know-Nothing Party has taken the wanton disregard for knowledge to dizzyingly destructive heights.

A rise in extreme polarization culminated in Trump—and likely won’t be vanquished by Biden.