How the NRA seeded the storylines animating the violent groups that will be patrolling this year’s election

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.

Pandemic be damned, the president intends to see out the conservative mission of cutting out America’s democratic heart.

It won’t be what makes or breaks his chances against Trump.

Democrats may soon discover that their most important accomplishment in the last election wasn’t retaking the House of Representatives.

The president has transformed yesterday’s Tea Party revolutionaries into worshippers of authoritarian power in Washington.