The president-elect says he’ll pardon January 6 rioters, many of whom assaulted police at the U.S. Capitol that day. Why won’t the unions condemn it? There’s a simple answer.

After years of touting the need to preserve democracy and the rule of law, the outgoing president concludes his reign in the most cynical way imaginable.

Now that Trump has escaped punishment for his many crimes, the lesson is clear: He can do whatever he wants, and get away with it.

Trump’s choice to run the Justice Department may win confirmation, but Senate Democrats can lay down some serious markers during her confirmation hearings.

Concerns about political violence and misinformation are pervasive, but state and local authorities say that your vote is more secure than you might think.

The former president has hinted that he’s brewing up some kind of ominous plot with the Louisiana lawmaker.

Some were just embarrassing. Many were horrific. All of them should disqualify him from another four years in the White House.

His latest brief in the January 6 case inadvertently suggests how a future President Trump could cling to power through “official” acts.

Yes, Donald Trump’s behavior is breathtaking. But stealing elections and committing treason is old hat for the GOP.

Donald Trump’s idea of unity: Everybody just needs to unify around putting him above the law. The media must resist getting played by his scam.

After being shot at a rally on Saturday, Trump is a bigger threat to American democracy than ever before. Why aren’t Democrats acting like it?

The conservative justices have ignored history altogether and created a shocking new precedent: The president is above the law.

With Trump escalating his threats to pardon MAGA supporters who attacked the Capitol, former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann explains how this shows the rule of law is in deep peril.

Top of the list: How do we keep a straight face when you pretend to be an inflation hawk?

Not so long ago, Steven Calabresi thought Trump should be kicked off the ballot. Now he thinks the former president’s critics are engaged in “a political witch hunt” to take him down.

The man has been running scams for decades. But now, with either the White House or the Big House beckoning, he’s kicked it into overdrive.

The federal judge overseeing the classified documents case keeps coming up with increasingly ridiculous reasons not to begin the trial.

As he made clear in a Supreme Court opinion in 2022, he’s well aware of how private intentions and public perception can differ when it comes to flying flags.

The Supreme Court justice’s flag controversy should come as no surprise to anyone who paid attention to his nomination hearings in 2006.

Not only is election denialism antidemocratic. It’s expensive—it cost at least half a billion dollars after 2020. The solution? Make the denialists pay. Here’s how.