Why the GOP is poised to create large-scale voting chaos this year

The perpetual quest to win over real, unpretentious Americans

Why do famous architects continue to work with corrupt authoritarians and pernicious corporations?

The peril of gender-blind consensus thinking

The subtlest way to undermine democracy is to fake it.

Hoda Muthana left the U.S. to join ISIS. Now she wants to return home to stand trial, but the Trump administration won’t let her. She is a test case for the future of birthright citizenship.

Lou Dobbs believes Trump is one of history’s Great Men. The president is listening.

How market pressures and professional hubris have undone campaign journalism

The ancient roots of communal liberty

The Maine senator was never an independent force in Washington, but reporters concocted that myth to justify their phony narratives.

Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and other moderates claim they Get Things Done—but not because they actually do get things done.

Can Hulu’s new documentary ever set the record straight?

How today’s religious right functions as a shadow political party

How Wikipedia managed to stay fun and weird after 20 years

The hidden dynamic that’s transformed our politics—and will loom large in the 2020 election

The rise of the STEM-obsessed, corporate-partnered university

How millennial socialists make the case for a kinder politics

Lazy pundits are employing a racially loaded concept that does nothing to explain the deep divisions in America.

When her memoirs attracted moral outrage—and got her sued—she found a new way to frame stories.

A new book traces the workings of the Council for National Policy. But how much influence does the organization really wield?