How to argue with a Koch brother

Not since the Tea Party wave in 2009 has America seen such widespread grassroots activism.

Why so many commentators share an overly grim view of America’s fate

The Democrats are reclaiming language they ceded to the GOP decades ago—and putting a liberal spin on it.

Suburban mothers have been coveted voters since the 1990s, but now they're running for office.

How the show’s new season skewers the book world

It's a foolish, losing message for Democrats—in the midterms and beyond.

The prospect of a Democratic wave in the midterm elections this fall recalls the moment, nearly 50 years ago, when a group of young, liberal lawmakers swept into Congress on a mission to overturn the status quo. What can today's Democrats learn from the historic class of 1974?

The party has the money and machinery. Why is so little of it going toward Hispanic outreach?

The influential congressman is among a wave of Democrats running for attorney general to take on Trump directly.

Silicon Valley’s emerging role in America’s forever war

How a new generation of authoritarian leaders are using climate change to seize power

Undoing one of twentieth-century America’s greatest political achievements

The case against employers asking what you made at your last job

As the ACLU has transformed itself from a nonpartisan protector of civil liberties into one of Donald Trump’s most bitter political foes, it’s been forced to grapple with fundamental questions about its role in American society.