Andrew Johnson’s opponents discovered the difficulties of removing a president.

As the 2020 candidates race to issue policy papers, are they failing to communicate a bigger message?

New York could become the first state to decriminalize prostitution. TNR got an exclusive first look at the new bill.

The candidate who graced the cover of "Vanity Fair" settles in for a long tour of retail politicking.

Pelosi's latest case against starting an impeachment inquiry creates more problems for Democrats than it solves.

Bernie Sanders's presence at a revolutionary rally in 1985 needs to be evaluated in light of what was actually happening in Nicaragua and the U.S. in the 1980s.

Democratic leaders are learning the wrong lessons from recent history.

American journalists have strong constitutional protections, but even the U.S. is part of a global trend among autocracies and democracies alike.

In "Siege," his followup to "Fire and Fury," Michael Wolff struts and frets his way through another chaotic year, but does it signify more than nothing?

Nevada Democrats won full control of the state legislature and governorship last year. Here's what they did with that power.

How did facial hair win American men’s hearts and minds? Thank the war on terror.

Pete Buttigieg's plan is constitutionally dubious and would enshrine the very problem it seeks to eradicate. Here's a different solution.

Or are they just looking to cut a deal for the sake of cutting a deal?

Having only a hazy idea of what, exactly, fascism consists of makes it hard to explain why fascist rhetoric needs to be excluded from public discourse.

We can save millions of lives from climate change, but only if we change our own. Democrats should start acknowledging that.

A mysterious murder reveals the ways in which the video-sharing site has spread conspiracies of all kinds—very much including those created by rightwing supporters of President Trump.

New evidence confirms the Trump administration wants a citizenship question on the census for one reason: To suppress Latinx votes.

Missouri is poised to lose its last abortion provider, increasing the large swath of the country where the nearest clinic is impossibly far for poor and rural women.

The moral argument doesn't work. Opponents of capital punishment in New Hampshire succeeded with a different approach.

For decades, the city used strict zoning laws to target the poor and people of color. Today, liberal NIMBYs are fighting to preserve them.