Yes, it’s fair to compare Trump’s Madison Square Garden spectacle to the Nazi rally of 1939.

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

The former president spent the weekend spewing dangerous nonsense at a rally. The press spent its weekend polishing it into palatability.

Why 2024 could be the year America votes for a Black woman president.

This magazine’s own history reflects liberalism’s halting progress. Can it, and we, do better?

We say very clearly that rural America is hurting. But we refuse to justify attitudes that some scholars try to underplay.

What the politics of Bamberg County reveal about the former South Carolina governor’s struggles against Trump

His “Clash of Civilizations” essay in Foreign Affairs turned 30 this year. It was provocative, influential, manna for the modern right—and completely and utterly not true.

The protests over the police killing of Nahel Merzouk have reignited the debate over the country’s claims of color blindness.

Paul Schrader’s portrait of an ex–white supremacist gang member is an unlikely feat of optimism.

Racists from different eras still sound a lot alike.

An astonishing one-third of Capitol artworks depict slaveholders. Will they remain? It’s largely up to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

The Florida governor and potential presidential contender used his inauguration address to target his favorite bogeyman.

A new book traces the long history of cloaking racism in the language of resistance to an overbearing federal government.

Amid the threats of climate change and civil war, the “solidarity dividend” benefits everyone.

Meet Europe’s new far right, the same as the old far right.

Republican Herschel Walker and Democrat Raphael Warnock are facing off in November. Both men are Black. This does not mean—contra New York Times pundit Frank Bruni—that race isn’t a factor.

America’s preeminent Protestant denomination is tearing itself apart over its leaders’ long-running cover-up of abusers in its ranks. But there’s a deeper reckoning that’s being avoided.

The gunman was angry about “replacement theory.” Gee, where do we think he might have first heard about that?

There was once a thriving Black middle class based on farm ownership. But during the twentieth century, the USDA helped erase that source of wealth.