The Trump presidency has been a literal call to arms for excitable whites who view nonwhite people as inherent threats.

It’s an emotionally compelling notion for activists and a tidy narrative for pundits. But it’s a 100-year-old myth.

The untold story of the ideological realignment that upended the nation

A rise in extreme polarization culminated in Trump—and likely won’t be vanquished by Biden.

Supermarkets are ending their “hero pay” bonuses, emergency spending provisions are drying up, and eviction moratoriums are about to expire.

Ron DeSantis is the latest in a long line of Republicans who made the state a plutocratic dystopia. Now he’s letting its residents die to save the plutocrats.

How a new class of outsider experts is exploiting institutional failures and destabilizing knowledge

Emboldened and organized, disaffected Republicans are in a position to prove that they can oust the president and reform their party.

Trump is sending an unambiguous message to a country in turmoil—and his armed supporters, from cops to vigilantes, hear it loud and clear.

How talk radio established the power of the modern Republican Party

Ezra Klein’s flawed diagnosis of the divisions in American politics

Do we need to get more polarized?

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

Some conservatives want ordinary citizens to return to their jobs and absorb the unfolding coronavirus catastrophe on everyone’s behalf.

The GOP’s coronavirus response has one goal: to preserve America’s economic hierarchy.

Why Sanders’s haters keep finding similarities between two politicians who could not be more different

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

In order to save our democracy, we must not merely defeat the Republican Party.

The right's fixation on trans youth has found its new target: criminalizing doctors who provide puberty blockers and hormones.

Decades of anti-unionism are coming to a head in the state.