How the North Carolina GOP's anti-democratic chicanery became the national party's playbook for electoral theft

A toothless profile of the racist pundit reveals how mainstream journalism is still failing to cover politics in the Trump era.

A bill to combat the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women crisis was sidetracked by Republicans griping about tribal sovereignty.

The night I partied with the now-disgraced congressman, I learned brazenness and entitlement might have been his best qualities.

Electoral losses in Kentucky and Virginia send conservatives down a rabbit hole of illiberalism.

How one columnist’s wild family history explains an increasingly isolated school of conservatism

It’s not the narrow loss in a special election that should worry the national party, it’s what Republicans did the next morning.

Few humans hold more responsibility for the unfolding climate crisis than David Koch, the 79-year-old oil magnate who died this week.

As the influence of the gun lobby fades, the gun industry has found a new and perhaps even more powerful ally.

Trump is turning the Republican Party even whiter and more male than before, with profound consequences for party and country alike.

Lewis Powell once drafted a how-to guide for maximizing political power. Only one party took his advice. Here's how Democrats can catch up.

The Speaker's feud with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reveals a great deal about her approach to leadership.

The Supreme Court ruled Trump officials needed a better reason to tinker with the census; Democracy watchdogs aren't waiting for them to find one.

In search of the Democratic Party's fighting spirit

Though they threaten defections over personnel and policy, members of the president's party are truer than ever to the man.

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

Republican attempts at voter suppression have inspired a movement to restore and expand access to the polls.

How austerity and climate change put northeastern Nebraska underwater

A Republican "autopsy" of 2018 losses in Wisconsin shows a party struggling to reconcile racist policies with midwestern politics.

For Democrats in 2020, energizing and expanding the base will bring in far more votes than moving right to grab a vanishingly small psychographic.