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.

The administration's moves to extend executive privilege, rebuff subpoenas, and challenge the courts are more than a rivalry between government branches.

New Mexico’s GOP establishment treats border militias as the good guys.

Reports that the GOP is coming around on climate change have been greatly exaggerated. They will never be part of the solution. Let's move on.

If the party wants to win beyond 2020, it has to defeat deficit hypocrisy now.

Republicans keep saying Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's plan is too expensive. But their own plan—to ignore the climate crisis—is even more so.

The former V.P. seems set to build his 2020 run on the idea that the current president has hijacked the GOP.

How shock jock comedy gave way to Donald Trump’s Republican Party