Cops have been given an incredible set of legal powers immunizing them from the fatal errors of their own decisions—including their decision to do nothing in Uvalde, Texas.

The group of parents has injected conservative politics into classrooms and reshaped the 2022 midterms.

We used to think a silver lining to economic downturns was that inequality halted. But new research suggests recessions speed inequality up.

Now Republicans swear they’re going to address mental health. How dumb do they think the American people are?

Black Americans largely want the same things that white people do. So why are their demands treated as extreme?

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.

It’s not a mystery why the United States has a unique problem with mass shootings.

Biden’s executive order on policing may apply only to federal agents, but until legislation can be passed, it still matters.

Elections in red states may be hard, but they serve as potential laboratories for Democrats to retool their struggles with working-class appeals.

And it was … interesting to see the “bipartisan” No Labels group come out and say that the House select committee is “a partisan exercise.”

If it passes, the Golden State would set up a confrontation with the Supreme Court, which blessed the Lone Star State’s anti-abortion law.

What’s the answer to gun violence? More guns, naturally.

It’d likely be a decades-long campaign, but it’s long past time to take disarming America seriously.

The franchise model makes hurting workers inevitable.

The state Republican Party chairman is a serious extremist. Cheney’s opponent, once anti-Trump, now loves him. Can Cheney hang on?

Inflation, abortion rights, and rising childcare costs are the kinds of issues that motivate women to vote. But which party will they support once they get there?

Democrats are sick over the Uvalde massacre, but no one has a plan to get a bipartisan gun reform bill past the Senate filibuster.

I’d like to save your lives, whoever you are, but I can’t. A reactionary electoral minority is blocking the way.

We’ve just become fatalistic about the possibility of politicians doing anything to stop them.

After a long period of inaction on the Second Amendment, the Supreme Court is back to doing what it does best: making our world a more dangerous place.