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One of President Biden’s early achievements does not get enough attention: He is rolling back the politics of culture wars. This is good news for...
President Biden has had a great start. When he can act by himself, or when the majority can rule in Congress, he can get a lot done. But a crisis is...
The act was old. The self-involvement was as intense as ever. The lies about the 2020 election continued. The dreary attacks on his foes, the unhinged...
What if Neera Tanden is not who many Republicans seem to think she is? What if her caustic tweets are not the whole story? There’s a side of Tanden,...
If we want our democratic system to work well again, we need to put aside lazy intellectual habits that misdiagnose the problems we face. Few mistakes...
In a quieter time, what President Biden said on Feb. 14 about his hopes for combating the scourge of violence in our country might have been much...
Here’s the thing about President Biden and his party in 2021: They’re no longer scared. They’re not defensive, or constantly looking over their...
Don’t waste time mourning the Senate’s failure to convict Donald Trump for crimes so dramatically and painstakingly proven by the House...
When it comes to the role of religion in public life, our nation needs a restart. And President Biden intends to try. Battles over religion are...
The House impeachment managers moved efficiently on Wednesday to close off the escape hatches and back doors for Senate Republicans. Quietly but...
I never liked the phrase “the new normal,” which became popular after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. It was a too-easy, high drama cliche, but...
Ever notice how often Washington commentary privileges generalities over specifics, and politics over substance? The conversation comparing President...
The Democrats can use their House and Senate majorities to reform our politics, guarantee voting rights and enhance our democracy. Or they can...
In another time, the election of only the second Roman Catholic president in U.S. history, a loyal church-goer who publicly embraces his faith, would...
So much for unity. Sure, we all want to hope that Washington will suddenly work differently, especially since President Biden is someone who —...
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. earned an important and honorable place in our nation’s history on Wednesday simply by raising his hand and taking the...
Since Donald Trump has stopped being president in anything but name, President-elect Joe Biden decided to assume the role six days early. In...
Two things are essential for our nation: We must move beyond the vicious, mendacious and anti-democratic presidency of Donald Trump. And Republicans...
We mourn the desecration of our nation’s Capitol by a right-wing mob and must hold those responsible, including President Trump, accountable. We...
Thanks to the voters of Georgia, the 2020 election looks very different than it did 48 hours ago. Barring a highly unlikely shift in the vote count,...
One of the singularly important intellectual developments of the past year was a rekindling of interest in the Reconstruction era after the Civil War,...
It’s fitting that President Trump’s final days in office are offering a full display of the contradictions, follies, deceptions and plain...
We humans often learn more from bad experiences than good ones. This ought to make 2020 one of the most instructive years in history. We cannot undo...
On Christmas morning, our family will once again follow a ritual that my wife’s late mother established with her family: We will stick a candle into...
When John Lynch was governor of New Hampshire, his approval ratings were often stratospheric — hitting 73 percent in one 2008 poll. Lynch, a...
President-elect Joe Biden’s decision to campaign in Georgia for two Democratic Senate candidates facing runoff elections next month is a bigger deal...
At least the Confederate secessionists acknowledged that Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 election. The 18 Republican state attorneys general and 126...
In 1975, President Gerald Ford made it a priority after the predations of Watergate to restore trust in the Justice Department as a politically...
President Trump’s success in politicizing mask-wearing has been destructive to human life. By encouraging his followers to ignore the advice of...
The shameful complicity of Republican leaders in President Trump’s torrent of deceit about our election tells us there is little hope for a more...
The Senate runoffs in Georgia should not be allowed to become a festival of lies about whether socialism, radicalism or defunding the police are on...
When President-elect Joe Biden introduced his national security team this week, a line that received almost no attention defined what may be the most...
A friend recently turned a statement of fact into an expression of gratitude. “I work from home,” she said, “which means that I have a job and I...
President-elect Joe Biden’s victory offered the cheerful prospect that we might begin to detoxify our politics. Maybe we could forget Donald Trump...
The refusal of most Republicans to stand against President Trump’s unconscionable campaign to discredit a free election is one of the lowest points...
Do we want our economy to recover, or do we want it to stagnate? Do we want suffering on a large scale, or do we want to alleviate pain? Do we want to...
No. Not this time. Not again. We knew that President Trump had no respect for democracy or the Constitution. So we’re not surprised that he’s...
Myths often grow out of mistaken first impressions. So it needs to be asserted unequivocally that President-elect Joe Biden’s victory is far more...
When Joe Biden first ran for the U.S. Senate from Delaware in 1972, one of his campaign’s leaflets brandished encomiums from Democratic senators...
The one and only priority for democracy’s champions in the coming days must be to defend an honest vote count against a lawless president who would...
The last presidential candidate to win the White House on his third try was Ronald Reagan in 1980. How Joe Biden brought himself to the verge of...
South Carolina Democratic Senate hopeful Jaime Harrison says his campaign is testimony to what can happen when Democrats decide “to compete...
There is only one good thing that can come from the power-mad Republican rush to jam Amy Coney Barrett onto the Supreme Court before Election Day: Of...
The central issue of the 2020 presidential campaign was settled within the first 11 minutes of the final debate between President Trump and former...
Okay, family values voter, can you honestly tell yourself that it’s consistent with your moral commitments to support a president whose...
What if the United States is not as divided and unhinged as it has seemed these past four years? What if the result of the 2016 election was primarily...
Joe Biden may be running a safe and centrist campaign, but beneath the methodical calm is a genuinely innovative ideological appeal. The former vice...
It’s bad enough that Republicans are trying to pack the courts with activist conservative judges eager to use judicial power to roll back nearly...