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This is ‘what authoritarian governments do to promote their leaders.’
The search for fraud in the federal government must always end in the same place.
The Supreme Court has had a lot to do with it.
New matrix, meet the old matrix.
The Republican fringe is becoming the Republican mainstream.
The president has a very simple strategy for the midterms.
The price of unprotected status can be very high.
The president’s unusual relationship to the objective world leaves him dangerously unable to pivot, shift gears or change course.
The mail-in voting fiasco is the latest proof that we have another reconstruction ahead of us.
Trump does not see himself as a mere president subject to the public’s opinion.
President Trump exists in a degraded, chaotic environment.
The lust for vengeance shapes the president’s priorities, drives his actions and structures the decisions of his government.
What would happen if he’s forced to confront an external crisis?
‘Citizen Vigilante’ is a bargain-bin movie for the ages.
Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?
Trump’s attempt to drum up a third red scare is certain to fail.
The revolutionary meaning of the Declaration of Independence did not elude her.
He could see the obvious truth that Trump was a malign and corrosive force in American politics — that is, until Trump won the White House.
It wasn’t Thomas Jefferson who made “All men are created equal” actually mean something.
Shadow commemorations in Chicago and New York.
“Voter fraud” is not about fraud. It is about who votes and how.
Trump has gone beyond kayfabe.
It starts with “We the people” for a reason.
The best pathway out is to make Congress great again.
Lincoln would know how to deal with these Republicans.
Trump has molded the presidency in his image. It isn’t pretty.
The Voting Rights Act has more democratic legitimacy than the court that is trying to destroy it.
The ruling in Louisiana v. Callais might drive America’s politics to an even more precarious place of partisan tension and ideological Balkanization.
Virginians must fight back against its Supreme Court in the name of popular sovereignty.
Guess who benefits from a “colorblind Constitution.”
This is a president who rarely travels beyond the confines of the White House compound or Mar-a-Lago.
The president is one of a kind.
The president loves the 19th century. But why?
This is not a man in control of himself.
Trump wants to find out just how weak this Supreme Court is.
His project of subordination at home and abroad continues unabated.
Trump cannot see that his opposition is real. He cannot see that it can act of its own accord.
The constitutional strength of a functional Congress.
This Is what the president is fixated on right now?
Don’t hold your breath.
There is an alternate universe in which the president is the popular, successful figure of his imagination.
The State of the Union was very revealing.
The real state of the union.
A Q & A with Andrea Pitzer.
The Declaration of Independence’s powerful vision of equality stands as a chief obstacle to the MAGA right’s effort to consummate its vision of...
Any serious push to account for the actions of this government must include recompense and repair for its victims.
The birther of a nation.
Some are more American than others.
Arresting Don Lemon doesn’t send the message the president wants it to.
The White House has failed to achieve either its strategic or its tactical goals in Minnesota.