The Democratic Party can’t stop America’s spiral into autocracy and oligarchy unless it casts off its stale talking points ...

Like apartheid-era South African whites, today’s Republicans will need to choose between an accommodation with the coming ...

The Democratic Party looks like it's going to have to fight itself before it can fight Trump and his Republican allies.

Decline can start slowly and then accelerate. America’s democratic backsliding in the first weeks of Trump’s second presidency follows the erosion of democratic norms over decades. Republican ...

In his seminal 1835 book “Democracy in America,” Tocqueville writes, “For the Americans the ideas of Christianity and liberty are so completely mingled that it is almost impossible to ...

Public opinion can be moved when our leaders take us there. Decline can start slowly and then accelerate. America’s democratic backsliding in the first weeks of Trump’s second presidency follows the ...

Sen. Chuck Schumer did what he thought was right for the country and his party in avoiding a government shutdown last week; naturally, the selfish showboaters are slamming him for it. He quite ...

One of the most important premises of America’s election system in the ... that overseas voters – only from four Democratic-leaning counties – should have their ballots thrown out because ...

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said on Sunday that Americans want Democrats to “take risks right now” to “save our democracy” ...

America’s most dangerous adversaries have been celebrating what they see as a major victory: a funding freeze that has effectively halted the work of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED ...

None of this is brainwashing, but it is reshaping public debate not just in the U.S. but in the U.K., Europe and other places ...

Less polite language on protest paddles, sick burns in the private Slack, and other techniques for sticking it to the Republican party.