We are both the Gettysburg Address and the Trail of Tears; both Ellis Island and ICE raids; both Duke Ellington and Kid Rock.

Conscientious objector applications surge under Trump as military members fear becoming “the saber that he’s rattling.”

Paramount agreed to pay $16m to Trump’s future library or other cause, but not to him, made no apology

You will see ICE now being the single largest federal law enforcement agency in the history of the nation, potentially with enough funding to hire more law enforcement agents than the FBI and more detention potentially than the entire Federal Bureau of Prisons.

How many believe that the representative democracy in the United States is healthy, strong, and working well as we evolve toward a “more perfect Union”?

We’ve moved onto the next phase of the plan, where the Civil Rights Division, the once proud crown jewel of the Justice Department, will participate in stripping naturalized American citizens of their citizenship.

The gun industry’s sales tactics — playing up paranoia and glorifying combat — may be creating a pipeline of extremists willing to open fire.

Those who praise Orban and argue that Hungary provides a useful model for the United States are gravely misguided or worse.

The oligarchs accustomed to such governance are furious that the nation’s capital of capitalism is in danger of serving people instead of megaprofits.

US President Donald Trump links US aid to Netanyahu’s corruption trial in fiery post on his social media site.

Once constrained by grown-ups in the room, Trump now surrounds himself with suckups. The result? A perfect storm of immaturity, cruelty, and power…

The legendary journalist believed that speaking truth to power was the essential underpinning of an embattled American experiment.

Content generated by AI has become a factor in elections around the world. Most of it is bad, misleading voters and discrediting the democratic process.

This was not an airwaves campaign. It was a stoop campaign. As obvious as this might seem, it’s a lesson that keeps going unlearned.

“As long as we have our current system of single-winner plurality elections, third parties have no meaningful chance to do anything more than show up as occasional spoilers.”