"They are deliberately destroying democracy in favor of oligarchy." by Heather Cox Richardson In the 1890s and the 1920s, Americans took back their democracy. Today, we are at an even more dramatic crisis.

Never Trumpers Will Want to Read This History Lesson by Joshua Zeitz In the 1850s, disaffected Democrats made the wrenching choice to leave their party to save American democracy. Here’s what happened.

How the Right Wing Convinces Itself That Liberals Are Evil by David A. Walsh Since the 1950s, the conservative movement has justified bad behavior—including supporting Donald Trump—by persuading itself that the left is worse.

Trump has taken Putin's side by Tom Nichols His stability and America's safety are now in question.

How the GOP Embraced the World—And Then Turned Away by William I. Hitchcock Decades ago, Dwight Eisenhower defeated the isolationist faction of the Republican Party. Now, Trump is toppling his legacy.

Europe’s Dependence on the U.S. Was All Part of the Plan by Claire Berlinski Postwar U.S. statesmen designed our world order as it is for a reason. They had lived through what happened without it.

The Supreme Court Doesn't Need 9 Justices by Jacob Hale Russell It needs 27.

A new book examines the real and threatened power of impeachment An interview with the authors: Laurence Tribe and Joshua Matz.

Meet the Trumpverstehers by Eliot A. Cohen We know about the president’s most vocal supporters. But what about his more discreet following?

Trump and the Return of Divine Right by David Armitage In deploying his pardon power freely and using the Bible to justify family separation, the president is exactly the sort of ruler that Enlightenment thinkers feared.