With civic bonds frayed, the party bet big that delivering on policy would do the trick. It did not. There is difficult work ...

Donald Trump is continuing to build a multiethnic, working-class party, while Democrats are left with a coalition of ...

The most effective opposition this time might be investing in things that Trump’s rhetoric tries to delegitimize.

The Reactionary Spirit: How America’s Most Insidious Political Tradition Swept the World by Zack Beauchamp • PublicAffairs • 2024 • 272 pages • $30 In 1955, the political theorist Louis Hartz ...

Our friend Nick Hanauer, the Seattle venture capitalist, has established himself in recent years as probably the leading voice among the zillionaire class for a sensible progressive economic policy ...

Immigration outcomes are often portrayed as a product of U.S. policy and will. The real story is more complicated—and more tragic.

In 1921, Dr. Frederick Banting and a team of researchers in Toronto discovered that insulin, a naturally occurring protein obtained from the pancreases of hogs and cattle, could stabilize the ...

We’re now a year and change into this chilling era, and yet it’s still shocking. Every day, it seems, we have occasion to say: He did what?! Sometimes more than once a day. We all spend a lot of time ...

The anti-Trump conservatives—as opposed to the anti-Trump Republicans, of which there are perhaps two—have made for a fascinating story in this era. And so we thought this was a good time to check in ...

Our lead package in this issue turns attention to the most overlooked political species in America: the red-state liberal. We know all about blue-state liberals and red-state conservatives; and Lord ...

Ten or so years ago, liberals finally realized that they were way behind conservatives in terms of building a successful political infrastructure. The right had bigger and better-funded think tanks, ...

For nearly 50 years, Ruth Bader Ginsburg has done more than anyone to build the legal framework for women’s equality.