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Classified Documents Get Misplaced All the Time
By Olivia B. Waxman
What Biden’s Documents Reveal About the Confusing Classification System
By Jonathan Abel
We Elected Biden to Be Better Than This
By Mona Charen
We’re Teaching Civics All Wrong in the U.S.
By Frederick M. Hess and RJ Martin
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Republicans Are Caught in a Paralyzing Trap of Orthodoxy
A party awash in backward-looking negativity needs to embrace a positive agenda, writes John Kasich
By John R. Kasich
January 9, 2023
The Real Winners of the 2024 Election Could be China and Russia
America's political system is becoming increasingly polarized and divisive and that empowers its enemies
By Lee Drutman and Sean McFate
December 21, 2022
New Polling Shows the Power of MAGA Even as Support for Trump Fades
Even as support grows for DeSantis over Trump, new polling shows that enthusiasm for MAGA remains strong
By Joshua D. Clinton and John G. Geer
December 15, 2022
American Democracy Is Under Threat—Again
The Supreme Court oral hearing of Moore v. Harper revealed a growing threat to America's elections
By Aziz Huq
December 8, 2022
The 2022 Midterms Show Just How Stuck We Are
American politics is so calcified that there is little reason for Democrats to assume that the 2022 elections portend success in 2024
By John Sides, Michael Tesler, and Lynn Vavreck
November 29, 2022
The FBI Has Always Been Political
Since the FBI's founding, presidents from FDR to Nixon wrestled with its director J. Edgar Hoover over political independence
By Beverly Gage
November 21, 2022
Plenty of Voters Care About Democracy. It’s Still Probably Not Enough.
Few election deniers won in the midterms, but they came close and and it took a lot of money and effort to stop them. That's worrying
By Maresa Strano
November 20, 2022
Trump's Presidential Run Shouldn't Deter Merrick Garland
What happens now to the federal investigations into Trump's conduct, asks Barbara McQuade
By Barbara McQuade
November 17, 2022
The History of Nonconsecutive White House Terms
Donald Trump is not the first President to launch a comeback campaign, but Democrat Grover Cleveland is the only president to serve nonconsecutive terms.
By Olivia B. Waxman
November 16, 2022
What Republicans Should Do With Their Slim House Majority
Mandate thinking can be dangerous—the GOP should represent their voters’ concerns, rather than only an anti-Biden agenda
By Philip Wallach
November 16, 2022
The 2024 Presidential Election? Democrats Have Already Won
The 1912 election bears a striking resemblance to the 2024 election. That's good news for the Democrats
By Jeffrey A. Engel
November 15, 2022
The Democrats Need More John Fettermans
"To ensure a strong future for the party, Democrats must expand their models of political manhood," write Amanda Jayne Miller and Edward O. Frantz.
By Amanda Jayne Miller and Edward O. Frantz
November 11, 2022
How Gen Z Held Off the Red Wave
"When young people’s rights are on the ballot and championed by the candidate, they show up," writes Ashley Aylward.
By Ashley Aylward
November 10, 2022
Politicians' Tough-on-Crime Messaging Could Have Devastating Consequences
Tough on crime rhetoric in the 2022 Midterms threatens a new era of mass incarceration, writes Udi Ofer.
By Udi Ofer
November 3, 2022
Ugly Truth About America's History of Political Violence
From the assassination of Abraham Lincoln to the January 6th insurrection, America has a long, ugly history of effective political violence
By Jeremi Suri
November 2, 2022
How To Save the U.S. From A Second Civil War
As the U.S. becomes more ideologically divided than ever, how do we avoid the vortex of political passion and blame?
By Peter T. Coleman
October 20, 2022
Lincoln Saved American Democracy. We Can Too
The great President’s example can teach us what it takes to stand up for justice.
By Jon Meacham
October 12, 2022
Mike Pence and the History Behind the Jan. 6 Committee
Historians react to former VP Mike Pence's saying it would be "unprecedented in history" for him to summoned to speak before the Jan. 6 Committee
By Melissa August
October 3, 2022
Republican Governors Shipping Migrants Around the Country Is a Disturbing Attack on the Constitution
Governors DeSantis, Ducey, and Abbott are subverting the U.S. Constitution by shipping immigrants around the country
By Heidi Li Feldman
September 23, 2022
The Letitia James Lawsuit May Finally Nail Trump
The New York Attorney General Letitia James' lawsuit against Donald Trump may be the legal action that finally holds him accountable.
By Barbara McQuade
September 22, 2022
The Hypocrisy of Opposing Student Loan Relief
Republicans’ knee-jerk opposition to debt forgiveness conflicts with Christian values.
By William J. Barber II and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
August 25, 2022
The Inside History of How Guns Are Marketed and Sold in America
America's gun industry is currently fixated on selling military-style weapons to consumers, but it wasn't always this way
By Olivia B. Waxman
August 19, 2022
Is Joe Biden Really Another Jimmy Carter?
Historians and former Carter advisers fact-check the critics who have compared Joe Biden to Jimmy Carter
By Olivia B. Waxman
August 16, 2022
What Is the Espionage Act?
Documents reveal that the FBI is investigating whether former President Trump violated the Espionage Act of 1917. Here's what to know
By Olivia B. Waxman
August 15, 2022
What Watergate Experts Think About the Jan. 6 Hearings
And how the two moments compare
By Olivia B. Waxman
July 20, 2022
The Supreme Court Is Dooming America to Repeat History
Those who do not learn from history, George Santayana famously wrote, are doomed to repeat it. But today’s Supreme Court majority seems to have a different idea of the lessons of the past. Increasingly, they...
By Kermit Roosevelt III
July 5, 2022
The Legal Trick That Could Undermine the 2024 Election—If the Supreme Court Doesn't Shut It Down
The results of a case that the Supreme Court has agreed to hear in its next term could seriously undermine the 2024 election
By Vikram D. Amar
June 30, 2022
What the Supreme Court Loses With Justice Breyer's Retirement
During the quarter-century year career on the Supreme Court, Justice Stephen Breyer constantly cultivated two judicial virtues now increasingly absent from the federal bench. The first is a careful, empirical cast of mind, constantly alive...
By Aziz Huq
June 30, 2022
Why Liberal Justices Need to Start Thinking Like Conservatives
America has experienced nothing less than a constitutional earthquake, a jolt caused by deep shifts in the tectonic plates of jurisprudence
By Akhil Reed Amar
June 30, 2022
Why the World Should Be Concerned by the Marcos Victory
Authoritarians around the world have watched the Philippine election with interest and been given a powerful lesson
By Jonathan Corpus Ong
May 10, 2022
If Roe v. Wade Is Overturned, Our Clinic Will Stop Providing Abortions Immediately. But We Won't Shut Down
Today, like most weekday mornings, there will be about a dozen women at various points in early pregnancy patiently waiting for their appointments at West Alabama Women’s Center, where we work. Some of them will...
By Leah Torres and Robin Marty
May 3, 2022
3 Myths About JFK
Nearly 60 years after his assassination, myths about John F. Kennedy's time in office persist. The author of a new book on JFK debunks three of the most common
By Olivia B. Waxman
April 26, 2022
'Keep Listening to My Voice.' What It's Like to Be an Abortion Clinic Escort
"You cannot block the car,” I told the bodies amassed in front of the cab. “That is against the law!” “We don’t have to listen to you!” a man yelled back as he elbowed past...
By Lauren Rankin
April 5, 2022
Joe Biden's Nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson Wasn't Just About Delivering on a Campaign Promise
Well before he was the Democratic nominee for President, Joe Biden pledged that if given the chance, he’d nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court. The announcement that he’d consider both race and...
By Kate Shaw
March 18, 2022
Black Politicians Elected in the South After the Civil War
At least 19 states passed 34 laws restricting access to voting in 2021, according to the Brennan Center for Justice. In Georgia, Gov. Brian Kemp signed a law limiting the number of drop boxes for...
By Olivia B. Waxman and Video by Arpita Aneja
February 7, 2022
Existing Federal Laws Could Protect Abortion Rights Even if Roe Is Overturned
On this year’s anniversary of Roe v. Wade, many wondered if it would be the last. Ever since the Supreme Court heard arguments in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization in December, legal scholars have...
By Greer Donley , Rachel Rebouché and David S. Cohen
January 24, 2022
A 'Mississippi Compromise' on Abortion Would Threaten All Our Freedoms
The last 100-plus days of a ban on most abortions after six weeks in Texas have made painfully clear the future anti-abortion extremists want, not just in Texas, but across the country. And now a...
By Alexis McGill Johnson and Anthony D. Romero
December 16, 2021
There Is No Way I Could Have Gone to an Office 4 Weeks After Having a Baby
I was 13 weeks pregnant with my first child when I first felt the sharp, tearing pain in my groin. I didn’t know it then, but my pubic symphysis—the tiny joint holding together the bones...
By Katie Gutierrez
November 5, 2021
How to Pass Voting Rights With Abolishing the Filibuster
The Senate just needs to pass a simple rule change.
By Kate Shaw
November 5, 2021
Criminal Contempt Is the Appropriate Solution for Dealing With Steve Bannon
The U.S. House of Representatives recently voted to hold Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress. Bannon earned that distinction when he refused to comply with a congressional subpoena to provide testimony to a select committee...
By Chuck Rosenberg
October 29, 2021
What We Fear in the Wake of the Texas Abortion Law
On Sept. 1, Texas enacted an extreme law that effectively ended abortion care in the state. Since then, clinics in states on the western and northern borders have seen a dramatic increase in patient visits...
By Robin Marty and Leah Torres
September 28, 2021
My Father Was a Vocal Critic of Nicaragua's President. Now He's a Political Prisoner
My father, Francisco Aguirre-Sacasa, turned 77 this month. Normally, my entire family would gather somewhere in the States to celebrate his birthday with a late-summer cookout, a sheet cake and ice cream. This year, though,...
By Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
September 21, 2021
Why Must Women Wait for the Supreme Court to Decide What We Can Do With Our Bodies?
I knew what abortion was even before I knew how babies were made. As a child in the hot brick Baptist churches of Texas, I was told that there were women who threw babies in...
By Lyz Lenz
June 24, 2021
Michael Flynn's Attack on Democracy
Five years ago, would you have imagined that a retired three-star general would be calling for a coup in America at a convention of conspiracy theorists in Texas? This weekend, former Trump National Security Adviser,...
By Chrissy Houlahan and Jason Crow
June 2, 2021
The Surprising Political History of the Fight Against the Equal Rights Amendment
Discussion of the ERA often focuses on the way the New Right stopped ratification by the states in the 1970s. But earlier opposition to the proposed amendment involved a bipartisan and ideologically diverse coalition in Congress
By Rebecca de Wolf / History News Network
May 12, 2021
The Story Behind the Declaration of Independence's Most Memorable Line
How newspapers and written constitutions brought us "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"
By Akhil Reed Amar
May 7, 2021
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