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 ...

As she threw open the doors to 46 Amboy Street in Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood on the morning of October 16, 1916, 37-year-old Margaret Sanger must have known she would be arrested again. In ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

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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 ...