Julia Azari

A good event for the upper tier of candidates, a bad one for Biden, and a forgettable one for the ones you’ve already forgotten.

He sounds a lot more disjunctive than transformative.

Biden painted Trump as a threat to American values. This strategy might be tougher than he thinks.

The novelist E.L. Doctorow once wrote, “One cannot consider the U.S. Constitution without getting into an argument with it.” The sparse text of Article II, which establishes the executive branch,...

New issue priorities will be a prominent theme for Democrats heading into 2020.

Three gaps help us understand the politics of the wall, the shutdown, and the national emergency declaration.

What Bush’s legacy tells us about the modern presidency.

It used to be about rejecting partisanship. Not anymore.

It has the potential to strengthen partisanship in important ways.

The executive branch is making a lot of people nervous lately. On April 13, President Trump ordered missile strikes in Syria without congressional authorization. He’s reputedly looking into the...

Were we even asking the right questions a year ago?

Republican elites lost control of the primary, and rank-and-file voters don’t care.

Reducing a white supremacist to the features of his harmless life obscures the horror his ideas can unleash.

Or is the problem something else?

It won’t be like John Tyler and Andrew Johnson. It will probably be worse.

The Republican health bill is dead for now. The political confusion remains.

What we need is more expertise and experience, not less.

We deserve to know who our president is.

But it’s not just about polarization.

There is no nonpartisan, apolitical mechanism to evaluate abuses of power and remove a president from office.