Osita Nwanevu

While not without some sour notes, the president’s State of the Union was sufficiently vigorous, surprisingly unconventional, and impressively partisan.

Tom Wolfe was no radical.

Weeks after the midterm elections delivered a putative referendum on the former president and his future, barely anything has changed.

It’s not clear that the president even has a plan to pass the kind of legislation that would earn him comparisons to FDR.

How movies about the political system fell in love with cynicism and messaging

Proponents of “popularism” believe they have a plan to rescue the party’s electoral hopes, but they may have arrived too late.

We ascribe too much meaning to the early years of the republic.

Everything you think you know about how our democracy functions is about to change.

If we lose the fight to protect voting rights, we'll lose everything else, too.

Their belief that this surreal conspiracy has arisen because of the poor education of its adherents is based in classism, not reality.

The GOP’s efforts to undermine our elections did not begin this week, and they were heavily subsidized by some of America’s best-known firms.

The former president seems unable to reckon with the failures of his presidency and diagnose the Republican Party’s incurable nihilism.

There’s no reason why a rigged Supreme Court should have the final say on the law of our land.

Trump’s opponents are so concerned that he might steal the election that they have forgotten to worry that he might simply win it.

Americans are slowly, but surely, growing tired of broad societal injustices—and less susceptible to the right’s mechanisms of racial resentment.

Ezra Klein’s flawed diagnosis of the divisions in American politics

In order to save our democracy, we must not merely defeat the Republican Party.

We've taken the former vice president's boldest, newest idea and streamlined it for McKinsey-level efficiency.

Dave Chappelle, Shane Gillis, and other alleged victims would rather scold their critics than come up with fresh material.

A splintered conservative movement slouches toward authoritarianism, thanks to—of all things—drag queens at the library.