Almost a century ago, in a famous Supreme Court dissent, Justice Louis Brandeis provided an enduring definition of the role ...

The American political system today is indeed in crisis. Government function is in doubt, the administration has politicized and weaponized a previously independent justice system, judicial rulings ...

How did we reach this point? Millions of Americans are watching helplessly while President Donald Trump and the Republicans relentlessly dismantle and defund important government programs that are ...

Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris (Photo credit: Eddy "Precise" Lamarre for rolling out) Vice President Kamala Harris has returned to public life with a stark assessment of American ...

The Dark Money Game, the new two-part documentary from Alex Gibney, confirms the worst: America has all-but succumbed to the terminal cancer of corruption. It is difficult to say how much time is left ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The U.S. is in a new era of political violence — one that feels starker than any since the fraught days of 1968, ...

For a swath of the left cynical about the American political system, “libbing out” means indulging in hope. By Joseph Bernstein Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, is a democratic ...

In August 2020, amid COVID-19 lockdowns, George Floyd protests, and conspiracy theories that the entire U.S. electoral system was a sham, the University of Chicago political scientist John Mark Hansen ...

A conversation with Osita Nwanevu about the fatal flaws of our governing system, the need for a more egalitarian political economy, and his new book The Right of the People. There is no shortage of ...

Former Vice President Kamala Harris moaned Thursday in an interview with soon-to-be-axed lefty talk show host Stephen Colbert that the American political system is “broken” and suggested she wouldn’t ...