When host Garry Kasparov created the Renew Democracy Initiative in 2017, the founding manifesto warned that “the liberal-democratic order is under attack from within and without.” Eight years later, ...

Latent forces in American politics are being unleashed by the historic criminal conviction of Donald Trump. They range from the mundane to the menacing to the malevolent. Right-wing anger over the ...

Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville said in a Monday op-ed that President Trump “has broken the cardinal rule in American politics” amid economic anxiety about the president’s tariffs. “In ...

There is a pervasive feeling—rising up from the precarious working poor, through the illusory middle class, and now even brushing the edges of the elite—that something in America is broken. The ...

Two assassination attempts on President Trump. The assassination of a Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband and the wounding of others. The shooting death of a top healthcare executive. The killing ...

Today, we celebrate our independence from the British and the establishment of our own political institutions. It just so happens that there is also an important election taking place today: British ...

Opinion: Even as people fight for human rights, calls for civility amid public protests of Trump staffers in their private lives feel like little more than appeasement What a difficult life it must be ...

American political culture is broken. Acts of political violence, like the recent killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk and its aftermath, are disturbing indicators of how fractured and ...

The killing of Charlie Kirk, a right-wing youth activist and an ally of MAGA nationalism and U.S. President Donald Trump, has terribly roiled American politics. Many observers note that the potential ...

During my years as a Ph.D. student, I found myself for the first time in a familiar routine. For four years, my life settled into a predictable rhythm—weekly meetings with my supervisor, seminars to ...

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, ...