Harris would expand early voting and vote-by-mail, discourage partisan gerrymandering, and adopt policies leading to higher turnout. Trump’s obsession with election “integrity” is narrow, used most ...

How deregulation and private equity have gutted the U.S. freight rail system—and with it, the promise of America’s industrial ...

Online sports gambling companies use sophisticated and deceptive techniques to exploit problem gamblers. The same ...

The Supreme Court,” Frederick Douglass told a civil rights meeting in 1883, “is the autocratic point in our national ...

Russia’s identity, not its security or the fear of NATO, has historically been the main driver of Moscow’s aggression toward ...

A new biography of Woodrow Wilson puts the 28th president’s racism and sexism at the center of its narrative—and his ...

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Jonathan Alter takes us inside the hush money trial that made Donald Trump the first ex-president felon in American history.

Dobbs was a disaster. A national abortion ban would make it worse, but a MAGA White House could install judges ready to take ...

Although it has received relatively little American attention, few global stories are more significant than the rapid rise of ...

Inspectors general have fought for accountability in U.S. government for decades, with varying success. They will be prime ...

The system of checks and balances devised by the founders didn't envision all three branches being enthralled by a leader ...