Opinion | Jack Smith | Chris Christie | 2024 Election | GOP Primary | Georgia | Indictment | Trump indictment | Brad Raffensperger
Trump keeps getting charged with crimes. Should we still care?
Donald Trump
Whether or not a jury eventually finds Trump guilty or not guilty, the mere fact that a former president has been indicted sends a powerful message: No one is above the law.
Authors Alan Jenkins and Gan Golan have crafted a new graphic novel series offering a stark warning about how close the U.S. came to a fascist coup on Jan. 6, 2021.
The next two years will mark a return to chaos in government, as an empowered right wing takes over the House.
Opinion | Mike Pence | Insurrection | Fascism | January 6 | House Select Committee | January 6 Hearings | William Barr | Liz Cheney | Republican | Cassidy Hutchinson
Testifying against Trump in the Jan. 6 Committee hearings should not absolve his enablers of the harm they helped him inflict.
According to political analyst John Nichols, the House Select Committee hearings remind us that Trump was at the center of an attempted coup and, at the very least, that ought to make him ineligible for future elections.
Opinion | Polarization | Democracy | Media | Gerrymandering | Ukraine | 2000 Election | Partisan Divide
The decline of civil society has been well-documented, but its political turn poses a unique danger for the U.S.
Author and legal scholar Elie Mystal’s first book argues that the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights are deeply flawed, but that it’s still possible to use them to protect the rights of women and people of color.
Opinion | January 6 | Joe Biden | Kyrsten Sinema | Freedom to Vote Act | Insurrection | 2022 Midterms | Republicans | GOP | voting rights | Joe Manchin | John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act | Democrats | Congress | Jan. 6 | Voter Suppression
Voting rights reform has died an ignoble death in Congress. The way forward isn’t clear or inspiring, but at least we still have one.
A Trump-era rule requiring immigrants to remain in Mexico while awaiting their cases has caused suffering and human rights violations. The U.S. Supreme Court is now thwarting President Biden’s attempt to end the rule.
Opinion | Krysten Sinema | Joe Manchin | Supreme Court | Voting Rights Act | Joe Biden | Greg Abbott | 2020 Election | Brnovich | Arizona | Voter ID | Texas | Georgia | Voting | Republicans | Democracy | voting rights | Democrats
Democrats don’t seem too worried about the current Republican war on voting rights. They should be.
Opinion | Pennsylvania | H.R. 1 | H.R. 4 | Voter Suppression | Joe Biden | Black Voters | Arizona | Georgia | Republicans
The long struggle to secure voting rights enters a new stage, as Republicans across the country try to strip protections from state laws.
Instead of insisting on superlatives amidst spiking inequalities and insurgent fascism, we should be striving toward policies that are socially responsible and work to establish decent baselines.
Initial progress in Biden’s first weeks may be overshadowed by rising obstructionism, and timidity in his own party.
I was unexpectedly emotional watching the Biden-Harris inauguration. Then I remembered the last time I felt so bowled over by basic decency.
Analysis | Insurrection | Coup | Grassroots Activism | Nonviolence | Democracy | United States | U.S. Capitol
Activists prepared for months, expecting Trump to steal the election. They were right, and he failed.
Not if it sends a message to future presidents.
The U.S. finds itself in a different place and time than postwar Germany, but the challenge is similar.
The human “fight or flight” response gives demagogues like Trump a tool for political manipulation. But we could replace oppression with a system of care.
Opinion | GOP | 25th Amendment | Impeachment | White Supremacy | Joe Biden | Washington DC | U.S. Capitol | Insurrection | Republicans
We can’t afford to wait 13 days until Trump is gone. The time to act is now.
This country was founded on violence and desecration. If you want it to be better, prove it.
Opinion | 2020 Election | gender violence | sexual assault | patriarchy | abuse survivors | 2016 Election | Joe Biden | Kamala Harris
I managed to rebuild my sense of self and safety starting the day I ran away from my father—only to then watch “him” win the White House in the guise of Donald Trump.
No matter who wins the election, the results were not the repudiation of Trump's racism, authoritarianism, and corruption that America needed.
Opinion | Electoral College | Joe Biden | 2020 Election | Early Voting | Election 2020 | Voter Suppression | COVID-19
There are some positive signs, but otherwise this is still the biggest trash fire of an election since… well, since 2016.
Trump’s executive order can’t replace the protections and systems in the Affordable Care Act.
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