Once you give up the principle of equality before the law, you have given up the whole game.

Trump’s former appointees are profiting from their time in the White House—H.R. McMaster most of all.

Republicans are doing all they can to preserve their power at the expense of the democratic process.

Yes, the Civil War brought an end to the slave order of the South and the rule of the plantation oligarchs who embodied white supremacy. But the Northern victory was short lived — Southern ideals spread quickly to the West. It's all about America’s ongoing battle between oligarchy and democracy.

Russian fake news infiltrated our social-media feeds, and our own willful ignorance is to blame.

The framers envisioned a strong middle class to ground our republic. If it disappears, does our democracy go with it?

Why the left needs to build power, now.

We are now engaged not only in a political war, but also in a battle over the very concepts of reason and fact that the Enlightenment brought forth.

Those in the upper ranks of the Obama administration have an outdated worldview, shaped by memories of Munich and Yalta, Korea and Vietnam, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Berlin Wall.

While other conservatives say that the American state has become too powerful, Francis Fukuyama argues that it has grown too weak.