- July 22, 2016The GOP presidential nominee's acceptance speech was a litany of fear and resentment, a dog whistle to disaffected white Americans.
- July 21, 2016"There is nothing to stop a president from initiating action, even if unconstitutional," one scholar observes.
- July 21, 2016Several delegates to the platform drafting committee have deep financial ties to conservative industries.
- July 20, 2016Creating change requires understanding the power you have, and building a movement goes beyond protests.
- July 20, 2016Their convention is a negative roundelay of attacks without solutions and crankiness without hope.
- July 20, 2016The triumph of Trump has demonstrated the cost of the devil’s bargain that party elites — and the media — have accepted over the years.
- July 20, 2016America surely has problems, but the Republican Right tends to ignore its role in causing them and now — under President Obama — exaggerates how bad the situation is.
- July 19, 2016Bernie Sanders' supporters can learn a lesson from another populist revolution a century in the making.
- July 19, 2016Democrats are twice as likely as Republicans to be purged from the voter rolls in the state’s largest counties.
- July 18, 2016The convention city is a mirror of the nation's uncertain and inequitable economy.