Forget Trump. It's the people who paved the way for him who seem uncomfortably familiar to an expert on pre-Nazi Germany.

We spoke with Robert P. Jones, whose American Values Survey studies the role that religion, culture and the economy play in informing voters' decisions.

The prolific writer and activist discusses how she keeps faith while change moves slowly along.

“The interview seemed to go well,” one grad recalls, up until the moment when the interviewer looked at her resume. “She said, ‘Your degree isn’t any good.’”

Readers express concern that the Fourth Estate is in serious trouble -- and what that might mean for our democracy.

Someone once told me: “You are probably a part of a small percentage of moms and dads who are legitimate in their need.”

Trump’s America would expel or marginalize an overwhelming majority of Americans.

Trumpism is not a program or an ideology. It is an attitude or pose that feeds off of, and then reinforces, widespread anger and alienation.

Perhaps there was a time when Republicans and Democrats more or less shared good values like compassion, tolerance, charity and empathy for the less fortunate. Obviously, things are different now.

If voters suddenly understood issues and facts, would we live in a democratic Camelot? Until 1988, no one knew.