The United States has slid into competitive authoritarianism. The slide has been modest and remains reversible—but it is real. Even after Donald Trump, American democracy will remain fragile.

Is the one we don’t run

When gotchas go disastrously wrong.

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The resignation adds to the setbacks to the most sweeping effort by the Justice Department to fulfill the president’s desire to take revenge against the federal officials who have investigated him.

An appeals court is weighing whether a judge can continue investigating whether the Trump administration illegally flouted an order blocking the deportation of planeloads of Venezuelan migrants to El ...

As GOP alarm about the midterms worsens, a progressive data researcher explains the deeper reasons voters are so angry and dissatisfied right now—especially in red states with big Senate races.

Trump is following one of the Republican Party’s longstanding traditions: Burning the economy to the ground.

ProPublica uncovers the White House's extensive efforts to influence mail-in ballot processing, leading to a year-long drama that highlights critical democratic and legal challenges.

TV ads featuring Trump are expanding nationally, prompting bipartisan questions over whether they comply with restrictions on taxpayer-funded publicity.

A CIP Election Rumor Rundown

This month has seen the United Nations issue two reports alleging the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity by the United States in two theatres of engagement. In one…

(RNS) — A group of Reformed pastors and influencers has wedded old-school segregationist theology with the hypermasculinity of the manosphere and the savvy of the attention economy to preach and sell ...

Trump is proof that cheaters often win.

GREENSBORO, N.C. — In July 1979, a North Carolina Ku Klux Klan leader named Joe Grady summoned two FBI agents to a Waffle House to warn them “about possible violence in the future.”Earlier that month,...

The Science Victory Fund fuels the victories required in this fall's Congressional elections to stop Trump and save science.

Diesel prices have never been higher. US President Donald Trump contends that’s not because of the war he started nearly seven months ago.

Jared Kushner represents the kind of Washington figure for whom public office serves as a means to extraordinary wealth.