We have built a culture that views a death in the I.C.U. as a failure.

If Democrats can embrace what affordability is really about, they might do even more than win elections.

Pillars of business and civil society gave in to Trump in shocking succession. Even when capitulation made no sense.

The Republican fringe is becoming the Republican mainstream.

A period of global dominance has ended in plain sight.

Nothing has so thoroughly highlighted his indefatigable petulance.

Trump’s recent kerfuffle with the press is a preview of his next era.

Intractable divides between the secular and the religious pose a bigger problem for the country than any external threat.

LEAWOOD, Kansas (RNS) — While Democrats have long been considered a longshot for statewide races in Kansas, the Rev. Adam Hamilton's candidacy has proven unexpectedly competitive.

A surprising number of pastors are running as Democrats this year, challenging Americans’ assumptions about politics and faith.

The president fantasizes about a capital city full of memorials—to himself.

When the president is frustrated, he lashes out at friends harder than he does enemies.

Systemic, ritualized dishonesty undid the Cambridge professor.

The conservative legal movement doesn’t consider the Supreme Court’s recent ruling to be the final word on the Fourteenth Amendment. And it already has a playbook for overturning it.

“Furious,” the new police procedural on Hulu, turns out to be the perfect thriller for a post-Epstein world.

Hoping to break a 94-year losing streak, Kansas Democrats have turned to Adam Hamilton, a Methodist pastor whose mood may not match his party’s.

Trump’s fantasy-reality problem is deepening.

If Western supporters of the Palestinians want to help Gaza, denounce Hamas.

She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.

It really is an environmental plague. Those impacts look different in different places; in dry areas, for instance, the use of water is egregious, and its effect on electric rates will vary from one j...

He lovingly paints immigrants, praises free trade and diplomacy, and rues the coarsening of American politics. Why won’t he talk about Donald Trump?

The ferocity of the response to Jon Ossoff reveals something deeper about the world of Trump supporters.

Democratic socialists are getting more of the attention, but Democratic Christians have also had significant victories in this year’s primaries—and they could prove more influential in the midterm ele...

The Rev. Dr. Lovett Weems Jr. unpacks the recent trend of ordained ministers seeking a common good by running for political office.

As the war with Iran drags on, the president is in disagreement with the vice president, military leaders, and long-standing American allies.

Is Kansas just the beginning?

The president’s recent rant is a sign of serious dysfunction in the Oval Office.

As Donald Trump faces one humiliation after another, he is attacking those he blames.

This is how we decide who we are and who we want to be.

The president seems less willing to let go of $1.8 billion than his pick for attorney general.

Like Tom Cruise in the movie, the defense secretary appears stuck in his past.

A president who thought there were no limits to his power has discovered several, leaving him more frustrated and erratic.

The President promised to end what had been a quarter century of forever wars in the Middle East. Now the U.S. is mired in an intractable conflict of his own making.

Occupation is a hassle. Large countries have many new ways to control small ones.

Has the court learned nothing?

The Trump White House and its history police want us all to live in their chosen bubble, immune from instability or perceived disorder.

White people don’t own the accomplishments of ancient Greece.

(RNS) — After decades of watching Democrats dodge the God question, I think they finally have an answer.

You can’t post your way out of a war.

Every politician does some pandering, but few do it as clumsily, or with such evident disdain for their own supporters, as the vice president.

It’s a vibe shift.

The quick-fix fantasies of the world’s strongmen.

The war in Iran has dealt a serious blow to the idea that the president can slip out of any bind easily.