Tim Miller shares the story of a Venezuelan family — a pregnant mother, father, and their 7-year-old daughter — who have spent weeks detained at the Dilley detention facility in Texas, despite doing everything the Trump administration has asked of immigrants seeking to leave the country.

Tolerance for behavior like Platner’s is tied to a wrongheaded theory of the male working class. Zohran Mamdani illustrates a different path

The outrageous assault on birthright citizenship should prompt us to reflect on the fragility of democratic progress - and our own responsibility to defend it

On the state of Democracy Americana after six months, the pitfalls of the newsletter economy – and what the future holds for this independent publication

Longtime Cato Institute head Ed Crane died this month. Many in the movement he helped build have trouble seeing Trump clearly.

Regardless of how people vote, the chances of a Democrat Government coming to power in 2029 is now virtually nil, argues Brynn Tannehill

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Some fights are worth having no matter the outcome

In the wake of the successful decapitation strike on Venezuela by U.S. special forces, Donald Trump has been talking a lot about attacking Mexico, buying Greenland (while not ruling out an invasion), ...

Trump keeps threatening, no matter how many times his victims ask him to stop.

Let’s discard some stubborn misconceptions about Trump’s support and what happened in the 2024 election that are obscuring our understanding of a profound de-alignment

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One year after the election: What we can say with certainty about the state of the Trumpist assault, where uncertainty lies, and where America might go from here