Matt Ford

@fordm

Thanks to gerrymandering, Congress’ lower chamber is a distorted representation of the American people. Here’s a remedy.

The Senate majority leader is poisoning a bipartisan effort to increase stimulus checks to $2,000—and foreshadowing his tactics under a Biden administration.

If Trump had been just 10 percent more competent, he might not have lost the White House.

If Ted Cruz and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have the same complaint, then things must be really broken.

It’s looking as if Joe Biden might not follow in the footsteps of his supereffective predecessor. Sad!

The attorney general could not deliver the corrupt boons the president sought, but it was not for want of trying.

Who says the president-elect isn’t a political innovator?

The president’s raggedy gang of dead-enders are still pressing for the election to be overturned in increasingly extravagant ways.

Good governance and political ethics have taken a beating in recent decades, but Peach State voters will have the chance to reverse that trend.

Under cover of Covid-19, the high court’s conservative bloc is dreaming up some radical ideas about religious freedom and public health.

Donald Trump is taking lame-duck pardons to obscene new levels, but he had a boost from his predecessors.

Trump may not be able to extend his reign, but he can aid and abet his party by further curtailing the right to vote.

The president’s attempts to undo the election result have largely been a farce, but the lasting damage to our civic fabric is no laughing matter.

A jury spared Calvin McMillan’s life, but a judge sentenced him to death anyway. Will the Roberts court save or condemn him?

The South Carolina senator seems determined to go down in history as the ultimate Trump dead-ender.

Amy Coney Barrett’s ascension to the high court could have an immediate, and lasting, impact on how the United States governs public health crises.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority will reign for decades to come, but one of its members can only talk about defeat.

Voters could have given Joe Biden the option to hold the high court in check. Instead, they’ve unleashed its conservative supermajority.

How Biden treats his predecessor could determine the fate of American democracy

While it’s unlikely that Trump will extend his reign by means of any of the strategies he’s deploying, the damage he could do to America is real.