To win the war over the Constitution, the justice’s hollow originalist pretenses must be unmasked—and countered with new and forceful legal arguments.

The court’s conservatives seem eager to take apart the mechanics of liberal governance, but they’re having commitment issues.

In the lives of women from Alice Neel to Ursula Le Guin, motherhood was entwined with a quest to make art.

A new report on corporate excess shows how the explosion of stock buybacks is exacerbating economic inequality.

A National Refining Company could lower gas prices without giving up on climate targets.

Trump clearly participated in a coup. It’s less clear that Nixon ordered the Watergate break-in 50 years ago. Let’s look at the evidence.

Congress is planning to throw more money at school “security” as part of the bipartisan gun deal.

With a genius for understatement and formal restraint, Gunn wrote some of the most powerful poetry of the AIDS crisis.

Despite the attempted coup, Congress hasn’t acted with urgency to fix the broken law that Trump tried to exploit.

The senator from Washington state hopes to address the urgent needs of working families—and shift perceptions of a Democratic Party that’s struggled to fulfill its promises.

The former NFL star is a serial fabulist, MAGA cultist, and as stupid as they come.

He always danced on the razor’s edge between authority and freedom—until he stopped dancing and embraced the dark side.

In this TNR Live discussion, editor Michael Tomasky and three panelists discuss threats to democracy—from Trump 2024 to the crumbling international order.

With a new president, and hard-won commitments for survivors of the sex abuse scandal that shook the faithful, the organization takes a first halting step toward healing.

We need to ground climate discourse in the present, not the future.

The current political order may have proven a failure. But neither party has presented an alternative yet.

Why are Democrats playing cat and mouse with student debtors?

The larger story it’s telling about Trump’s plot to steal the election is much more important than supplying a steady diet of fresh scoops.

The Michigan state senator’s floor speech against Republican attacks went viral. Now she’s determined to turn the state blue.

A bipartisan bill providing enhanced security for Supreme Court justices and their families marks the end of an era when they could move about Washington with relative anonymity.