For months, the Arizona senator has stymied the Democrats’ agenda, dragged down her party’s reelection hopes, and earned the ire of her supporters. We still don’t know why.

The conservative plot to suppress the Black vote has relied on racist caricatures, then and now.

Thank the wonks who think financializing nature can save it.

Britain elects clown as prime minister. Clown attends parties. Circus turns on clown. What does clown do next?

Does the all-but-certain promise of a “yes” vote from Graham—along with Jim Clyburn’s support—make Michelle Childs the odds-on favorite?

In his attack on Black elected officials, Trump is harkening back to the worst of post-Reconstruction America.

Wastewater is a crucial epidemiological tool for tracking Covid-19. It’s only going to get more important as climate change accelerates.

It is tempting to harness “Civilization and Its Discontents” as a guide to our contemporary political morass, but doing so may obscure its most valuable message.

The CNN executive’s commitments to “The Trump Show” wrecked his network—and did lasting damage to the country.

It’s about overtime pay, a crucial leg of the New Deal that’s vital to a robust middle class. And the business lobby—and maybe a certain West Virginia senator—are in the way.

The former president has a critical race theory about the prosecutors investigating his various malfeasances.

The Keystone State is the party’s most likely chance at flipping a Senate seat. But Dems are looking at four months of a grueling and potentially rough primary.

Thursday’s Senate Banking Committee confirmation hearing is shaping up to be a contentious fight over the Fed’s power to fight climate change.

Vladimir Putin has driven Republicans and Democrats into one another’s arms.

Lea Ypi’s memoir recounts Albania’s troubled transition to democracy.

The president’s absence from social media was hailed as a relief, but now it’s occluding his increasing derangement.

Despite what Republican critics would have you believe, the president’s candidates to replace Breyer are eminently qualified.

His identity was long unknown—until the FBI arrested him earlier this year. Now everyone in the publishing industry is asking, What motivated him?

Legislation with bipartisan support might bring more natural gas online, further imperiling climate targets.

Some actors go to extremes to get into character. It wasn’t meant to be that way.