Czechoslovakia’s “Velvet Divorce” offers a model for dealing with America’s irreconcilable differences.

Politicians and pundits across the political spectrum warn of a return to the decade of stagflation, urban decay, and labor mutiny. Their solution? The failed policies of the 1970s.

Over the last half-century, economics has infiltrated parts of the federal government where it has no business intruding. It can be a useful tool for policymaking, but it’s become the only tool. It’s time for economics to back the hell off.

How John Roberts lost control of the Supreme Court

A new isolationist strain is gaining dominance in the GOP. The noninterventionist part is fine. But then there’s the admiration for Putin, the hatred of alliances, the hostility to NATO ...

The city is the first in the country to pass, and begin to implement, a reparations program. Changing laws to undo discrimination is one thing. But will white citizens really be willing to pay for it?

This spring, a virulent strain of bird flu ripped through U.S. farms. The public hardly noticed. That we could ignore the disease shows just how little we’ve learned about the origin of new viruses.

Republicans have been running circles around Democrats for decades. But finally the right has handed them a potent weapon. Will they recognize it and use it?

For their policies to succeed, Democrats need to tie their economic ideas to the broader ideals all Americans are taught to cherish.

The Buckeye State has grown redder and redder. The Democratic congressman could reverse that—and start to revive the Democrats’ working-class identity.

Young voters are utterly disillusioned. The question is whether president can turn that around by November.

Back in Minnesota, Emmer made his name as a fringe firebrand. Now head of the NRCC, he’s learned to mute his rhetoric—mostly—and is quietly climbing the ladder of House Republican leadership.

Democrats everywhere ran on climate in 2020. Now they’re practically running away from it.

The stakes are highest in states where the legislature and the governor’s mansion are held by different parties. How much will abortion rights motivate voters?

The Bakersfield Republican has everything it takes to rise to the top in today’s GOP: zero interest in policy, relentless thirst for power, and slavish loyalty to Trump. If this man becomes speaker of the House—look out, America.

For liberals, no state in the country feels more important in the November midterm elections than Georgia. Can Stacey Abrams and Raphael Warnock prevail?

The Democrat from the swingiest district in the country is basing her reelection campaign on investigating January 6 and taking on Trump.

Red states are using the Dobbs decision to reach into blue states to try to change our way of life. They want a culture war? Let’s give ’em one.

Kari Lake and other far-right candidates have latched onto a controversy in the Scottsdale school district whipped up by conservative mothers.

The long-predicted nationwide wave of lockouts is finally cresting. A report from New York City housing court