The Democratic senator has survived in West Virginia by casting himself as a champion of working people. Will his fixation on bipartisanship prevent him from living up to the role?

What’s really behind the right’s war against Silicon Valley

And the press shouldn’t pretend they do.

The president may well be a liability for Republicans, but the GOP belongs to him now, and no one can change that.

Why the Republican Party’s “performance art” excuse for undermining the election rings hollow

Trump may still lose the 2020 election. But his appeal is surprisingly, dismayingly resilient.

Can the prodigal son keep the party going?

In the Trump era, long-time GOP operatives are pretending to be tortured moderates. Why do journalists keep falling for it?

Joni Ernst’s reelection campaign may be an object lesson in what it takes for a woman to win in today’s GOP.

Big business claims to care about climate change, but it has funded the very denialism and conspiracy-mongering that fuels Trump’s Republican Party.

Laura Loomer is a “proud Islamophobe” and QAnon supporter. She’s also a Republican nominee for Congress.

A rambling convention speech underlined the core of his campaign: He needs violence and destruction to win reelection.

It isn’t just that the party has surrendered to Trump. It’s also because its policies are deeply unpopular.

The Republican Party could be ready to discard climate denial. But you might not like what comes next.

The deep roots of today’s anti-Progressive revolt

How a new class of outsider experts is exploiting institutional failures and destabilizing knowledge

Ezra Klein’s flawed diagnosis of the divisions in American politics

Why the GOP is poised to create large-scale voting chaos this year

The hidden dynamic that’s transformed our politics—and will loom large in the 2020 election

The American right’s doomed quest to rid itself of Trumpism