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

In order to save our democracy, we must not merely defeat the Republican Party.

How the North Carolina GOP's anti-democratic chicanery became the national party's playbook for electoral theft

A toothless profile of the racist pundit reveals how mainstream journalism is still failing to cover politics in the Trump era.

The American right's unyielding ardor for federal power

If the party wants to win beyond 2020, it has to defeat deficit hypocrisy now.