Spraying the site with orange cornstarch paint is irritating but temporary. What enrages people is their feeling of impotence in the face of problems they can’t fully acknowledge.

The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian tells editor Michael Tomasky that we’ll save liberalism by saving democracy first.

Is the American experiment doomed?

A short homage to The New Republic’s longtime illustrator and caricaturist

America never really was liberal, and that’s not the right fight anyway. The fight now is for democracy.

Is the creed that’s always reexamining itself up to the task of stopping authoritarianism? In a word—yes.

Liberalism has saved this country from the forces of reaction before. Is it up to the task today?

The answer is simple: policies that reflect homespun values and stick up for people getting the short end of the stick.

This magazine’s own history reflects liberalism’s halting progress. Can it, and we, do better?

Needed: a liberalism that ceases to fear itself.

We are vastly outnumbered, but our record of accomplishment is formidable. Today, though, the task before us is as grave as ever.

A new book reveals what Donald Trump thinks about the megastar.

A new history argues that illiberalism is not a backlash but a central feature from the founding to today.

There have always been two Americas. One based in religious zeal, mythology, and inequality; and one grounded in rule of the people and the pursuit of equality. This next election may determine which one prevails.

How Americans lost faith in the possibility of self-government

But the future could belong to us.

His muddled defense of liberalism comes with a heavy dose of disdain for the left.

The essays in “Bland Fanatics” trace today’s crises to a long history of violent colonial oppression.

The republic’s survival depends on it.

How a group of Manhattan liberals used the language of “community” to evict people living in temporary housing from their neighborhood.