The risk to free and fair elections has never been greater, and the GOP’s threats aren’t being met with sufficient opposition.

“When do we get to use the guns?” is the inevitable result of a constant flood of surreal conspiracies and opportunistic lies.

For many still reeling from the January 6 attack, Thursday’s threat renewed concerns about public service in an era of political violence.

Local election officials around the country are getting death threats. Many are quitting their jobs. The Justice Department needs to do something.

The former president’s lawyers rested their case in the Senate impeachment trial with a simple, ridiculous claim: He’s the real victim here.

Yet that’s the problem: Senate Republicans are anything but reasonable.

The Facebook COO’s denials about the platform’s role in the violence at the Capitol should be the last straw.

Pandemic be damned, the president intends to see out the conservative mission of cutting out America’s democratic heart.

Let there be no “both-sidesing” of the primary cause of American anxiety.

If you’re worrying that Democrats wouldn’t concede a Biden defeat, you’re just concern-trolling while American democracy wobbles.

In the Obama era, they resisted “presidential tyranny.” Now they want to help Trump crack American skulls in the streets.

In the end, it was always going to be about blood and soil and gun-toting vigilantes.

Ideologues of left and right have learned to stop worrying and love rhetorical violence.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, and the president has bunkered down.

"Civil war" rhetoric is not uncommon on the fringes of American political discourse. Now it’s also coming from the White House.

The far right fears nothing more than public humiliation.

Several major stories this week revealed deep truths about this political moment in America. None pertained to the TV actor.

In Greece, a mob assault on a liberal mayor offers a disturbing view of where the current uptick in right-wing extremism can lead.