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 first night of the GOP convention was the dying gasp of the party’s feeble crack at right-wing populism.

The RNC opened with two themes: Existence is under attack from radical Democrats, and adoring Donald Trump is the only hope.

A majority of the president’s base believes the coronavirus death toll is acceptable. What more needs to be said at this week’s convention?

The week’s lineup is further proof that the party’s survival depends on racist culture wars.

Most dictators rig elections to win. With his Postal Service gambit, Trump merely wants everybody to lose with him.

The ideology that Republicans love to hate is woven through the fabric of the country.

Scholars have long relied on correspondence to peer into the minds of America’s presidents. But what if the letters were written by someone else?

Why is Trump’s son-in-law meeting with “presidential candidate” Kanye West instead of bringing peace to the Mideast and saving America from the coronavirus?

Some politicos are fretting about post-election chaos. What about the pre-election chaos that Trump and his allies are creating right now?

Trump’s threat to delay the election over mail-in ballots is consistent with decades of anti-voter campaigns by the GOP.

While the pain of legislative dysfunction has never been more keenly felt, reforms that all sides agree upon are still possible.

James O’Keefe’s group is part of a sprawling campaign to delegitimize mail-in balloting in the fall—a campaign being led by the White House.

The GOP is mostly insulated from the consequences that voters might be inclined to dole out in November.

Trump’s reelection is coinciding with trends that might leave the GOP with its least gender-balanced legislature in years.

This band of anti-Trump conservatives may be viral hitmakers for the moment, but they have nothing to offer America’s future.

The birthplace of the conservative movement is now no Golden State for the GOP.

There has been a profound disconnect between the hagiography surrounding his death and the response to the radicalism he helped inspire.

With Republican candidates and Trump embracing the strange, child trafficking–fixated movement, it can no longer be dismissed as merely a conspiracy theory.