What You Need to Know About the Republican Tax Plan
What’s in it, what it means and why Republicans passed it.
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How and Why Americans Switch Parties
Views about cultural and demographic change play a big role.
Why Millennials Are More Sympathetic to Big Government
Young Americans feel the deck has been stacked against them. They look to government for solutions.
Three Ways Republicans Could Undermine Russia Probe
The president could try to fire Robert Mueller. Republicans try to discredit his investigation.
Trump Contradicts Chief Diplomat on North Korea
Unlike Rex Tillerson, the president is not prepared to hold talks without preconditions.
Why There Is So Little Attention for the Islamic State’s Defeat
In part because the caliphate was never as big a threat as Republicans made it out to be.
Trump Accelerates Demise of American World Order
Donald Trump hasn’t ushered in a post-American world yet. Not for lack of trying.
Trump Repudiated in Alabama Senate Election
College graduates, minorities, young voters and women turned out in droves to defeat Donald Trump’s ally.
An Old Conflict in New Form
Today’s political crises may simply be the latest battles in the war between the Enlightenment and Romanticism.
For the Future of the Democratic Party, Look to California
California’s Democrats are transforming the twentieth-century welfare state into an “opportunity state”.
Republicans Broke American Politics in These Three Ways
Republicans demonized government, radicalized their voters and created a conservative echo chamber.
Trump Apologists Muddy Waters After Flynn Pleads Guilty
The president’s defenders focus on collusion in order to distract from the many other scandals.
Tax Reforms Are a Republican Betrayal
It seems Republicans only care about the debt and about process when Democrats are in power.
The Trends That Gave Us Trump — And What to Do About Them
Many of the trends that led to Donald Trump’s presidency are intractable, but there are things Americans can do.
Russians Were All Over Trump’s Campaign
Nearly everybody around Donald Trump was talking to the Russians in the course of the 2016 campaign.