Thomas Edsall

Opinion | Why Trump Still Rules the Republican Party  The New York Times

Opinion | Why Trump Still Has Millions of Americans in His Grip  The New York Times

Opinion | How the Storming of the Capitol Became a ‘Normal Tourist Visit’  The New York Times

Opinion | The Moral Chasm That Has Opened Up Between Left and Right Is Widening  The New York Times

Democracy is in trouble, but a lawless coup isn’t the real threat.

The drive to war is fueled by an utterly toxic mixture of deranged geopolitical ambitions and insoluble internal crisis.

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I propose a potentially useful exercise for Democrats.

by Neil H. Buchanan Even the most casual reader of Dorf on Law is, I suspect, immediately struck by the pessimism infusing much of what we...