Campaign spending data from party-affiliated committees show that Democrats are playing offense in some surprising places.

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Gloria showed us that being a feminist means being a humanist. It is time to find our own mysterious path, but thankfully, An Unexpected Life can serve as a handy guidebook. Clara Bingham is a ...

In other words, today’s news is the final snapshot of the successes of the Biden administration. During its four years in office, the government beefed up subsidies for low- and moderate-income people ...

One in five voters who supported Donald Trump in 2024 now regrets their vote. Inflation and war are their biggest complaints.

Democracy’s defenders won round one, but Donald Trump has done plenty of damage to Americans’ faith in voting at home.

Could the Clerk of the House lead a midterm coup? Garrett Epps looks to 1863 and 1865 for warnings about our current crisis.

Many Democrats are hot to remake the Supreme Court. But it’s the lifetime appointment that just kept Trump from meddling with ...

In the 48 hours before 9/11, the Bush administration was insisting we spend enough on counterterrorism and not enough on missile defense.

One dismal morning in January 2001, I strode into a University of Oregon classroom to face 90 fresh-faced first-year law students. I had the unenviable task of explaining the “law” behind Bush v. Gore ...