Trump’s GOP is becoming increasingly defined by white Christian nationalism and exclusion — and they’re no longer feeling the need to disguise any of it.

Once a constitutional principle is treated as negotiable for one group — Latino communities in this case — it becomes weaker for all of us.

Once upon a time, Americans worried about politicians being bought. Under Trump, the most powerful office in the country is now up for sale.

Real political change in America doesn’t come from the top; it never has. It comes from the bottom, from ordinary people resisting in big and small ways.

This isn’t a natural downturn. It’s not a war economy. It’s the fallout from one man’s economic choices and his refusal to change course.

How has this fringe idea gained so much traction despite its deep unpopularity? Because the movement has stopped pretending it needs democracy.

Large corporations can throw their weight around to win special treatment from the administration. Small businesses don’t have that kind of leverage.

If speech can be effectively chilled in these critical intellectual spaces, it makes it much easier to silence the broader public.

Forty years after the release of Atwood’s seminal novel, we are witnessing the echoes of real-life horror stories that inspired her to tell the tale.

Every crack in the armor of federalism, the philosophy around which this country was formed at its independence, brings us closer to autocracy.