Joe Biden should simply name what is true and what most Americans intuit about the president: He is a terribly broken man. Money and privilege spared him from the consequences that might have helped him develop a conscience. He does not show remorse >>>

Last night my wife and I were lying in bed. One of us said, “What if we lose?” Immediately, anxiety completely overwhelmed us.Call it liberal bedwetting; being afraid, unable to maintain our emotional hull-structures and psychological balance. Of... >>>

Trump has attacked diversity training, critical race theory, the 1619 project, and anything that reckons with America’s racist past.After a string of related tweets Tuesday, Trump issued an executive order banning federal contractors from conducting >>>

An expert explains originalism, the Roberts Court, and what a Justice Barrett might do.The 48-year-old Barrett was appointed by Trump to the appeals court in 2017, and was also reportedly a finalist for Justice Anthony Kennedy’s seat in 2018. She... >>>

Bill Barr is convinced the country is betraying its founding—and that it's up to him to stop it.This unprecedented pattern of conduct by the nation’s chief law-enforcement officer has brought a question to the minds of many people: Why does Bill >>>

Everyone has a “Trump.” No one has a good one. Like Cher, De Niro, or Walken, there is something distinctive about the way Donald Trump speaks that begs for impersonation, but also, it turns out, something intangible that makes a decent... >>>

“If you only look at COVID deaths, you’re actually missing the scale of the setback,” he said.In April 2018, I spoke with Bill Gates about two near certainties—that the world would eventually face a serious pandemic and that it was not prepared for... >>>

Trump, once again, did not commit to accepting the election results, and suggested throwing out mail ballots to ensure a “continuation” of power.Trump would not commit. “We’re going to have to see what happens,” he said. “We want to get rid of the... >>>

It’s not how we think of our fellow-citizens, but no matter who wins in November, the impulse will be very much alive in the country. What do they want?In high school civics we were taught that “American authoritarianism” was an oxymoron.... >>>

Tesla reportedly suffered a network outage Wednesday morning as hundreds of car owners filed complaints they were unable to connect their vehicles to the company's mobile app.Reports on DownDector.com saw rising spikes in Tesla owners claiming... >>>

Barton Gellman lays out in great detail how Trump might use chaos to steal a second term, or at least create a constitutional crisis.Sure, Trump can easily create and inflame fears of imaginary voter fraud among his followers, and can produce a... >>>

This is a flawed and self-contradictory argument, because the people making it are in fact dedicated to preserving the court’s power to overrule the democratic branches of government.TweetIn addition to not knowing what “majority” means, Pete... >>>

The president continues to provide evidence of his massive racism.There is nothing that can make the majority of conservatives who have embraced Trump admit he is a racist. (The exception being the openly white nationalist extremists who explicitly... >>>

There’s more to the judiciary than the culture wars.But in the American system, essentially every law and regulatory undertaking is subject to litigation and second-guessing by the courts. That means Supreme Court appointments have vast and... >>>

If the vote is close, Donald Trump could easily throw the election into chaos and subvert the result. Who will stop him?There is a cohort of close observers of our presidential elections, scholars and lawyers and political strategists, who find... >>>