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The bigger story is Donald Trump’s appalling unfitness for office. He tried to overturn a legitimate election and is a felon

“How is this impartial justice?" questioned former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance

The ousting by extremists of House speaker Kevin McCarthy is a sign of the GOP’s willingness to test the limits of US democracy

In a recent podcast episode, Mary Trump claimed that the Fulton County case is not ironclad.

Who is more dangerous — Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis?

Today's news media simply refuses to recognize that the story of democracy in America is changing

As Trump supporters call for civil war and American institutions of law and government teeter on the brink, threatening to spread extremist influences throughout the democratic world, Waleed Aly and Scott Stephens propose that the problem underlying this crisis is the loss of civility itself.

Dana Milbank of the Washington Post does not fall victim to false equivalency. He knows the GOP is a threat to democracy

It's gotten to the point where even the most obviously nonpartisan issues that Americans ought to be able to address cooperatively and rationally have fallen victim to the country's culture of extreme political polarization.