The Court was the last real line of defense for the right to access abortion in this country. With Kavanaugh’s confirmation, ...

The historic labor act faces unprecedented assaults in the Trump era. Here’s what that means for our democracy.

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In an era when sweeping demographic change has created a racial, economic, cultural, and political chasm between the generations, that old Groucho Marx riddle illuminates a paradox about America’s 74 ...

The 1896 Democratic Convention, where William Jennings Bryan was nominated as the Democratic presidential nominee. Why don’t Democrats, rather than Republicans, call themselves the “Grand Old Party”?

For more than a decade, American democracy has been in a steep decline. We have known for a long time that our democracy has become more polarized and dysfunctional since the slash and burn politics ...