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"We cannot be at ease in America. History is pushing us; the present is demanding us; the future is calling us."

What old-school civics taught us about checks and balances isn't working. The absence of a will to fight, to defend the institutions of liberal democracy, is breathtaking.

The president and his cronies are committed to rolling progress back to the Stone Age. The effects could outlast his second term.

Musk, Trump, and Vance lead a fascist takeover of the US.

The ongoing internal witch hunt led by the far-right provocateur is a sign of a GOP crack-up.

Gimmicks like Trump's economically ignorant, politically jingoistic, and personally self-serving tariff agenda won't help workers in the US or abroad.

The litigation would afford schools a high-profile venue in which to detail the Trump administration's lawlessness and aggression.

She's a 26-year-old social media star challenging a progressive stalwart in a congressional district she doesn't live in yet. We asked her why.

On this episode of The Time of Monsters, David Klion on the Senate minority leader's revealing new book.

The president's tariff war is also a constitutional crisis.