Trump’s win comes after a campaign in which he consistently targeted immigrants, transgender youth, and other vulnerable communities with hateful rhetoric. He also threatened retribution against dissidents and political opponents. I know that many...
Trump won because the opposition party is committed to ancien régime restoration in a country that desperately wants change. While the presidential election wasn’t called until early Wednesday morning, by midnight the overwhelming evidence...
Our nation faces the serious threat of electing Donald Trump for a second term despite his willingness, even enthusiasm, for gutting vital democratic norms. What appears to be a glitch in the U.S. electoral...
The agony for Democrats wasn’t just that the vice president lost. It was also, to many women, that for the second time in a decade a Democratic woman had lost to Donald Trump. Kamala...
Donald Trump’s performance in the 2024 election surpassed expectations, with the candidate winning the key battleground states of Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia and picking up larger shares of more diverse segments of the...
Donald Trump’s mythical narrative of decline and decay seeks to replace our national origin story: that this country is “dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” In his third consecutive bid...
Timothy Snyder said the former president’s recent rhetoric is all about one thing. Yale history professor Timothy Snyder, who is an expert on authoritarianism, this weekend argued that all of former President Donald Trump’s...
Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump’s suggestion Thursday that former Rep. Liz Cheney should stand “with nine barrels shooting at her” cast a menacing new shadow over the final days of the presidential race, stoking...
It doesn’t matter if you want to call it a hate rally or a Nazi rally or an authoritarian Lollapalooza. Doesn’t matter if you want to call the speakers unhinged or ill-mannered or fascistic....
here was a time when Black Republicans like Frederick Douglass championed the cause of racial justice. They were the “progressives” of their day. None were perfect, but most had a sense of integrity. For...