The Democratic Party cannot credibly defend women’s rights and the rule of law while standing behind Graham Platner.

The party cannot credibly defend women’s rights and the rule of law while standing behind a Senate nominee accused of rape.  Founded in 1969, the Washington Monthly is an independent media ...

Trump has floated ways to disrupt the 2026 midterms, from mail voting crackdowns to ICE at the polls. Here’s why voters still have power.

Fifty years after the Bicentennial, American democracy is imperiled—but the country’s progress since 1976 offers real reasons ...

July 4 is America’s birthday and the first anniversary of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act and the Medicaid cuts that followed.

The Supreme Court's recent rulings and the "Great American State Fair" reflect twin Trumpian visions of who belongs in ...

SCOTUS upheld bans on transgender athletes in women’s sports, sidestepping evidence and narrowing its own logic on trans discrimination.

The history of semicentennial presidential oratory is limited but Trump’s July 4 semiquincentennial remarks will be a low point in the canon.

Roberts Slays Trump’s Ludicrous Birthright Citizenship Order. While Thomas tries to justify caste, Jackson makes it clear the ...

The 47th president has smashed norms, enriched himself, and even bungled cleaning the Reflecting Pool. But July 4 still survives.

A 5-4 court allowed mail-in ballots postmarked on election day to be counted, but exaggerated fears of “voter fraud” loomed over the ruling.

Democratic voters are turning on party leaders as anger over Trump, Israel-Palestine, and elite impunity fuels a wave of primary upsets.