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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 ...

James Wilson’s vision of a Constitution rooted in the people anticipated Lincoln, Reconstruction, and modern constitutional ...

DSA's recent string of left-wing primary upsets has been framed as a revolt against Democratic moderates. But the defeated were progressives.

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

Even this Supreme Court is unlikely to embrace Trump’s efforts to undo birthright citizenship, but if it did, it would be ...

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