Before President Donald Trump came along, Norquist was the nation’s most powerful enforcer of GOP orthodoxy, at least when it ...

On March 25, the veteran film producer Erika Dilday spoke at a documentary conference in Copenhagen, on a panel addressing ...

Each dry season, farmers carve up and burn hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of acres in one of the world’s largest ...

Political pressure must be brought to bear—through the courts, the press, and the states, but also applied to legislators ...

Ed Martin’s appearances on Russian state television should end his nomination to be a U.S. attorney.

Trump forced out two FBI directors because they would not follow his orders: James Comey at the beginning of Trump’s first ...

Yes, the U.S. has the larger consumer economy. No, that won’t be enough to avoid major (and majorly self-inflicted) pain.

And so Trump has opened up a trapdoor beneath the American legal system. This trapdoor is wide enough to swallow the entire ...

Before the vaccine, the virus spread in a world very different from today’s.

When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.

As the Trump administration talks itself into refusing to comply with judicial orders, federal judges are moving closer to ...

A portrait of life at a fast-food restaurant shows that there’s both dignity and drudgery in all kinds of labor.