While there is blame to go around, Trump and his Congressional enablers are overwhelmingly responsible for weakening the foundations of the republic. And the effects of America’s democratic decay are already being felt beyond its own borders.

Thinking about Brexit as a competition between cosmopolitanism and nationalism within Britain misses a much more important dimension: It’s the European Union that’s in crisis.

It’s not race or gender or even free speech. The real debate is about human nature.

The Trump impeachment has uncovered a host of issues that are not sufficiently clarified in the U.S. Constitution.

Amid bad faith efforts to block Bolton’s memoir, the public interest is clear: It lies in protecting legitimate secrets—and revealing presidential malfeasance in a timely manner. Two landmark cases help us understand how courts wrestle with and resolve such matters.

In the age of drones, football is war between individual men.

To renew democracy across the West, we need to restore voter ties to traditional parties. (A letter from the upcoming March/April 2020 print issue.)

A new book convincingly argues that Trump has altered the institution of the presidency in irreversible ways.

Between Greta Thunberg’s prophecies of doom and Donald Trump’s denial and inaction, the private sector is pioneering a sensible middle way on climate change.

Secretaries of State should be loyal to their Presidents, but Mike Pompeo has turned that virtue into a vice.