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And why Democrats shouldn’t try to “out-cowboy” Donald Trump. By Patrick Healy and Tressie McMillan Cottom Produced by Vishakha Darbha President Trump’s outsize performance of masculinity has won him ...

Get ready for a 2016 redux. The indictment of former FBI Director James Comey made public on Thursday is likely to put on display, yet again, the blockbuster political discourse around the FBI ...

This essay appears in our Fall 2025 issue under the headline “What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Political Violence.” Georges Sorel, writing in 1908, gave a very different account of violence ...

You might be imagining someone who takes their time considering the candidates and their positions on the issues, who generally has faith in the political system, who sometimes votes for Republicans ...