As political actors, the couple are living exemplars of the Dunning-Kruger effect, a psychological phenomenon that leads incompetent people to overestimate their ability because they...
The latest edition of “Freedom in the World,” Freedom House’s flagship report, has just been released. For the second year in a row, the United...
We’re living through an unprecedented breakdown in America’s ability to function like a normal country.
The Democratic primary season could be a chance to hash out big, forward-looking ideas.
This moment, where conservatives are actually competing with liberals to find ways to free at least some prisoners, is the culmination of a transformation on...
There is no way to quantify exactly what this barrage of disinformation and manipulation did to American politics. But it should be obvious that what...
There are plenty of Democrats who are ready to take on Facebook, and we can expect the new Congress to hold hearings about the exponentially...
Brett Kavanaugh's story shows, in lurid microcosm, how a certain class of men guard and perpetuate their privileges.
I feel sorry for a lot of these men, but I don’t think they feel sorry for women, or think about women’s experience much at...
No one knows whether Brett Kavanaugh would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade outright or simply gut it. But even on a lower court, Kavanaugh...
