There is a pervasive feeling—rising up from the precarious working poor, through the illusory middle class, and now even brushing the edges of the elite—that something in America is broken. The ...

You wouldn’t know it if you limited your reading to The Liberal Patriot, but the action these days in identity politics is all on the right. By importing white South Africans while expelling ...

Political reframing in 2025 showed how strategic language choices override traditional metrics, as Democrats' shift from 'economy' to 'affordability' messaging flipped races nationwide.

Amid the United States’ celebration of the 250-year anniversary of the American Revolution, journalist Osita Nwanevu says it may be time for the country to wipe the slate clean and build a new ...

During my years as a Ph.D. student, I found myself for the first time in a familiar routine. For four years, my life settled into a predictable rhythm—weekly meetings with my supervisor, seminars to ...

The various reactions to Charlie Kirk’s murder expose something both unsettling and defining about our political era: Shame is gone for good. Like his ally Donald Trump, Kirk was a far-right ...

The pendulum will swing back. It is a phrase invoked repeatedly, with variation, since Donald Trump’s reelection last November. Cable news anchor Chris Cuomo, Senator Angus King, and pollster Nate ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The U.S. is in a new era of political violence — one that feels starker than any since the fraught days of 1968, ...

Ms. Anderson, a contributing Opinion writer, is a Republican pollster and a moderator of Opinion’s series of focus groups. In a moment when partisan tensions feel as though they are reaching a ...

For a decade now, American politics has orbited around Donald Trump. He has dominated news cycles, overrun institutions, bent the Republican Party to his will, overshadowed the Biden presidency, and ...

Could Elon Musk revolutionize American politics with his new American political party? The odds are wildly against it, but ... it’s Elon Musk. What were the chances he could become the richest man in ...