John McCain

The grand lesson of John McCain's life should be that heroic politics is a broken politics.

Watergate led to a landmark law designed to limit the influence of money in politics. Today, some say the scandal isn’t what’s illegal, it’s what’s legal.

The authors of the Constitution feared mass participation would unsettle government, but it’s the privileged minority that has proved destabilizing.

How does one talk about cancer, something so unpleasant that is almost always linked with death, and where do metaphors come in?

Georgia’s Richard Russell was an unrepentant racist. You’d think a name change would be a no-brainer. And yet...

Everyone would benefit from new rules forcing greater transparency in political donations.

Is the Republican Party compatible with democracy?

David Halberstam’s title The Best and the Brightest was steeped in irony. Did these presidential advisers earn it?

Rupert Russell’s new book shows how the financialization of commodity prices worsens volatility and destabilizes geopolitics. It couldn’t be more timely.

The former Republican leader played a key role in the Americans With Disabilities Act but stuck with the GOP as the party turned its back on the law.

Updating the Registry Act and uncoupling legalization from punitive measures could be first steps.

Far from a relic of the past, September 11 continues to normalize previously unimaginable forms of state-sanctioned barbarity.

Richard Russell was a segregationist and a fervent opponent of civil rights. So why does his name still adorn the Russell Senate Office Building?

In so many ways, Limbaugh helped sow the seeds of the pathologies we're now living through.

How a party spent decades making itself white.

What does winning in Iowa really mean?

Starting the process will rein in a president undermining American ideals—and bring the debate into Congress, where it belongs.

The best growth in recent memory came after President Bill Clinton raised taxes in the ’90s.

The filmmaker wants ‘The Vietnam War’ to unite America. Can anyone do that under Trump?

Trump’s transgender ban restarts the debate about the relation between military service and social policy.