Interview on gerrymandering and voting rights that have fired up a generation of activists fighting for free and fair elections

“We have a duty to warn if someone may be dangerous to others”

The gun lobby’s new “recruitment ad” is really a call for white supremacy and armed insurrection, deliberately crafted to stir anger and fear

Trump takes us for chumps. The Republic is nothing to him but a crap game. And he loads the dice.

Two days later, Trump was at it again, beating his chest and tweeting like a vengeful god who bruises easily, this time directing his tirades at the real villains—his fellow Republicans, right-wing think tanks and especially the roughly three dozen members of the so-called “Freedom Caucus,” the most extreme conservatives in the House.

Bannon seems to believe in everything and nothing; one moment an economic libertarian, the next a white nationalist, then a worldwide conspiracy guy, but ultimately, perhaps, just someone who enjoys the rush of having power

You can see in the chaos a pattern: the political, religious and financial right collaborating to move America further from the norms of democracy with the triumph of one-party, one-man rule. There’s never been anything like it in our history.

In just a few days the new president has upended the rules of democracy with a clumsy heavy-handedness worse than we imagined

In just a few days, Donald Trump seems to have set out to wreck government and turn over the remains to his plutocrat friends

All indications are that our incoming president regards the White House as a pirate galleon built to increase his family’s trove of plunder many fold, and the notion seems to be rubbing off on Congress