The Republican “radical insurgency,” as it was called several years ago by Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute, has gone far off the traditional rails under Trump

We call upon the international community to stop supporting this government, which is committing alarming human rights abuses

Interview on what is really at stake in the 2020 presidential election

Throughout its history the U.S. has been an unusually fundamentalist society, with regular Great Awakenings and beliefs that are far off the spectrum of developed societies

The Republican “insurgency,” has gone far off the traditional rails under Trump, undermining democracy and posing an extraordinary threat to the persistence of organized human life on earth

Discussing the challenges ahead and what needs to be done

John Nichols: When you were ten years old, you wrote a short essay on your concerns about the rise of fascism. You…

Interview on the growing extremism of the Republican Party, Trump’s ongoing trade war with China, Democrats’ abandonment of the working class and impending threat of the climate crisis

The deaths of despair are estimated at 150,000 a year, contributing to the decline in life expectancy in the U.S. for the past two years, the first time since World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic—a phenomenon unprecedented in developed societies

Interview on the roots of gun culture, militarism, economic stagnation and growing inequality in the U.S.