Republican Party

Shannon Gormley: The GOP faced a test and it failed. Now will the destruction of one major party corrupt the one that remains?

Former G.O.P. strongholds like the Ninth District of North Carolina are increasingly in play thanks to Trump’s toxic politics, boding ill for the party in 2020

Andray Domise: David Koch used his endless wealth to reshape not only politics but the fate of our planet, for the worse

Adam Gopnik argues compromise is a ’fighting word’ for liberals who need to be simultaneously radical and realistic

The former secretary of state and presidential candidate on the future of the Democratic Party, Trump’s record on Iran and climate, and defending Ted Kennedy’s complicated legacy

Pretending the world isn’t bleak feeds the mania for unreal hope that exists within American culture, argues Chris Hedges

A Q&A with the co-author of ’Russian Roulette’ on why he thinks Russians disrupted the 2016 U.S. presidential election—and what could happen next

Opinion: The President’s history and the nature of his base make it impossible to be hopeful about his feints toward gun control

Opinion: Doug Jones may have defeated Roy Moore in their Senate race, but Alabama’s electoral history is still marked by efforts to frustrate the Black vote

Anne Kingston: Led by a Trumpian example, accepting responsibility for bad or even illegal behaviour has become passé