U.S. politics

Adnan R. Khan: How do you convince rural Americans that the cities are not the anarchy Trump says they are? How do you convince urbanites to engage with rural fears rather than dismiss them?

Andray Domise: Harris’s status as running mate to Joe Biden is indeed historic. But representation does not imply loyalty or any degree of respect to Black and brown communities beyond the superficial.

Rick Smith: There has never been a better moment for American progressives to flex their muscles

Democratic candidates for president are being measured based on two- and three-digit contributions to their campaigns—or lack thereof

Allen Abel: As the president’s hallucinatory world heaves and crumbles, Americans ponder what kind of country they wish to live in—and what kind of people they want to be

If politics is theatre, then no candidate is more authentic than the new mayor of Knoxville, Tenn.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has put a brash, fresh face on unapologetic socialism in the United States. Can Americans—or even Democrats—get behind her?

The Democratic Party’s new brand might feel like empty sloganeering—but it may also signal a big shift in thinking. Which one is it?

U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted out an incomplete sentence with the word ‘covfefe’ Tuesday night and the Internet is loving it. We asked people how they would pronounce the mysterious word.

The 45th President of the United States has developed a reputation for dishonesty in just a few months. Here is a selection of Donald Trump’s more egregious lies.

The MSNBC anchor discusses his provocative book on America’s criminal justice system, the politics of fear and order, and Trump as a conspiracy theorist

Why the speakers on the Republican convention’s second evening assailed Clinton—and whether it worked