Sometimes it can be enough, or at least a start, to take the first step forward.

Voters deserve to know more about who they're electing.

The existence of the draft executive order doesn’t prove Trump entered into an illegal conspiracy. But it does raise questions the House's Jan. 6 committee must investigate.

"Have you been vaccinated?" is a yes or no question.

The casual tone used by GOP leaders when discussing how to interrupt the peaceful and democratic transfer of power testifies to their immersion in a cult-like world in which loyalty to Trump,...

DOJ's course of action is bad for Carroll, obviously, but it’s also bad for efforts to restore people’s faith in our legal system.

Our government cannot function properly when people lose confidence in it.

Interfering with justice cannot become the new norm. And we cannot tolerate any more efforts by our politicians to hold themselves above the law.

Our government cannot function properly when people lose confidence in it.

As a law enforcement veteran, I instinctively give cops the benefit of the doubt. But the Uvalde school shooting tells a different story.

Trump ensured it will take years to restore a depleted federal workforce, whether or not he wins the election.

The ex-daughter-in-law of Trump's CFO could be the first domino to fall.

It was very satisfying to watch Kennedy underestimate Abrams and then see her intellectually stomp him in front of his colleagues and the world.

IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig has some serious questions to answer.

There may be no greater presidential power than the authority to send in troops.

DOJ's course of action is bad for Carroll, obviously, but it’s also bad for efforts to restore people’s faith in our legal system.

In a rational and healthy polity, Miller would be regarded as a pariah, not a source or a pundit.

Interfering with justice cannot become the new norm. And we cannot tolerate any more efforts by our politicians to hold themselves above the law.

There's no time to waste on fake bipartisanship.

It’s not just about Trump, it’s about a party whose insiders are devoted to one man and no principles.

If Kyle Rittenhouse was named, say, Khalid Rehman, we know things would look very different.

A crisis of this level deserves more than a speech — even a very good one.

A President Biden won't automatically undo the damage Trump has done in four years. But it gives the country a chance to keep striving for its ideal form.

The Texas senator is apparently confused about critical race theory and the KKK.

There are four possibilities for holding an attorney general accountable if evidence suggests he did abuse his office to protect a president.

The two sides were miles apart in tone and substance. And yet the outcome still isn't in doubt.

The Texas senator is apparently confused about critical race theory and the KKK.

Ending America's longest war despite pressure to keep it going deserves our credit and respect.

I have no doubt that Biden will deeply disappoint me. That day is not today.

The filibuster was never about helping pass good bills — only killing them. Why can't Joe Manchin see this?

Of all the Jan. 6 committee's witnesses, Jeffrey Clark is a relatively big fish.

The Constitution requires federal courts to step in and ensure voting rights during the pandemic. But the Supreme Court is doing the opposite.

The far right was quick to characterize the attorney general's order as an attempt to suppress free speech and as an attack on parents. The truth is quite different.

How Tucker Carlson revived and supercharged the white supremacist “great replacement” conspiracy.

I want to live in a world where boys are hugged more, not less.

Republican lies about voter fraud are giving way to naked grasping for power.

Our government cannot function properly when people lose confidence in it.

Depending on what Trump Organization family members have said so far, it may already be too late to avoid legal drama.

Fewer days for early voting? No Sundays? Strict, expensive identification requirements in order to vote? Who cares?

Letting go is hard, but it’s time say goodbye to this GOP. Even if it means that some of us will find ourselves in the political wilderness.

President Joe Biden also delivered remarks at the star-studded event in Washington. Read on for the good, the bad and the cringeworthy.

Trump’s lies about Covid very likely killed Americans. Where's the accountability?

Grand juries aren't impaneled to do damage assessments but to investigate crimes.

The 60 vote threshold in the Senate has to go for the good of the country.

The former president is presumably getting what he paid for.

I have no doubt that Biden will deeply disappoint me. That day is not today.

Sexist gaslighting has no place in the White House. But a Dr. Jilly Biden? Yes.

As our new president said in his inaugural address, it doesn't take all of us to protect democracy. It just takes "enough of us."

Rallies in support of Jan. 6 rioters will provide clues to America's future.

If Kyle Rittenhouse was named, say, Khalid Rehman, we know things would look very different.

Trump’s pre-election threats to the FBI director is part of a larger pattern.

Here's why Trump sycophants in Washington should be nervous after the first Capitol riot guilty plea.

We have now had a few days to try to absorb the Manhattan district attorney’s criminal indictment against the Trump Organization.

It's the latest version of the wanted posted of the Wild West — and it's working.

If the new unit doesn’t come with a willingness to call political, antigovernment violence "terrorism," then what’s the point?

I believe the Justice Department is probably already running a criminal investigation into Trump's attempted coup.

Sedition marks offenders as the antithesis of what it means to be American — which is why it's perfect for the Capitol riot cases.

How the Republican Party — my party — has quietly participated in the systematic deconstruction of our republic.

If Greenberg didn't spill the tea, he wouldn't have gotten a plea deal. So who will he take down?

The "Muslim ban," like Trump, is gone. Here’s what that means for people like me.

Voting in the U.S. is inherently difficult. But you need to do it anyway.

It comes down to a question of citizenship.

All these policies that were once denounced as dangerously “socialist” by Republicans have become mainstays of the American political scene.

If we can investigate the root causes of Jan. 6, we can also analyze the deaths by suicide that resulted from it.

At times it's less of a blueprint and more of a composite sketch.

Even when mourning their dead, Palestinians can’t be Palestinian.