Rule of Law

If Biden is serious about bipartisan consensus, he should surrender presidential powers.

He wants a government of loyalists, not experts.

A final look at the intellectual and moral contortions of Trump’s defenders.

The COVID-19 pandemic has dealt a blow to American exceptionalism. In all the worst ways—number of deaths, incoherence of government…

Nothing Trump has done to smash norms and corrupt institutions is new. He’s copying autocrats from around the world.

We have a vigilante problem. We need to talk about it.

Republican acquiescence to Trump’s low-level disorder invited more heinous corruption and lawlessness.

Even as we struggle to protect our own democracy, we can’t stop fighting for democracy around the globe.

If our leaders can’t be trusted to be honest and accountable, our constitutional system can’t function.

The president’s embrace of unilateral executive action and his attack on the reliability of the coming election could combine in a constitutional cataclysm.