This past week, seven Democrat senators and an Independent senator joined all of the Republicans and voted to end the ...

In this week’s Elie v. U.S., The Nation’s justice correspondent digs into the fallout from the Democrats’ shutdown letdown. Plus: why the SNAP fight is far from over—and Kim Kardashian shouldn’t ...

Across the world, the defining political struggle isn’t left versus right — it’s whether institutions can restrain leaders who demand personal loyalty over constitutional limits. In Hungary, Turkey ...

By Ross Hetrick December 4, 1865 was a pivotal day in American history when Thaddeus Stevens, with the help of Edward ...