Politics & Elections

Part of the American Revolution was about to be lost a century after it had been fought.

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin), the chief architect of the GOP's budget demands. (Photo: Stephen Crowley / The New York Times) Every time I think I've seen everything, …

What does the public really think about aiding Israel?

Would this catastrophe really unleash the transformation Japan has sought for so long?

Gingrich has posed as a candidate for a decade now to promote his books, speeches, lobbying business, and other hustles.

Increasingly, the unthinkable emerges in American life as austerity measures are transformed into a specifically deadly way of exercising modes of sovereignty and government power.

If I hear one more person talk about the “liberal media” in America, I will probably vomit on them.

Counterpublic spheres and modes of resistance that we once did not think young people could mount have erupted in a rush of emotional and political expressions.

Rather than being unspoken and unseen, violence in American life has become both visible in its pervasiveness and normalized as a central feature of dominant and popular culture.

It is a possibility – nay, a likelihood - that the link between public agenda and private worries, the very hub of the democratic process, has been broken.