The GOP’s next leader will need more than populism

David M. Drucker, Tribune News Service President Donald Trump has always been just insider-enough to placate the Republican establishment and just outsider-enough to excite conservative populists. But keeping that...

How constitutional limits become negotiable

Noah Feldman, Tribune News Service The most astonishing feature of Donald Trump’s decade as one of the most dominant figures in American politics is his ability to make the...

Deep divides emerge over core American values

Ronald L. Hirsch, Tribune News Service There are fundamental differences between liberals and conservatives—and certainly MAGA adherents—on what are “American values.” But for both liberal and conservative pundits, the...

Voting rights are back on trial... again

In October, one of the most consequential cases before the Supreme Court began. Six white Justices, two Black and one Latina took the bench for arguments in Louisiana v....

The GOP job

Shutdown's lingering effects burden families

Adam Geller, The Independent The promise of a new beginning and a celebratory Thanksgiving meal has been overshadowed by lingering financial insecurity for families like Shelby Williams, whose meticulously...

MAGA vs MAAA

Seating arrangement

Newsom’s 2028 prospects: rising star or illusion?

The 2028 presidential election is more than 1,000 days away, but you’d hardly know it from all the speculation and anticipation that’s swirling from Sacramento to the Washington Beltway....

The rise of resistance cinema in the era of Donald Trump

A year ago, a passionate woman of color found her voice and took on an older, white carnival barker who was stoking bigotries to seize unchecked power. I’m not...