Progressives' worst fears about Donald Trump's second term as president have turned out to be far from reality.

OPINION: How a violent insurrection, a fake slate of electors and a right-wing “stop-the-steal” movement overturned an election and led to the end of American democracy.

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Theocratic parties are incompatible with American democracy. The first obligation of elected officials is to support and defend the Constitution, which they affirm by solemn oath.

The end of history, it seems, is marked not by an ever-widening embrace of liberal democracy and free markets, but by the progressive centralization of national political power in a “unitary ...

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The end of history, it seems, is marked not by an ever-widening embrace of liberal democracy and free markets, but by the progressive centralization of national political power in a “unitary ...

Can one election end democracy? It actually happened once. OPINION: How a violent insurrection, a fake slate of electors and a right-wing “stop-the-steal” movement overturned an election and ...