“This disconnect between culturally mandated politics and the actual demonstrated preferences of most Americans has created an enormous reserve of unmet needs—and a generational opportunity.”

How the Republican party offered a home to the Proud Boys.

His verbal stumbles have voters worried about his mental fitness. Maybe they’d be more understanding if they knew he’s still fighting a stutter.

Inside America’s fast-growing civilian tactical training industry.

The Capitol was breached by Trump supporters who had been declaring, at rally after rally, that they would go to violent lengths to keep the President in power. A chronicle of an attack foretold.

A history of the ultimate political weapon, which we’ve never understood how to use.

It was a fraught, utterly uncharted presidential transition—four years ago, from Obama to Trump. It was a prelude for so much that followed.

The inside story of the megadonor and the Chinese casino money flooding our elections.

A Capitol rioter tells his story from inside.

The stories that sprung up around if not quite about Trump were as brutal and lazy as the man himself; they teased themselves endlessly from one episode to the next, building toward a brutal grand finale in which America’s heroes would murder its villains, on TV, at some time to-be-determined.

The mob that rampaged the halls of Congress included infamous white supremacists and conspiracy theorists.

Insane birthers and Glenn Beck-worshipping tea-partiers, proud racists and gun-toting antigovernment loons—they’re all here, and they’re all angry about something.

Control of the Senate could hinge on Black voters—and on an ambitious effort to get them to the polls in the largest numbers ever for the Jan. 5 runoff elections.

The new Delaware state senator is making history in her hometown.

Private executioners paid in cash. Middle-of-the-night killings. False or incomplete justifications.

The circus is gone. The presidency is ending. The mystery endures.

It’s not just the economy, stupid.

How a state that was never in doubt became a “national embarrassment.”

Welcome to Toke-la-homa.

Last year, a hacker gave Glenn Greenwald a trove of damning messages between Brazil’s leaders. Some suspected the Russians. The truth was far less boring.

Kathy Wylde’s winding path from community organizer to “lone defender of the billionaires.”

The mystery behind who currently operates The Drudge Report.

For 10 years, Libre—an arm of the Koch family’s Americans for Prosperity—has been working to foster conservatism in Hispanic communities. Now, the group is going all-in on Georgia’s Senate runoffs.

How the President could endanger the official records of one of the most consequential periods in American history.

An early history of the 2020 presidential campaign.