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Containing Trump

Whether the 45th president is a dangerous authoritarian isn't up to him. It's up to us...

'America first' won't stick

Robert D. Kaplan's superb new book, Earning the Rockies, explains why geography is destiny. The U.S. is fated to lead...

Why we’ll miss Obama

The 44th president broke his promise to bring "fundamental change" and brought steadiness and realism instead. Thank goodness...

An LGBT-Christian train wreck?

The conflict is sharpening between LGBT rights and religious-liberty claims, but we can avoid a train wreck if we see nondiscrimination law as it really is...

She’s two-faced. Good for her

Even if we can't say it, we know Hillary Clinton is right: politicians need to be hypocrites...

Chaos Syndrome

Politics is losing the capacity to organize itself. The syndrome is chronic, and we gave it to ourselves...

The State of State Parties

Hidden in plain sight, state parties can buffer the influence of outside groups. Strengthening them can improve our politics...

Goodbye to a Great Magazine

Beloved of policy wonks but little known to the broad public, National Journal was one of U.S. journalism's great innovators...

The Trigger Warning We Need

Yale University is not a “safe space” for minority (or majority) students. It is only fair to give them fair notice...

The Inexperience Premium

Trump is a trend: winning presidential candidates are more and more unprepared for the job...

The Coming Evangelical Crisis

Many young U.S. evangelicals are growing uneasy with traditional doctrine on homosexuality. A crisis of conscience is coming...

Wrong, Mr. Chief Justice

Obergefell, the gay-marriage decision, isn’t a step toward polygamy. In fact, it's a step in the other direction...

My Gay Marriage Scorecard

I was right about the effects but way off on the timing...and I underestimated my country. What I learned in my two decades of advocacy...

A Bridgegate Too Far

Closing traffic lanes in New Jersey to punish a political opponent was bad. Making it a federal crime is worse...

Wrong on Religious Rights

Utah found a win-win on gay rights and religious liberty. Indiana's new mini-RFRA law, on the other hand, scores an own-goal...