The current concentration of wealth is unlike anything in history. So is billionaires’ involvement in politics.

On Sept. 2, a rarity will arrive in bookstores: a volume that manages to bridge the divides of today’s highly polarized politics. That book is the Almanac of American Politics. An updated version of ...

The parties themselves look feeble and vulnerable to capture—by opportunistic candidates, attention-seeking infotainers, and parochial activists. Donald Trump’s hostile takeover of the Republican ...

When host Garry Kasparov created the Renew Democracy Initiative in 2017, the founding manifesto warned that “the liberal-democratic order is under attack from within and without.” Eight years later, ...

The pendulum will swing back. It is a phrase invoked repeatedly, with variation, since Donald Trump’s reelection last November. Cable news anchor Chris Cuomo, Senator Angus King, and pollster Nate ...

American political culture is broken. Acts of political violence, like the recent killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk and its aftermath, are disturbing indicators of how fractured and ...

Our nation’s campaign finance laws are a mess. Money has never been so influential in American politics, and it could get worse. The Supreme Court is set to hear a case about how much money political ...