THE PLUM LINE

GOP abuses of power in Trump's defense could backfire — if Democrats exploit them.

GOP voters have been primed, by Republicans themselves, for Trump's calls for protest against an indictment.

Laws are being struck down left and right. But what would it look like if we wrote a contemporary Second Amendment?

Ron DeSantis's pudding fingers are just the latest candidate food flub. Why do we care?

How an obscure judicial race could create complications for Donald Trump and MAGA in 2024.

Some officials resist bringing back the moral stain that sullied the Trump and Obama administrations.

Most presidents could draw people to them or hold a crowd rapt. Not the governor of Florida.

“Martin County is the first to ban 20 of my books at once,” Picoult said. The list includes "The Storyteller," about the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor.

The House speaker and the Fox News personality tried to rewrite history. Instead, they clarified it.

The right-wing project of creating captive audiences dates back more than half a century.

Can you build a winning presidential campaign on nothing but revenge?

The Democratic Party needs to find its footing against reactionary red-state culture-warring.

In Congress, Republicans want to slash Medicaid. At the state level, momentum is moving in the opposite direction.

The right is very concerned about whether helping struggling people is "unfair" to somebody else.

A series of texts involving network personalities requires Democrats to rethink their approach to information warfare.

Red states need workers. Here's how the president can supply them — and marginalize MAGA in the process.

For a few on the right, reflexive anti-government ideology is yielding to a more sensible approach.

At Fox News and in Congress, conservatives are terrified of the monster they created, so they make it even stronger.