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Yes, we’re divided, but the right pushes this to an extreme

While multiple factors have led to our dangerous polarization, it is right-wing media and Republican leaders who bear responsibility for egging on our current political and cultural divides. 2:00 a.m.

FILE - More than 100 opponents of the Wisconsin Republican redistricting plans vowed to fight the maps at a rally ahead of a joint legislative committee hearing at the Wisconsin state Capitol in Madison, Wis., on Thursday, Oct. 28. Some questioned whether gerrymandering has diminished the ability of state legislatures to truly represent the people's will.

Opinion

America’s crisis of democracy has already arrived

There’s next to nothing that voters can do about it. 5:29 p.m.

Police outside an entrance to Mar-a-Lago, the residence of Donald Trump, in Palm Beach, Fla., on Monday, Aug. 8. Trump said on Monday that the FBI had searched his home and had broken open a safe, an account signaling a major escalation in the various investigations into the final stages of his presidency.

Opinion

Reading the tea leaves about the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago

Something so unprecedented needs both a legally and a politically persuasive justification. 1:28 p.m.

The Secret Service declared a restricted area at the gates of Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., on Monday.

Opinion

What happened at Mar-a-Lago is good for democracy

While Donald Trump claimed that the FBI searching his home was a sign of America’s decline, it was actually quite the opposite. 10:56 a.m.

Attorney General Merrick Garland at the White House on May 13.

Opinion

Any prosecution of Donald Trump must be viewed as warranted, above board, and nonpolitical

Leftist discontent notwithstanding, Attorney General Merrick Garland is the right man for the job. 3:48 p.m.

Even if the law is on Attorney General Merrick Garland’s side, history is not.

Opinion

Presidents have always been above the law. AG Merrick Garland must change that.

Presidents of the United States who have been accused of unlawfulness or even criminality have never been held accountable. It’s the precedent Trump counted on when he incited and refused to stop the insurrection. And it is exactly why Garland cannot miss. 3:35 p.m.

Kari Lake, who is considered the front-runner in the Republican primary for Arizona governor, at a rally headlined by Donald Trump, in Prescott, Ariz., July 22, 2022.

Letters

What about those ‘Trump-lite GOP governor hopefuls’?

We have to take them at their word. 3:00 a.m.

A video shows a rioter on screen at the June 23 hearing held by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.

Opinion

Trump’s base will not abandon its modern-day Lost Cause

The former president embodies white supremacy. History proves that’s enough to sustain his supporters’ loyalty. 3:09 p.m.