A distinct set of six institutions and traditions makes the country hard to subjugate to an authoritarian’s will.

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President Donald Trump is pursuing a path that is actively destabilizing the guardrails of our Constitution. Unless he ...

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United States President Donald Trump and the world’s richest person, Elon Musk, have broken up. At the end of last month, ...

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A majority of respondents in a new CNN poll said they do not believe either party has strong leadership or can get things ...

The “60 Minutes” correspondent never mentioned Trump by name, but his call to defend democratic institutions was apparently ...

The group of people was "scientifically selected" to represent the electorate in all its political, cultural, and demographic ...

Real political change in America doesn’t come from the top; it never has. It comes from the bottom, from ordinary people ...