Conservatism

The state’s evangelical voters were once skeptical of the former President. Now they are among his strongest supporters.

Our political roundtable looks at the Supreme Court’s conservative tilt as another term concludes, this one marked by ethics scandals and landmark rulings.

DeSantis is not simply inveighing against progressive control of institutions. He is using his powers as governor to remake them.

After the Dobbs decision, soul-searching about the rule of law has rarely been as cynical or as fundamental.

By mocking corporate virtue-signalling on climate change and racial justice, the biotech founder is becoming a right-wing star.

There’s a crime-ridden neighborhood called Bushwick, where permanently sick-looking people in their twenties live in dirty warehouses.

Benjamin Wallace-Wells discusses the most decisive (and most competitive) races in the upcoming elections, and which issues seem likely to tip the scales.

After a week of publicity stunts, the hip-hop icon, who now goes by Ye, has inflamed debates over the state of “cancel culture” and the future of the Republican Party.

J. Michael Luttig is opposing Republican groups in one of the most momentous cases that the Supreme Court is considering this term.

The columnist Christopher Caldwell discusses conservative admiration for the Russian leader, and whether election denialism is just politics.

David Remnick and Jeannie Suk Gersen discuss the cases that will be heard in the Court’s new term.

There is a feeling with this Court that the conservative Justices could make a landmark ruling out of almost any case.

Barbara F. Walter, who has studied political violence for the C.I.A., sees troubling signs that an anti-democratic crisis could happen here.

The Republican Party has made clear that it has no place for Black activism. Yet Black candidates for Congress are running in the G.O.P. in record numbers.

How does a swing state go extreme? The reporter took a deep dive into Ohio statehouse politics to diagnose why American democracy itself is now “on life support.”

A crop of new books reconsiders feminism’s stance toward men.

The sociologist Samuel Perry studies the views of people who believe that America was founded as a Christian nation, based on Biblical principles. He argues that this ideology is on the rise—and that it is threatening our democracy.

Jessica Winter surveys a genre of literature that is being banned across the country, and considers what its removal from school libraries could mean for young people.

The Justice was once an outlier for his “outre” legal views. Now, Jeannie Suk Gersen says, he is the heart of a conservative bloc that is only getting started.

Recent rulings on gun and abortion rights have revealed a conservative majority executing a long-standing agenda of radical right-wing ideas.