John McCain

Twenty years ago, Senator John McCain tried to spearhead an effort. What has happened to Republicans since then?

Fernando Barral spent his life trying to be a model Communist, only to be stymied by Party commissars.

“There was a concern that it was reminding the President of John McCain.”

“And another thing . . .”

During a speech in Ohio, Trump railed against the late Senator McCain, who died of brain cancer. It wasn’t just unseemly. It was kind of demented.

When McSally was appointed, on Tuesday, to the seat vacated by John McCain, Mitch McConnell got who he wanted. But did Arizona?

McCain and Obama shared a hope of a politics unspoiled by competing visions of American society. The rise of Trump should raise doubts about whether that can or ought to be realized.

Did McCain’s interventionist approach to foreign policy help solidify the American-led international order, or did it provide an opening for a neo-isolationist like Trump?

Two ex-Presidents and one eloquent daughter teamed up to rebuke the pointedly uninvited Donald Trump.

McCain’s singular talent as a politician was outlining, and often enacting, the tenets of an American religion.

Read past coverage of McCain’s clarified principles, unrelenting candor, and experiences in Vietnam.

Jonathan Blitzer joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss how partisan rivalries are playing in the run-up to the midterm elections in Arizona.

The claim that it is disrespectful to the military to protest unchecked state violence directed largely at black people is rooted in a euphemistic version of the American past and a blinkered version of the present.

The McCain who will be celebrated in Washington in the coming days was a creature not just of honor but of bonhomie—the wisecracking loyal friend of Republicans and Democrats alike.