There are echoes from the 19th century in the Republican effort to roll back liberal gains.

Issuing last-minute "parameters" to guide a peace agreement won’t achieve much

Some people must pay more than is "fair."

Voters in swing states are disproportionately white — a fact that shapes campaigns.

Current state laws on physician-assisted suicide are morally indefensible.

While some of Trump’s economic policy proposals are, in isolation, to be welcomed, many may contain poison pills.

Mandates are a squishy concept. That doesn’t mean they don’t matter.

I did not set out to study rural resentment of "elites," but that’s what I found.