GOP

The only way to prevent America’s two-party system from succumbing to extremism is to scrap it altogether.

The GOP has stopped resisting President Trump and started accelerating his race to the bottom.

It’s more likely than you might think. And it’s not too early to see how a challenger could win.

The proposed bill slashes more than half a billion dollars, or almost half of U.S. funding for the organization.

As summer travel and holidays get underway, your Elephants in the Room contributors have resurrected a tradition from our erstwhile Shadow Government days and put together our summer reading list.

On militarism, exhaustion, and decadence.

Kid Rock is a true “American Bad Ass” who will never back down from a fight. Maybe that's why some Republicans think he should run for Senate.

Why I’m voting for Hillary Clinton, and why real Republicans should, too.

It’s a tactic straight out of Putin’s playbook.

The party of principled conservatism, of promoting freedom at home and abroad, has become a party of conspiracy-mongering, authoritarianism, and white power.

But unlike Donald Trump, Wendell Willkie was a powerful proponent of internationalism and America’s role as a global steward.

The vice president singles out Trump’s friendliness toward Russia and his claim that Obama “founded” ISIS as evidence the GOP nominee is “already making our country less safe.”

Act now, or bear the blame for the virus's devastating effects.

He alone can end 70 years of dangerous tensions with Russia — by extending a hand of friendship to our longtime adversary.

In this race, Clinton is the national security candidate and Trump is putting America at risk.

A naturalist’s guide to the endangered American Republican elephant.

On the streets of Cleveland, armed protesters, police, and skeptical Clevelanders gather outside the Republican National Convention.

The university Melania Trump claims to have attended recently tweaked its plagiarism policies.

And other lessons about the GOP's overblown, dangerous rhetoric about radical jihadi terrorism.