Say it again and again: “convicted felon Donald Trump.”

The GOP pulled “October surprises” in 1968 and 1980. Intel agencies fear this year’s version could trample democracy—and start a world war, besides.

Polls this far out from the election are notoriously unreliable. But the outcome of Trump’s hush-money trial and the first presidential debate could help shift public opinion.

Joe Biden’s real opponent isn’t inflation or Gaza or even Trump himself. It’s nostalgia bias vs. negativity bias.

Not only is election denialism antidemocratic. It’s expensive—it cost at least half a billion dollars after 2020. The solution? Make the denialists pay. Here’s how.

Donald Trump is now claiming Vladimir Putin will free reporter Evan Gershkovich only if he wins. An expert in foreign relations explains why this is a bad omen for a second Trump term.

Trump polls very well with voters without college degrees. But organized labor polls well with even more voters. Make a move, Democrats.

He’s leading Biden in the polls and catching up in fundraising. So why can’t Trump find a good running mate?

Yes, the campaign took down the “Unified Reich” video. Meanwhile, Trump and his allies are aggressively seeding the discourse with fascistic language that’s much, much worse.

With Donald Trump now claiming the FBI supposedly targeted him with lethal force, an expert in fascism explains how Big Lies like these serve his authoritarian aspirations.

Media narratives about how abortion will help or hurt each candidate ignore a simple truth.

The right-wing uberrich think they’re stopping “communism.” What they’re abetting is an extremism that will one day come for them.

The fact that the American flag flew upside down at his house not long after January 6 further confirms his warped worldview.

The Capitol rioter comes from a storied conservative family. He lied spectacularly on the stand, and is now paying the price.

A former Manhattan assistant district attorney who has tried such cases explains why Donald Trump is close to getting convicted in the hush-money trial—and how it could still go wrong.

In an election as close as this one, every vote counts—and Biden is bleeding youth support over Israel. It’s not too late. But it’s getting there.

A prominent “Never Trump” conservative talks about why the GOP’s embrace of Trump’s authoritarianism and contempt for the rule of law has him so alarmed and dismayed.

An impressive array of panelists spoke at TNR’s Philadelphia event on how Trump can be stopped—and what might happen to us if he isn’t.

The billionaires who own the GOP are now actively promoting the same sort of revisionist history the Confederacy did. That did not go very well.

Trump was terrible in the 2020 debates, by every measure. And he’ll be terrible again. If he even participates.