Stop Talking About the 25th Amendment. It Won’t Work on Trump. by David Greenberg and Rebecca Lubot And it might just set off a constitutional crisis.

The Violence at the Heart of Our Politics by Joanne B. Freeman In Congress before the Civil War, partisan disagreement often featured Bowie knives and pistols. Are we headed back toward that way of life?

American Democracy Can’t Fix Itself by Julian E. Zelizer Instead of placing their faith in the resilience of the system, ordinary voters are going to have to step up and restore the constitutional balance of power.

Who needs to worry about strategy? by Beverly Gage A question for our times is whether we need an overarching strategy to deal with the world and politics.

Don’t Let the Loud Bigots Distract You. America’s Real Problem With Race Cuts Far Deeper by Eddie S. Glaude This hateful moment offers an opportunity for Americans to finally change our racist ways.

How ‘Hyphenated Americans’ Won World War I by Geoffrey Wawro Nearly a quarter of the men sent to fight in Europe in 1918 were foreign-born.

After Trump by Andrew Bacevich The Donald in the Rearview Mirror

Resistance Means More Than Voting by Garry Wills Obama is wrong to suggest that voting and only voting is the way to express one’s opposition to a tyrant like Trump.

Can the G.O.P. Ever Reclaim Wendell Willkie’s Legacy? by Thomas Mallon He ran for President as a business mogul with no political experience, but his similarities with Donald Trump end there.

Anonymous 'resistance' is weak tea compared with standing up to Nixon by Michael Koncewicz If Richard Nixon were alive today, he probably would not agree that "President Trump is facing a test to his presidency unlike any faced by a modern American leader."

The Republican Approach to Voter Fraud: Lie by Carol Anderson They use the fallacy of rampant cheating at the polls to make it harder for people to vote.

The New Socialism Is More American Than You Think (And Also More Radical) by Jedediah Purdy Much of today’s “socialism” was once the bread and butter of the Democratic Party.

Diplomatic Back Channels Were Once Seen as a Good Thing by Steven T. Usdin But they've always been risky.