While the U.S. government refuses to use its considerable power as leverage for peace, ordinary Americans seem to know better.

To address the problems of our “surprisingly impoverished democracy” in the midterm elections, Liz Theoharis argues that policymakers would have to take seriously the realities of tens of millions of poor and low-income people.

The Supreme Court’s decision validates a half-century-old strategy by Christian nationalists to remake the very fabric of this nation.