Middle America isn’t hungry for hearings, but for the Republicans 2020 is no sure thing

Scraps of paper matter, from red poppies to international treaties

China’s rulers have forged an economic powerhouse built on repression. Yet the events of 1989 show the one-party state is doomed to fail, writes Niall Ferguson

One of the oldest ideas in Western political thought is the analogy between the individual human and the body politic – think only of Abraham Bosse’s justly celebrated frontispiece for Hobbes’s Leviathan.

Today’s overeducated rebels have diverse goals but common tactics

Mark Zuckerberg’s commitment to free speech is good news for the president

The Massachusetts senator could win in 2020 if she surges and the economy stutters

Impeachment is a political disaster that could blow up either side

Orwell and Huxley were not the first to fear an age of mass surveillance