Paul Wardell

The LDS Church has mobilized millions of voters through satellite broadcasts, sacred pulpits, and apostolic instruction — and the law has almost never touched them for it.

The IRS just broke with seventy years of precedent on church political endorsements — and exposed the gap between what political operatives want from faith communities and what faith communities want for themselves.

The Trump administration turned whitehouse.gov into a state-run press shaming operation — and the mechanism is more dangerous than the insults.

The Dennis Perry case isn't a story about a broken justice system — it's a story about a justice system working exactly as designed.

Pundits and politicians keep announcing a spiritual Great Awakening — and survey after survey of tens of thousands of Americans keeps finding nothing of the sort.

Schedule Policy/Career strips due process, silences whistleblowers, and hands the president a workforce he can fire at will — and the administration did it after nine in ten public commenters said no.

The attacks keep coming, the death tolls keep varying, and the international response keeps falling just short of the pressure needed to stop any of it.

Senator Chris Murphy just spent half an hour on the Senate floor reading a documented timeline of corruption — and the pattern it reveals is worse than any single scandal.

"Trump Derangement Syndrome" was designed to make critics look unhinged — but look at what you actually have to believe to defend the man it protects.

Republicans love pointing out that the KKK and the Confederacy belonged to the Democrats — so why are they the ones screaming when those statues come down?

Critics are routinely dismissed as parasites on real talent — but that misses the structural function they actually serve, and why losing them would be catastrophic.

Trump spent years stonewalling a DNA test that could have cleared his name — and now, owing $88 million in civil judgments, his Justice Department has opened a criminal probe into the woman who asked for it.

A 2026 Supreme Court ruling reshaped the rules of political mapmaking, and the damage it's about to do runs deeper than any single congressional district.

Trump's compulsive, contradictory public speech isn't just noise — it's quietly dismantling the machinery that turns American words into American law.

A psychological concept called 'person-environment fit' explains why some voters thrive under conditions that look, from the outside, like democratic collapse.

The automation conversation keeps fixating on elite professions — but a new economic analysis reveals a specific, largely invisible cohort with nowhere to land.

The latest democracy research shows American backsliding isn't being driven by force — it's being driven by voluntary surrender, and political science explains exactly why that's harder to reverse than a coup.

New research found that people engage more seriously with opposing political arguments from AI than from humans — which says something damning about who we've already decided not to hear.

Political scientists have spent two decades mapping exactly how democracies die without a coup — and the indicators they built now point at the United States.

Research shows partisans wildly overestimate how much the other side hates them — and the same distortion is running in silence through your friendships, your family dinners, and your marriage.