Consider yourself warned: The politics of 2026 will not be for the faint of heart.
With Americans increasingly dissatisfied with their government and the direction of the country, policy prescriptions once considered on the fringe are becoming part of the mainstream debate.
Take over Greenland, anyone? Open government-run grocery stores?
This year's midterm elections will test efforts by the emboldened to pull both parties to their edges.
Consider President Donald Trump's determination to end birthright citizenship, undoing a tenet with roots that date to 1790, and his military incursion this month to take charge of Venezuela and its oil reserves. He hasn't budged from his belief in stiff tariffs as an economic elixir, at odds with what, until his political ascension, was Republican orthodoxy.
