Are Americans capable of tolerance in these politically polarized times? William Lyons reminds us that there is hope in our ...

The strongest divisions in our politics may emerge from patterns of early American settlement.

Professor and journalist Paul Starr on the deeper historical roots of what will be called the Trump Era—whether we like it or ...

As French politics continues to lurch from crisis to crisis, obscure articles of the constitution are becoming part of the ...

Democracy” gets thrown around a lot in American politics. Usually, when someone wins, they say democracy worked. When someone loses, they say democracy died. Here’s the twist most civics classes rush ...

But Americans have never wanted a king. Not at the founding. And not now. The Founders feared that a strongman president ...

But the Founding Fathers, who favored a republic designed to temper the passions of large assemblies, would not have recognized themselves in the sea of subversives and malcontents at No Kings rallies ...

You can be sure that whatever comes next from the people trying to convince you our nation is not a democracy, it won't be ...

When fewer people vote, each ballot carries more weight. And when many of those ballots are cast without much understanding, ...

If it is in our power to prevent something very bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything morally significant,” Singer argues, “we ought, morally, to do it.” This is the idea behind ...

Dick Cheney was the most consequential vice president since John Adams, though what that consequence amounted to is still up ...

A fight breaks out on the streets of Berlin between supporters of rival candidates ahead of voting in the second round of Presidential elections in Germany. April 26, 1925. A fight breaks out on the ...