Upon the adoption of the Constitution of the United States in 1787, Benjamin Franklin was asked by a woman what kind of ...

Uncertainty about where we find ourselves in political time—“back to the future,” back to the GOP of 1989, or back to Germany in the mid-1930s—goes beyond what any fact checking could resolve.

The head of Europe's oldest intergovernmental organization has warned that the West is caught in the throes of a series of crises that bears the real risk of undermining democracy, stability and rule ...

But even if America experiences a U-turn upon Trump’s departure, the country may not be out of the woods. The forces that ...

The writers recount how Americans have risen up in the past to assert their freedoms, and they call on their generation to do ...

With each passing day, the Trump administration becomes more authoritarian, shifting the country from a flawed democracy to some variant of fascism. What is President Donald Trump’s ultimate aim? Is ...

After co-authoring The Open System, a 2023 book about redesigning public education to encourage civic engagement and ...

The proliferation of privately held companies during the Reagan years laid the foundations for Trump’s approach to government ...

Can the world's richest man be a populist? Elon Musk has plenty of enemies on the left who say the Tesla CEO is too rich to be a champion of working Americans. He has opponents on the right who say ...