The U.S. and the world are moving away from democracy and toward autocratic rule. Psychological research suggests several ...

Freshman Rep. Michael Baumgartner (R-WA) traveled to an estimated 94 countries before joining the House of Representatives.

Ukraine. It also opened a new phase in America’s trans-Atlantic relations. We shall soon discover whether it also means the beginning of the end for NATO and the further destabilization of a Europe ...

Belle da Costa Greene, the first director of the Morgan Library, was a Black woman who passed as white in the early 20th ...

Audacious, breathtaking actions from the executive branch threaten not only the safety and security of Americans, but the ...

IT IS NO LESS THAN THIS IDEA OF AMERICA, this creed, this soul of America that we now see and feel slipping away. And yet, ...

Bernstein’s endlessly inquisitive nature — what historian Doris Kearns Goodwin has called his “infinite curiosity” — was ...

Fannie Lou Hamer was an artist who fought for inclusive democracy. Her advocacy and activism laid the groundwork for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

At the one-month mark of Donald Trump’s second term as president, his approval rating in a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS ...

Some of the most vocal critics of Vladimir V. Putin and proponents of the United States’ role as a global defender of ...

Laura Dean Bennett Staff Writer For self-styled students of American history, like me, Presidents Day provides an annual ...