1952 Democratic Convention / Wikimedia Commons People gain an understanding and acceptance of the political culture of...
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Green Dragon Tavern, Union Street. Engraver: Russell. 1898 (approximate). Copy photograph from engraving by Russell of the...
The divide between right and left seems unbridgeable, presenting long-term challenges to the American government’s ability to...
Political parties thrive when they are able to manage the media and effectively promote their candidates, leaders,...
Walter Lippmann / Public Domain The interwar period was a moment of deep crisis everywhere. By Dr....
History tells us that midterm elections are bad — sometimes very bad — for the party that...
Wikimedia Commons It is essential to move beyond electoral politics to understand the way the far right...
Executives from the financial institutions who received TARP funds, Goldman Sachs Chairman and CEO Lloyd Blankfein, JPMorgan...
“Republican election yard signs” by TheDigitel Beaufort, Creative Commons In theory, political candidates who have the widest appeal...
Shutterstock Critics like that anonymous op-ed writer have no problem with how Trump’s actually hurting people. They...
“Look beneath the surface of just about any progressive cause — voting rights, prison reform, income inequality, data privacy,...
We obsess over whether Trump is a fascist. EPA/Federico Gambarni If we don’t, we risk missing what’s...
Whataboutism was long so pervasive in the USSR that it became a joke among Soviets and remains...
The Storming of the Bastille, 14 July 1789, by Jean-Pierre Houël / Bibliothèque nationale de France, Wikimedia...
In 1971, Congress passed the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA), instituting various campaign finance disclosure requirements for...
Shutterstock White South Africans are 8 percent of the country’s population and hold 70 percent of its...
Corruption infests Trump’s cabinet. (Photo: AP/Evan Vucci) Donald Trump has only enabled “the swamp.” By Bob Burnett...
Sen. John McCain, seen in 2014, told his Senate colleagues last year: “I suspect they’ll find we...
There’s good news and bad news in parallels from the 1930s, warns Professor Margaret MacMillan, outgoing Warden...
Photo by César Astudillo, Flickr, Creative Commons Most Republican and Democratic voters not only disagree over plans...
Women suffragists marching on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C., March 3, 1913 Demanding the right to vote...
Protesters hold up signs with pictures of the victims of neo-Nazi terror group National Socialist Underground in...
Still from ACORN and the Firestorm © Courtesy of Pandora Film Center | photo by Tony Azios A new...
Extremist Christian groups are coming out of the woodwork. By Alex Henderson / 07.19.2018 President Donald Trump—despite...
Registration rates for voters aged 18-29 have significantly increased in key battleground states over the last seven months...
Photo: MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images Standing up to a lawless President — ruling for the Constitution — is...
Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Photo: WikiMedia Commons) His press conference with Trump in Helsinki thrilled the MAGA...
An image uploaded on July 4, 2018, by the author (or authors) of the “QAnon” posts on...
Did the Roman arenas of political conflict support the common good? Trey Ratcliff/flickr, Creative Commons History offers countless examples...
In tumultuous times like these, they have trouble gaining traction, as this example from the American Revolution...