President-elect Donald Trump has officially selected former Gov. Rick Perry, a former rival turned loyalist, to lead...
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SEPTEMBER 14: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the American Airlines Center...
By Jackie Calmes / 07.27.2015 A paper by Jackie Calmes, Joan Shorenstein Fellow (Spring 2015) and national...
Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler in Munich, Germany. National Archives Collection of Foreign Records Seized, 1675 –...
By Dr. Thomas E. Patterson / 12.07.2016 Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press Harvard University A...
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a ‘Thank You USA’ tour rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S....
By Dick Polman / 12.09.2016 Cagle Cartoons Columnist Barack Obama had just beaten John McCain by a...
U.S. Senate Chaplain Barry C. Black By Kyle Mantyla / 12.05.2016 Last week, conservative pastors gathered on...
By Dr. Walter G. Moss / 12.04.2016 Professor Emeritus of History Eastern Michigan University This essay is...
By Lena Groeger / 11.07.2016 If the winners write the history books, they also make the maps....
Photo Credit: Matt Wade via Flickr Creative Commons By Matthew A. McIntosh / 11.15.2016 Brewminate Editor-in-Chief The...
Photo by Tony Webster Look to Norway and Sweden, where cooperative, socially democratic countries emerged after a...
An illustration from Puck mocking William Jennings Bryan and his whistle stop tour (1896) By Dr. Charles...
James Cartmill, a veteran and resident of the occupation, in his tent on the grass median in...
Roman Comitia Centuriata / Wikimedia Commons The process was never intended to be democratic. The first presidents...
By Stephen D. Foster, Jr. / 10.27.2016 Conservatives claim that voter ID is necessary to catch illegal...
If you think voter fraud is an unprosecuted crime, tell that to the Maryland investigators who knocked...
By David Lightman / 10.25.2016 McClatchy Washington Bureau CASSELBERRY, Fla. — Donald Trump’s prospects in Florida are...
By David Korten / 10.19.2016 In this most bizarre of presidential elections, no one is talking about...
YES! Illustration by Jennifer Luxton. Ranked-choice voting is catching on, and Maine might become the first state...
By Joe Brewer / 10.13.2016 We Need a Consciousness Revolution Have you been watching the political circus...
By Laura Starecheski / 10.01.2016 When Texas passed the nation’s strictest voter ID law, state lawmakers said...
Wikimedia Commons By Lornet Turnbull / 09.29.2016 Charles Tso is an urban planner who moved to Portland,...
By Shaun MullenReporter Donald Trump is not Adolph Hitler. Nor was Der Führer a rapacious Manhattan real...
By Larry Rubin / 09.29.2016 Workplace Fairness, one of the nation’s leading organizations advocating for worker’s rights,...
By Dana Milbank / 09.21.2016 Washington Post Columnist So, Donald Trump thought he’d have a little fun...
The scene of the October 2012 Aleppo bombings by Zyzzzzzy By Dr. Walter G. Moss / 08.31.2016...
By Robin Lindley / 09.11.2016 Bush / Jean Edward Smith Unprepared for the complexities of governing, with...
Right now neither Jill Stein nor Gary Johnson has passed the 15 percent polling threshold put in...
“I would like to talk to you about your comments about my being a racist, you cocksucker,”...