In the wake of a calamitous election that was a wholesale rebuke of the Democratic Party writ large, a lot of confusion has emerged. Should the Democrats move left to try to compete in this new world?

Think polarization is new to American politics? Harvard research reveals counties with the highest slave populations in 1860 ...

“Just do what’s popular!” is a common refrain you hear from the center-left Democratic establishment in the wake of their loss to Donald Trump. Bloggers read by the White House like Matt Yglesias have ...

In the mid-1960s, social revolutionary Martin Luther King, Jr., took a much-needed break from the public eye. Renting a house in Jamaica, he isolated himself from the national scene, foregoing even ...

A new generation of voters need to know the basics of government. Election years always galvanize political discussion, and all too often the focus is on polling and the horse-race style analysis of ...

The other day, while we were unpacking groceries, my 12-year-old asked, “Wait… can a president just stay president if they don’t want to leave?” She’d overheard something about how President Trump ...

The decline of civics education contributes to our political polarization, but our schools can help repair our social connections. Bigstock Many Americans feel that our politics are more polarized ...

Understanding the root causes and possible solutions for rising political violence Violence has become an unwelcome reality in American politics – from this weekend’s murders in Minnesota to the ...