Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding, a new book by Osita Nwanevu, a writer for The New Republic and The ...

But American capitalism has been built on the pursuit of profit at all costs. In recent decades, investors have flocked to index funds, which track the market, offering diversification and low fees.

How a Pandemic Malaise Is Shaping American Politics Four years later, the shadow of the pandemic continues to play a profound role in voters’ pessimism and distrust amid a presidential rematch.

Maybe everything that has happened in presidential elections since 2016 can be explained by three simple propositions: Any living human being would defeat Hillary Clinton.

The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in 1989 that burning the American flag is an act of political expression protected by the ...

The torment of Mr McCarthy is easy to explain. But it points to a mystery, one this column will outline but—with apologies—not solve: why is it that each party’s grip on power, once attained ...

How Smithsonian Curators Visit Political Conventions to Explain the Present to the Future When scholars from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History attend one of these gatherings ...