Gerrymandering is almost as old as the US republic itself. It’s the process of drawing electoral district lines in sometimes absurd ways to fortify one political party at the expense of another.

In a speech this week, U.S. Vice President JD Vance, America’s second Catholic vice president, laid out a distinctly ...

The huge sum shows that while the Koch network may not hold significant power at high levels of the Republican Party, it ...

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During a week of tragedy marked by a massacre in Australia, a mass shooting at Brown University, and the brutal killing of a ...

When host Garry Kasparov created the Renew Democracy Initiative in 2017, the founding manifesto warned that “the liberal-democratic order is under attack from within and without.” Eight years later, ...

Zohran Mamdani, New York’s mayor-elect, is among the latest politicians to be tagged with the term, raising the question: ...

And there lies the challenge for anyone trying to write cohesively about American politics in 2025, this “We Didn’t Start the ...

During my years as a Ph.D. student, I found myself for the first time in a familiar routine. For four years, my life settled into a predictable rhythm—weekly meetings with my supervisor, seminars to ...

American political culture is broken. Acts of political violence, like the recent killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk and its aftermath, are disturbing indicators of how fractured and ...

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