Students at Johns Hopkins University debated political decisions playing out in the U.S. Their emotional discussions reveal ...

Revisiting the origins of American democracy. By Jill Lepore. In 1938, if you had a dollar and seventy-two cents, you could ...

Advocates for families of active-duty troops, legal scholars and ex-military leaders critique the decision to deploy U.S.

The survey was conducted in the wake of U.S. airstrikes on Iran and the shootings of two Minnesota lawmakers and their ...

All-volunteer grassroots movements host another peaceful protest in Sioux Falls against the current federal administration.

What it means to be an American, and the independence woven into the fabric of this country, was on the minds of many this ...

Days after Israel began striking Iran’s nuclear and military sites earlier this month, a US non-profit that has provided ...

About three-quarters of Americans say democracy is under serious threat, according to a new poll from NPR, PBS News and ...

Heather K. Gerken, the dean of Yale Law School, will run the powerful philanthropy, known for pushing for social justice.

Zohran Mamdani officially clinched the Democratic nomination in the New York mayor’s race on Tuesday — the same day the ...

Hong Kong pro-democracy political party League of Social Democrats announced on Sunday it had disbanded due to immense ...

One of Iran’s leading human-rights defenders warns that authorities there will turn on their own people to consolidate power ...