In hoping to refresh America — and it would appear we desperately need it — it would be helpful if we got back to our civic ...

Obama was caught on a hot mic in 2009 calling Kanye West a "jacka***" after the rapper interrupted Taylor Swift's acceptance ...

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Few conservationists have shaped the public conversation around wildlife protection quite like Peter Knights. Best known for ...

It was with good reason that Lincoln, as devoted a student of the Declaration of Independence as any American president—with the possible exception of its author, Thomas Jefferson—pointed to the ...

Many legal commentators apparently believe that, in the term that just ended, the Supreme Court further enabled President ...

The Jewish communist Ben Gold’s recently reissued 1944 novel, Your Comrade, Avreml Broide, offers a glimpse into a world in which a radical tradition of egalitarianism and cosmopolitanism overshadowed ...

There are many obstacles facing any third party; the requirement of getting a plurality vote to win an election is one of them.

President Donald Trump was visibly impressed by how well Liberian President Joseph Boakai spoke English, the West Africa ...

Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom,” Elon Musk declared on his social media platform, X ...

On this day in 1896, William Jennings Bryan of Lincoln, Nebraska, delivered his famous “Cross of Gold” speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Bryan argued that allowing the free ...

Many legal commentators apparently believe that, in the term that just ended, the Supreme Court further enabled President Donald Trump. The court did, in fact, issue a series of conservative decisions ...