Lincoln led through crisis by aligning decisive action with a long horizon, turning the fight to save the Union into a moral ...

We live in a country where citizens have an opportunity to voice opinions on important issues. Those who don’t vote are ...

Republicans remain highly patriotic while their party hollows out America’s democratic institutions and their leader flirts ...

Political “science” is a misnomer. It has no objective criteria or standards like chemistry, mathematics and physics. Thanks ...

We must decide whether we will continue to uphold our democracy and the rule of law that undergirds it, or whether, as ...

What American democracy needs now is grand experiments like those of a century ago: new institutional forms that provide a ...

As America faces a crucial crossroads in 2025, historical parallels to authoritarian regimes serve as stark reminders that the price of democratic freedom requires constant vigilance and active citize ...

A Republic, If You Can Keep It On the final day of the Constitutional Convention held in Philadelphia in 1787, 55 delegates across 12 states gathered to establish a new framework for the United States ...

Contributing columnist John McCaa traces the way American presidents have flirted with authoritarianism before, and how we should move forward this time. Michael Hogue Since long before Abraham ...

Opposition parties, the judiciary, the press, and civil-society groups aren’t destroyed, but over time they lose their life, ...

Trump’s threats to take away broadcast licenses and jail protesters are threats to the very core of what makes the United ...

President Abraham Lincoln signed the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation 162 years ago this week. To celebrate, dozens of people gathered for the unveiling of a new presidential statue outside the ...