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 ...

Fourteen presidents have called themselves Freemasons, members of the centuries-old fraternal organization known for its secret rituals and mysterious symbols. Abraham Lincoln was not one of them, but ...

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 ...

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 ...

Three Louisiana residents have been arrested for allegedly stealing a rare solid silver Abraham Lincoln statue from the Houmas House Estate and Gardens in Darrow and cutting it into pieces to sell at ...