Choosing former Secretary of State John Kerry as climate envoy is an important first step. To regain trust, the U.S. will…
State legislatures, which will draw congressional districts that last through 2030, are dominated by the GOP.
The 2018 murder of Rio city councilwoman Marielle Franco inspired record numbers of Black women to get involved in politics.…
The influential civil rights group got its start following a wave of brutal white-led violence against Black people in Springfield,…
For his first presidential Thanksgiving, George Washington aimed to pull his country together in the face of the many internal…
Elections – like Georgia's runoffs – that require majority support can sometimes be used to exclude those in the…
A set of efforts that registered 800,000 new voters since 2018 may have been the key to Georgia turning blue in a presidential…
When it comes to election fraud claims, watch what the lawyers do, not what the politicians say.
Much as the South rejected President Lincoln's election with a massive armed uprising, could President Trump's many…
President Donald Trump may be trying to get state lawmakers to shift the outcome of the presidential election.
In 1967 a Mexican reporter told the CIA he had met Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico City just before the JFK assassination. New…
Investigations of the 9/11 attacks show that a short, unstable transition between two presidents can weaken US security.…
People know a lot about their friends and neighbors – and pollsters can learn from that information, if they ask.
Mink, the first woman of color in Congress, brought a racially and historically aware brand of feminism into lawmaking and…
'Mind your manners' isn't just something your mother told you. Manners – and civility – are an essential…
Women made gains in Congress this election cycle, but they are still underrepresented compared to their share of the population.
Only one American president – Grover Cleveland – has lost reelection and then won back his office.
Each side in the bloody Nagorno-Karabakh conflict accuses the other of war crimes. Such allegations attract foreign attention…
Computational methods could help identify conspiracy theories as they emerge.
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