A classics scholar and poet turns to Greek mythology, especially the story of Oedipus the King, to explain the drama --…
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What might be the global geopolitical significance of Trump's positive COVID-19 test?
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Republicans and Democrats take sharply different positions on managing US public lands, but there's solid consensus…
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A saucy, perfectly delivered retort by Democratic vice presidential candidate Lloyd Bentsen didn't hurt the Bush-Quayle…
So far, Trump and Biden are spending money on Facebook and Instagram at roughly the same rate as Trump and Hillary Clinton…
A president may transfer power to the vice president if they are no longer capable of carrying out their official role.…
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Functional political debates, like healthy democracies, require participants who respect the process and follow mutually…
How an uncharismatic Kentucky lawyer came to rule the Senate and remake the federal judiciary from top to bottom.
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There are 45 million Americans of German ancestry. They gave Donald Trump his winning margin in 2016. Will they do it again?
The 2020 presidential election will be the first in nearly 40 years conducted without protections from a court order that…
To overhaul an election redistricting process tainted by gerrymandering, Michigan has adopted a governance mechanism prominent…
They shouted, they interrupted, they insulted – and not entirely in equal measure. But Biden and Trump also touched on…
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Many Supreme Court nomination battles depended on whether the president's party also had control of the US Senate.