Mobile phones across the country are buzzing nonstop with text notifications from both presidential campaigns. A scholar…
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death has sparked a battle over the future of the Supreme Court. Against that backdrop,…
Dog whistles constitute coded language that only some voters can hear. But Trump does not hide his bigotry when talking…
It's not just whether the US Postal Service can handle the load. In 2020 primaries, states have had trouble distributing,…
President Trump is using religious rhetoric against his Democratic opponents. A historian of religion cites similar attacks…
The mail-in voting process has several built-in safeguards that make it hard for one person to vote fraudulently, and even…
Think American democracy is ending? You're not alone, writes a historian. American leaders have often yielded to despair…
Though air travel has boosted presidential campaigns for decades, the 2020 pandemic has underlined the importance of aircraft…
An army of mostly older, white volunteers run America's voting sites. They're reluctant to work during a pandemic.…
Some presidents have lied for honorable reasons, while for others the lies have been simply self-serving.
If you’re American – regardless of the color of your skin – racism structures how you think. Changing the system should…
It's easy to edit video of public figures to make them appear asleep, confused, drunk or cognitively impaired when they…
A scholar who studies Holocaust survivors sees an explanation for why women change their stories of sexual assault, even…
No, it's not the TV news networks. The American election certification process is a lot more complicated than that.
Asian Americans were engaged in an electoral realignment long before Kamala Harris was added to the 2020 Democratic ticket.
Russian agents reportedly placed malware in U.S. voter registration systems in 2016 and are actively interfering in the…
Those who say the Supreme Court's last term was a liberal success fail to understand that the types of decisions they…
In February, the US signed an accord with the Taliban to end the Afghanistan War. Now Taliban insurgents are meeting with…
The Sept. 11 bombings killed almost 3,000 Americans. But if you exclude that unique event for the last two decades of terrorist…
Americans are mad – fist-fighting, protesting mad. And that's just how politicians want voters in election season.…