Keeping the United States together meant more than defeating the Confederacy. Lincoln first had to unite a fractured North.
Religiously affiliated organizations can clash with politicians on humanitarian aid to migrants, raising issues around religious…
Kamala Harris’ career as a prosecutor lets her use law-and-order themes to fight back against America’s first convicted…
While US presidents have consistently said that a two-state solution is the only way forward to settle Israeli-Palestinian…
Outside fighters are not merely mercenaries – they are participants in a deeply rooted, historically complex struggle…
With President Joe Biden out of the presidential race, the Democratic Party will have to find another nominee. Past methods…
Did you experience the rush of people expressing conspiracy theories and rumors on social media in the immediate aftermath…
Deploying a series of new tactics and weapons, including the first use of sea drones in combat, Ukrainian forces have created…
The Heritage Foundation, a sponsor of the Republican National Convention, would likely be influential in shaping a possible…
In two recent rulings, the conservative justices handed state lawmakers new power to redraw congressional maps to their…
At the time of independence, Pennsylvania was also at the geographical center of the 13 original Colonies. It remains a…
Tight security may be the reason that the GOP Convention isn’t filled with the homemade, and often wacky, stuff that’s…
Independent voters who feel high levels of nostalgia were more likely to vote for Republicans in the 2022 midterm elections.
Born enslaved, John Andrew Jackson spent his life fighting for freedom as a fugitive, abolitionist, lecturer and writer.…
The Supreme Court’s recent ruling means that judges will have more power than scientific experts in determining whether…
When political discourse is devoid of facts and high on demonization, it’s no surprise that political violence is the…
In 1988, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that independent counsels were constitutional.
Lone wolf attackers like Matthew Thomas Crooks pose the greatest security threats in the country – and are hardest to…
Curators from the Smithsonian will be at the GOP convention collecting items from buttons to banners. Their goal: to add…
A scholar of political assassinations says the US just narrowly avoided plunging into wholesale violence and potential civil…