"Americans are hungry for candidates who reject the status quo while maintaining practical, results-oriented positions." ...

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A week ago, it looked like Minnesota Democrats had stumbled into a scandal that might cost their party any chance to win back ...

There is a pervasive feeling—rising up from the precarious working poor, through the illusory middle class, and now even brushing the edges of the elite—that something in America is broken. The ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The U.S. is in a new era of political violence — one that feels starker than any since the fraught days of 1968, ...

When host Garry Kasparov created the Renew Democracy Initiative in 2017, the founding manifesto warned that “the liberal-democratic order is under attack from within and without.” Eight years later, ...

Political reframing in 2025 showed how strategic language choices override traditional metrics, as Democrats' shift from 'economy' to 'affordability' messaging flipped races nationwide.

Julio Cortez / AP Many of us are feeling anxious today and for good reason. Politics has never been an easy business, but this season has been so raw and nasty that fear and loathing, to borrow a ...

The landscape of American politics is witnessing an extraordinary transformation, with tech mogul Elon Musk at the forefront, demonstrating unprecedented influence over legislative processes and ...

My grandmother first visited the U.S. as a young German girl in 1964 as a Girl Scout camp leader, and she still tells me about it every time I mention that I'm a visiting international student at Duke ...