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Politics today often feels less like leadership and more like reality TV: full of shouting, stunts, and endless cable debates that generate heat but no solutions. Most of us are simply exhausted by ...

American political culture is broken. Acts of political violence, like the recent killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk and its aftermath, are disturbing indicators of how fractured and ...

Mr. Witt is the author of “The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America.” As democracy in the United States spirals into a widening gyre of distrust, demagogy and ...