Heated elections, fraught presidential transitions, and strategic maneuvering for lame-duck appointments are nothing new in American politics—even in situations that historians deem to be dramatically ...

The 43-day U.S. government shutdown in 2025 broke a historic record, surpassing the 35-day closure during Trump's presidency.

John Carter Brown Library Director Karin Wulf reflected on her work at a Tuesday book launch event hosted by the Department ...

In ancient Greece, theater served as political discourse—and in fact, attending theatrical performances was considered a civic duty. Sophocles’ “Antigone” was a rallying cry against state authority: ...

The day after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed while speaking at Utah Valley University, commentators repeated a familiar refrain: “This isn’t who we are as Americans.” Others ...

The pendulum will swing back. It is a phrase invoked repeatedly, with variation, since Donald Trump’s reelection last November. Cable news anchor Chris Cuomo, Senator Angus King, and pollster Nate ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The issue of abortion had a long-complicated history both before and after the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision, making abortion legal nationwide. It is a historical ...