America’s $38 trillion national debt isn’t really because of bad math or budgeting, top economist Barry Eichengreen says. It ...

People trying to understand politics in the United States today often turn to history for precedents and perspective. Are our current divisions like the ones that preceded the American Revolution or ...

Fusion advocates said the system allows politics to be more dynamic. People’s political beliefs don’t always fit neatly in a ...

Politics isn’t working for most Americans. Our government can’t keep the lights on. The cost of living continues to rise. Our ...

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, ...

It's been nearly two weeks since conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated on a Utah college campus in broad daylight. Since then, Americans of every political stripe have pointed the finger ...

Lindsey Williams Drath is CEO of the Forward Party. The current structures of America’s political system encourage toxic polarization, extreme policy positions, and blatant self-interest. No wonder we ...

The United States government has been shut down for nearly a month, yet another indication that the political system has become deeply dysfunctional. But the shutdown is just another episode in a ...

In the turbulent Republican Party of the late 1870s and early 1880s, Roscoe Conkling loomed as the hard-edged master of ...

This Pew Research Center analysis focuses on views of elected officials and political reform in 25 countries across the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, North America and ...

A simplified explanation of how political systems function in society. As California highway slides toward sea, the fix will ...

United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged warring Afghan sides to seize the opportunity to strike a peace deal at ...