Arguing that the contemporary Republican Party is waging a counterrevolution against the core beliefs of the nation, journalist and scholar Kevin C. O’Leary cracks open American history to reveal the essence of America’s liberal heritage...

Inheritance, they claim, is no longer a 19th-century-style transmission of property titles after death but a “strategically timed transfer of funds that need to be leveraged and put to work in the speculative logic of the asset economy”....

O’Neill takes a deep dive into American history, exposing the still-raging battles over monuments dedicated to one of the most notorious Confederate generals, Nathan Bedford Forrest...

For two hundred years, conservatism has defied its reputation as a backward-looking creed by confronting and adapting to liberal modernity...

Hate crimes. Misinformation and conspiracy theories. Foiled white-supremacist plots. The signs of growing far-right extremism are all around us...

Buruma offers a brilliant, witty journey through the "Special Relationship" between Britain and America that has done so much to shape the world, from World War II to Brexit...

If small is beautiful, and smaller nations tend to be happier, why shouldn't a state like California secede and put its savings from national defence into a scheme for national health?

Yet Americans are only now awakening to what is perhaps the gravest domestic threat to our liberties in a century—in the form of an extreme and fast-growing concentration of economic power. Monopolists today control almost every corner of the American economy...

Yoo argues that Trump has performed in a manner that the Constitution’s Framers would applaud.,,,

The mainstream American news media are not really free at all, but have been pressed into service over more than a century to generate profits for a few rich owners bent on selling eyeballs and ears to advertisers...

On November 3, 1969 Richard M. Nixon addressed the nation in what would come to be known as “The Silent Majority Speech”...

Heather Lende was one of the thousands of women inspired to take a more active role in politics during the past few years...

As the 2020 presidential campaign begins to take shape, there is widespread distrust of the fairness and accuracy of American elections....

Bartlett provides a stirring argument for the relevance of comic playwright Aristophanes as a serious political and philosophical thinker. In his translations of two lesser-known plays,..

What is Badiou’s theory of emancipation? For whom is this emancipation possible? Does emancipation entail an indifference to difference?

What is "Left" foreign policy? Michael Walzer explains...

America is in a Cold Civil War, between people who see each other as threats to the country — but themselves as patriots. How can that be? They are patriots of two nations...

Why are Americans, and American politicians more specifically, obsessed with sex? Why, in the words of Janet Jakobsen, are gender and sexuality such riveting public policy concerns the United States?

Scott challenges us to question the persistence of structures of power and the very idea of the nation-state, while encouraging us to rethink whether there truly is such a thing as the judgment of history...

What happened to the Democratic Party after 2016?

Greedy elites are purposefully stoking racial division and laughing all the way to the bank.

Taliaferro argues that natural law can act as a mediating tool...

Chris Heffer argues that to analyze untruthfulness, we need a framework which goes beyond these two kinds of speech acts, bullshitting and lying...

What are the similar ways in which animals and people try to intimidate others?

What are we to make of the year’s first presidential debate?