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?

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...

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...

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

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,..

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....

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...

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?

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...

What happened to the Democratic Party after 2016?

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...

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?

Through this diverse cast of characters, Chambers-Letson highlights moments of immanent communism: collaborations, romantic relationships, and serendipitous collisions that point towards a liberated future which also exists in our troubled present...

Willliams explores the complexity of race and culture in the United States....

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

What is it that makes hatred so addicting?

Gene Ludwig cares. The former banker, government regulator, and serial entrepreneur cares deeply about the hollowing out of the American middle class over the past several decades, not least of all in his hometown of York, PA....

Democratic socialism is on the lips of activists and politicians from both the left and the right. Some call it extremism; some call it common sense. What are we talking about?

It has been nearly 70 years since William Patterson and Paul Roberson when before the UN and charged the US government with genocide...