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"Americans are hungry for candidates who reject the status quo while maintaining practical, results-oriented positions." ...

During a week of tragedy marked by a massacre in Australia, a mass shooting at Brown University, and the brutal killing of a Hollywood icon, President Donald Trump decided to hold a rare, primetime ...

Political reframing in 2025 showed how strategic language choices override traditional metrics, as Democrats' shift from ...

The year in politics has been a lot. We can say that about a lot of years in recent history, but that’s especially the case with 2025.

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, ...

Students and faculty from the University of Connecticut came together to hear Angelia Wilson, a professor of politics at the University of Manchester, discuss the impact of the Christian right on ...

(Bloomberg) -- Gerrymandering is almost as old as the US republic itself. It’s the process of drawing electoral district lines in sometimes absurd ways to fortify one political party at the expense of ...

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 ...

During my years as a Ph.D. student, I found myself for the first time in a familiar routine. For four years, my life settled into a predictable rhythm—weekly meetings with my supervisor, seminars to ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. New York City billionaire John Catsimatidis has long been immersed in ...