Unrepresentative political parties certainly haven’t helped our democracy. But can rebuilding parties save it?

History sends us signals about the abuses unfolding in America today. Can we learn from those signals? What can we learn from ...

Only 15 federal judges in U.S. history have been impeached by Congress, but just a handful of them were actually removed from ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has uncharacteristically been working with nature instead of bulldozing it into submission.

There will surely be turf wars and palace intrigue within the administration, but there is little reason to think that its ...

Summary The Antiquities Act, signed into law by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906, allows the president to designate ...

Alice Stebbins Wells patrolled dance halls, skating rinks, penny arcades and movie theaters, keeping these public spaces free ...

But McGovern, who lost every state except Massachusetts and D.C., had nothing over slick-backed California Gov. Gavin Newsom, ...

In a bipartisan letter to U.S. Department of Interior, 19 lawmakers asked the agency to halt a plan to kill 450,000 barred ...

From racial terror to literacy tests to modern-day voter suppression, efforts to silence Black political power have never stopped.

Weakening the professional civil service could turn back the clock to an era when government was rife with corruption.