Penn’s History Department is adding a new political history concentration, giving students the opportunity to explore the evolution of political institutions and state powers on a national and global ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The issue of abortion had a long-complicated history both before and after the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision, making abortion legal nationwide. It is a historical ...

The second night of the Republican National Convention had the theme of “Making America Safe Again.” As Texas Senator Ted Cruz proclaimed, “your family is less safe, your children are less safe, the ...

We speak of America’s political “fracturing” and “polarization” as if these are new things under the sun. In fact, as Yuval Levin reminds us in “American Covenant,” the whole point of the U.S.

History lessons are being wiped from the internet, and California is retreating from ethnic studies, as education swings away from curriculums that are seen as too progressive. By Dana Goldstein In ...

LEWISTON, Maine – In October, the professor in my American Parties, Campaigns, and Elections class read aloud some politicians’ quotes about their opponents and asked us to guess who said them. Some ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In 1948, the Republican and Democratic parties did something unthinkable in today’s climate of ferocious political animosity: They not only held their national conventions in the ...

The pendulum will swing back. It is a phrase invoked repeatedly, with variation, since Donald Trump’s reelection last November. Cable news anchor Chris Cuomo, Senator Angus King, and pollster Nate ...

Black hair has been through more drama than a season finale of Scandal. From braids that carried secret maps during slavery to the never-ending debate over natural vs. relaxed, our hair has been both ...