In the weeks before and after the U.S. presidential election, many of us are asking about the role of empathy in American ...

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Beyond the deepfakes and disinformation, the potential for AI to make politics more accessible and equitable cannot be ...

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The nasty treatment of ‘No Labels’ suggests the Democratic party itself should consider a new label.

Mr. Trump, from the start of his first political campaign, began to unleash on an industrial scale the very worst of all ...

Rachel Maddow outlines Donald Trump's intention as an authoritarian to consolidate the power of the United States government ...

Almost all Americans say they support democracy—but they have very different ideas about what the word means.

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More than that, the nature of his winning coalition showed how the American electoral order tends to rebalance itself with ...

A major political storm set off by a bitter feud between the Philippine president and the vice president is testing an Asian ...

In North Carolina, it has been a hard week for democracy.