On June 17, 1972, in Washington, D.C., five men broke into the Democratic National Party headquarters in the Watergate Hotel. What seemed...

In the aftermath of the 2022 midterm elections, there is much to consider. From the lack of a forecasted “Red Wave,” to the Democratic...

In recent years, figures within the Republican Party have broken from conservative economic orthodoxy to advocate for increasingly...

In 2017, “truth” seems to stand on shaky ground. President Trump contests the messages put forward by media outlets, rejects reports from...

Katherine Mangu-Ward is the managing editor of Reason Magazine, the news arm of the libertarian policy center Reason Foundation. A...

Joe Scarborough is a former lawyer and the current host of the popular political commentary news program Morning Joe on MSNBC. He was a...

Since the Common Core’s creation in 2009, forty-five states and the District of Columbia have adopted the Common Core as a set of...

With the approaching November 4 general election, the Providence mayoral race remains, by most estimates, too close to call. Learn the...

Art by Ben Berke If a win-win situation ever existed in politics, the Rhode Island governor’s race might be it. Both candidates —...

On April 28, 2010, Florida Governor Charlie Crist left the Republican Party. His announcement came after one of the most sudden and...

The 113th United States Congress has earned the dubious distinction of the least popular in recent history. As recently as August 2014,...

“We are not going to be talking about polar bears and butterflies,” said political strategist Chris Lehane, “We are going to be talking...

Politicians like data. But trends are a different story — harder to confuse and more difficult to misapply, trends can spell out dire...

“You see homes in New Mexico where you have a crucifix and a picture of JFK on the wall, and now, President Clinton,” says New Mexico...

John Dennis is the Republican candidate for California’s twelfth Congressional district. Running on a libertarian platform, Dennis will...

Art by Katrina Machado “The definition of insanity, according to Einstein’s over-used proverb, is ‘doing the same thing over and over...

It seems that almost everyone is disappointed with October’s government shutdown. Tea Party sympathizers are unhappy that their strategy...

Governor Lincoln Chafee took the political world by surprise last Wednesday, announcing his decision not to seek reelection in the 2014...

It still remains unclear whether the time for immigration reform has come. But after the Senate on Monday voted 67-27 to proceed on...

There’s a saying that claims that if both sides of a debate are unhappy with you, you must be doing something right. President Obama, in...