In an era of hyper-polarization and fast-paced digital communication, political conversations are happening more often than ever before....

Four days after the election of Donald Trump, an article  in the New York Times opened with the ominous statement “and then there was...

A mighty shock to our electoral system, November 8, 2016 will likely live on in infamy. Yet even before the election, 2016 had long...

Pirates — those ancient swashbucklers or their contemporary illegal-downloading counterparts — seldom conjure images of political savvy...

The week before the US presidential election, then-Democratic Vice Presidential Candidate Tim Kaine made history by delivering the first...

Help wanted: Facebook is seeking a Head of Public Policy in Bangkok, Thailand. Responsibilities include monitoring Thai politics, working...

Few Americans remember Amelia Bloomer, the fabled feminist who introduced women to the phenomenon of pants. In the 1850s, coinciding with...

This election cycle, voter turnout has been a major topic of discussion. With a presidential race that features two highly disliked yet...

92.95 percent. 93.30 percent. 95.70 percent. No, these figures are not Rotten Tomatoes ratings of Humphrey Bogart’s The Maltese Falcon....

The first round of elections for the Majlis, Iran’s national parliament, changed the dynamic for political reformists throughout the...

When most Americans think about choosing a party’s presidential nominee, they likely imagine voting booths and secret ballots, not...

Is it Super PACs or the liberal media that’s corrupting Washington? While most presidential candidates recognize the American political...

Côte d’Ivoire’s fraught history provides a crucial frame for Ouattara’s rise to power. Under the 33-year rule of President Felix...

In June of 2015, when the Supreme Court finally legalized same-sex marriage, many activists began celebrating the end of the culture...

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famed novel, The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway proclaims to Jay Gatsby, “’You can’t repeat the past.” Gatsby...

On November 7, as China’s President Xi Jinping and Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou met, the two men were left in a somewhat uncomfortable...

The media now drops the term “dynastic politics” almost as frequently as they mention Trump’s toupee. The January edition of the New York...

Fantasy football has exploded in the past decade, but daily fantasy sports, led mainly by two giants, FanDuel and DraftKings, allow fans...

Likening Donald Trump to Bernie Sanders may elicit a laugh. However, both presidential candidates are essentially running on a populist...

Across the United States, autumn is a time of seasonal preparation: for colder weather in the North, hurricane season in the Southeast,...