After covering the 2024 campaign cycle, here are five points and eight charts that can help explain where American politics is today, and perhaps where it’s going. How close? Start with the ...

It’s not “the economy, stupid;” it’s the noncollege voter. This week, we look at how Trump has solidified the educational ...

Actor Denzel Washington shares his take on American politics and explains why we're all "slaves to information" in today's ...

To help understand them, here’s a guide to the five ballot initiatives that will tell us the most about American politics — and why they’re important. Amendment 3, Florida: The latest in the ...

The American political system may cultivate “out-group ... In an interview, he explained that he thinks Trump has taken cues ...

Today, Explained host Noel King spoke with Mason to understand how the American electorate got to this point and how we can get back to a more civil politics. Below is an excerpt of the ...

you can’t understand American politics. Nowhere have I seen this phenomenon better analyzed, explained and deconstructed than Polarized by Degrees.’ Amy Walter, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, The Cook ...

But they do share a fundamental dilemma with their French forebears: Defining yourself in terms of an old order and its enemies makes it difficult to explain the sort of future you want to build.

One of the most important and controversial books in modern American politics, The Emerging Republican Majority (1969) explained how Richard Nixon won the White House in 1968—and why the Republicans ...