A new study on the psychology of war justification reveals that common assumptions about political ideology and group identity may not hold true when people consider the morality of conflict. The ...

Opposition parties, the judiciary, the press, and civil-society groups aren’t destroyed, but over time they lose their life, ...

While many Democrats in Congress have ample courage and fiery messaging, the leadership—especially House and Senate Minority Leaders Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer—has been lackluster. California ...

The New York Times reports that a senior Department of Justice official recently “instructed more than a half dozen U.S. attorneys’ offices to draft plans to investigate” the Open Society Foundations ...

There’s no one way to measure when a movie enters the cultural bloodstream — I mean, when it does so as powerfully as a shot ...

New York Times columnist David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart of MSNBC join William Brangham to discuss the week in politics, ...

Days after the National Guard stormed into Los Angeles against the will of local officials, tanks rolled through the streets of Washington, D.C. for a showy military parade. It was billed as a ...

Though we Americans like to think of our country as a strong democracy, considerable backsliding has taken place in the last ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom said he is worried there will not be a presidential election in 2028, calling the Trump administration’s ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with M. Gessen about the Trump administration moves to take over Washington D.C., and what it could mean for the future.

Days after the National Guard stormed into Los Angeles against the will of local officials, tanks rolled through the streets of Washington, D.C. for a showy military parade. It was billed as a ...