When Francine Verdine took a job as a clerk at the Internal Revenue Service in Houston in 1983, it was supposed to be a stopgap until something better came along. She didn’t expect that 42 years later ...

As longtime readers know, my academic background was in political science. The course I taught more often than any other is Intro to American Government. It’s a fun class to teach—most of the time.

Stay up to date with live coverage of the government shutdown Wednesday as the House will vote this evening on a bill to ...

Denise Smith began working for the federal government a half century ago, during President Richard Nixon's administration. She was still in high school when she accepted a post as a Navy intern in ...

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) - A Rockford political science professor has taught the same American Government class for years. He says the class consists of the ‘nuts and bolts’ and keeping up with current ...

Alexandra Fernandez, gets support from Jacob Bowling during his American Government class. Bowling, a 2023 graduate of UNG with a History degree and teaching certification, was a first-time S2C ...

A student checks a classmate's test during an American government class at the University of South Carolina Beaufort in Bluffton on Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024. In the Sandra Day O’Connor Institute’s ...