In conversation with KPBS, journalist Osita Nwanevu argues that the United States is not a true democracy and needs to ...

Last month, I was in a group exercise with prominent Jewish leaders. A participant began to explain how one American political movement could betray the conditions Jews need to be safe. Almost ...

President Donald Trump is, in my view, such a narcissistic, self-serving con artist that he and his cadre of bootlickers are easy targets for Democrats to blame for much of what is wrong in the ...

Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris (Photo credit: Eddy "Precise" Lamarre for rolling out) Vice President Kamala Harris has returned to public life with a stark assessment of American ...

Our political system is unable to build a bipartisan consensus to address the major issues of our times. Hyper-partisanship is rampant. As a result, faith in our government and our institutions is at ...

We asked readers whether young Americans today can still have a better life than their parents. They responded with stories ...

In a country where the red vs. blue binary dominates nearly every election, Elon Musk—the billionaire behind Tesla, SpaceX, and X (formerly Twitter)—has decided the two-party system isn’t working. His ...

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Schools are increasingly abandoning their mission as assimilators of immigrants because education elites no longer believe in that mission. But parents and the American public still do. The best way ...

American political culture is broken. Acts of political violence, like the recent killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk and its aftermath, are disturbing indicators of how fractured and ...