At a time when civic knowledge is in decline, political scientist Jeffrey Sikkenga makes the case that the ...

At a time when many Americans struggle with economic insecurity, sociologist Jessica Calarco offers an exploration of how ...

At a time when Americans seem more divided than ever, author Yuval Levin offers a compelling argument for ...

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Empty office buildings. Workforce changes allow for more remote work. American downtowns are struggling. The pandemic-led changes in ...

Perhaps no extant product of the U.S. Constitution has received more bipartisan animus than the Electoral College. Since ...

Is democracy in trouble? Many Americans believe so: recent polls consistently rank "threats to democracy" as one of ...

Some 40 million people in the American West rely on water from the Colorado River. But the river’s ...

The story often told is that rural America is in decline, and that rural Americans are resentful of ...

Inflation in America is happening for the first time in forty years. Why have prices gone up and ...

Emancipation in America is often presented as a single and singular undertaking. But Professor Kris Manjapra's new book, Black ...

What is the museum’s role in society? How does – and can – the museum function as a ...

In her book America's Philosopher: John Locke in American Intellectual Life, Claire Rydell Arcenas seeks to better understand and illuminate the ...

Do open primaries and ranked choice voting have the potential to improve American elections, or will they create ...

In his book One Person, One Vote, Nick Seabrook, an authority on constitutional and election law, examines the question ...

In his book The Quest for Character, Massimo Pigliucci asks: can good character be taught? Through an exploration ...

Did tribal governments and indigenous political theories affect the Founding Fathers and the United States Constitution? If so, ...

In his book Authority and Freedom: A Defense of the Arts, Jed Perl argues that “authority and freedom ...

The Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States was formed by President Joe Biden's Executive ...

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