Americans love to complain about gridlock in Washington and partisan warfare between presidents and Congress. Yet the record suggests that unified party government is no panacea.
Americans have developed an admirable fondness for books, food, and music that preprocess other cultures. But for all our enthusiasm, have we lost our taste for the truly foreign?
There is more than one way to get a rogue state to change its ways.
A Princeton political scientist reveals that many of our worst fears about America’s voters are true.
The case for universal pre-kindergarten isn’t as strong as it seems.
From afar, America’s presidential contests often look more like playground antics than a shining example of democracy. But looks can be deceiving.
For more than a century, the Oxford English Dictionary has dominated language lovers’ bookshelves. Now it is online, and a new edition may never see book covers again. In the digital age, will the OED remain a cultural cornerstone?
“Pollsters and pundits” has become a dismissive epithet in modern politics. Pollsters, at least, deserve much better.
The antidote to frenzied partisanship won’t be found in politics as usual but in problem-solving leaders who govern from the center.
Global warming is shrinking Greenland’s ice sheet—and heating up its movement for independence from Denmark.