U.S. voters seem poised to turn some historically red states purple and blue.

It’s just one of many efforts by Trump’s DOJ to try to exert federal control over election administration.” Jonathan Shorman ...

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Tolerance and forbearance are liberal virtues, but these are virtues in service of the deeper value of loving humanity.

Liberals have had their politics shaped by the horrors of history, and as a result, have developed a mature distaste for ...

Mencken line that “democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” ...

Beth Macy, the Democratic nominee to flip Virginia’s Sixth Congressional District, might have national name recognition, but ...

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Samuel G. Freedman is the author of 10 books, including Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights. He is a visiting fellow at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs ...

Polling for the Ohio governor’s election has shown Democrat Amy Acton consistently a few points ahead of her GOP opponent ...

In 1776, Thomas Paine wrote that “we have it in our power to begin the world over again.” I love this quote because it captures the romantic spirit of any good revolutionary movement. This kind of ...

Ilhan Omar's residence is continuous with President Donald Trump's birther politics and immigration obsessions, but it also touches on elemental constitutional issues—similar to the issues that once ...