Fernando Morais’s Lula, a new biography of Brazil’s current third-term president, describes the tension on the morning of ...

Its potential to enhance civic engagement crucially depends on what policymakers want to learn from the public.

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Unions turned out for Harris, but Democrats can no longer expect them to deliver working-class voters.

I am baffled, as I was in 2016, as to why so many liberals are still shocked by Trump’s victory—and why, in their efforts to dissect what happened, they can’t get beyond their incredulity that so many ...

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Bonapartism was a movement born from the displacement of real interest by mere fantasies of interest.

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My grandmother was a good Catholic who didn’t go to college and had eight children. Her oldest child went to college and had one child, me. Your own family probably fits this pattern. In a decline ...

On a state visit to Japan in May 2016, Barack Obama delivered a speech in Hiroshima that won immediate praise from Terumi Tanaka, at the time the secretary general of Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese ...