Somerset, Massachusetts / / December 6, 2025 / CRF Publishing LLC Key Takeaways: American political polarization follows predictable historical cycles, with today’s divisions resembling the Civil War ...

This essay is a Cover Story selection, a weekly feature highlighting the top picks from the editors of America Media. Is politics bad? The headlines certainly suggest so. Violence in Gaza. The threat ...

In a talk in Boston in 1979, Marie Augusta Neal, S.N.D.deN., said that the whole of Catholic social teaching can be summed up in a quote from St. John the Baptist: “Whoever has two tunics should share ...

As Election Day nears, uncertainty remains high over almost every aspect of the presidential race. In swing states, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Harris continue to poll closely.

A series of new books unearth the long history of egalitarian politics. They also ask whether equality, instead of another political ideal, should be at the center of our politics? In the chilling ...

Since becoming the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominees, Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Tim Walz, have been holding campaign events in swing states across the country, gearing ...

On and off Princeton’s campus, Whig-Clio is recognized as a political force in the history of debating societies. Today, the society prides itself as “the oldest college and literary debating club in ...

Powerful men connected to Jeffrey Epstein are named, dissected and speculated about. The survivors, unless they work hard to step forward, remain a blurred mass in the background.

South Korea’s 2025 presidential election exposes the country’s deep gender gap in political representation. This gap is not due to complacency or cultural resignation. Korean women have long fought ...

Think polarization is new to American politics? Harvard research reveals counties with the highest slave populations in 1860 still predict conservative voting patterns today—and that’s just one of ...