In the minutes after an immigration agent shot and killed a driver in Minneapolis on Jan. 7, graphic bystander videos of the ...

This week, guest host Eric Boehm is joined by Lauren Hall, a political science professor at the Rochester Institute of ...

Washington’s partisan dysfunction is accelerating rapidly, putting the nation’s democratic institutions and norms under tremendous strain and endangering America’s global leadership. Just in the past ...

There were many issues on the table in the 2024 election. The most fundamental one, though, was the contest between the moral code of the West and its chief rival. Nothing is more central to Western ...

In the summer, I wrote “Tribalism in Politics” and made some suggestions for overcoming it. My article was motivated by a valedictorian’s speech at a graduation ceremony in Kentucky. Cheers turned to ...

There is the small matter of a U.S. presidential election coming up on November 5, an election that some are calling the most consequential in living memory. Two sides, two candidates, with vastly ...

From left to right: Joe Donahue, JP Miller, Mike Spain, and Roger Berkowitz. The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are The Empire Report’s ...

“Is America now the kind of society that can allow a black—of whatever pedigree—to become the most powerful human being on earth, the commander of the greatest military in history?” Mr. Steele asked. ...

Economist Arnold Kling’s The Three Languages of Politics: Talking Across the Political Divides from 2019 is a small book full of big insights. It posits the theory that ideologies speak in distinct ...

I take issue with Bruce Spaniol's letter of Nov. 13 ("City remains a decaying backwater.") First of all, although parts of it always have been and always will be decaying, I do not believe Pittsfield ...