Social scientists say they’ve seen an increase in the number of threats and incidents of harassment of public officials since ...

Six conservative Supreme Court justices have systematically recast religious liberty as a privilege to oppress.

Tim Kaine, Virginia’s Minnesota-born, Kansas-raised junior U.S. senator, rarely passes on an opportunity to share his adoptive state’s story with others. That’s because the Democrat believes that ...

The phrase appeals more to several demographics that strongly align with Trump, says Republican strategist Frank Luntz, ...

Milk is never just milk. It’s saturated with meaning, emotion and contradiction, and provokes strong responses in people.

After the Supreme Court appeared poised to weaken a key provision of the landmark civil rights law, both parties began to ...

There are three inevitabilities in life: death, taxes, and the developers behind a military shooter saying that their game isn’t political in nature. It was all but assured that we would see that last ...

Religion focuses on the unknown and the unseen. While religion has been a tremendous force for good, it has also poisoned politics and given rise to extremists who target “the other.” I remember first ...

We're joined now by NPR senior political contributor Ron Elving. Ron, thanks for being with us. RON ELVING, BYLINE: Good to be with you, Scott. SIMON: Have we reached the point in U.S. politics where ...

A new Alabama law on human smuggling, one of several bills on illegal immigration proposed by Republican legislators this year, takes effect Wednesday. The bill by Sen. Wes Kitchens, R-Arab, makes it ...

President Donald Trump is highlighting former President Joe Biden's use of an autopen, a device that mechanically replicates a signature. An autopen picture hangs in place of a portrait of Biden in ...

Pundits and politicians conceal the truth: it’s all around us, perpetrated by our political system itself. Georges Sorel, writing in 1908, gave a very different account of violence in his classic, ...