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From Zohran Mamdani’s campaign to the US government’s “Halo” memes, fandom has become the defining language of US politics.

And there lies the challenge for anyone trying to write cohesively about American politics in 2025, this “We Didn’t Start the ...

During a week of tragedy marked by a massacre in Australia, a mass shooting at Brown University, and the brutal killing of a ...

Gerrymandering is almost as old as the US republic itself. It’s the process of drawing electoral district lines in sometimes absurd ways to fortify one political party at the expense of another.

When host Garry Kasparov created the Renew Democracy Initiative in 2017, the founding manifesto warned that “the liberal-democratic order is under attack from within and without.” Eight years later, ...

Zohran Mamdani, New York’s mayor-elect, is among the latest politicians to be tagged with the term, raising the question: ...

During my years as a Ph.D. student, I found myself for the first time in a familiar routine. For four years, my life settled into a predictable rhythm—weekly meetings with my supervisor, seminars to ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The U.S. is in a new era of political violence — one that feels starker than any since the fraught days of 1968, ...

American political culture is broken. Acts of political violence, like the recent killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk and its aftermath, are disturbing indicators of how fractured and ...

Only one American woman in politics, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, made Forbes’s 2025 list of most powerful women.

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