The U.S. Department of Education has awarded more than $150 million in grants to train K-12 teachers in civics education, but what does nonpartisan civics look like in these hyper-partisan times?

Civic education has emerged as a major front in the bitter clash spilling over into many domains between left and right in America. Since the civic-education battles revolve around the nation’s core ...

As we approach the 250th anniversary of the American founding, we must confront the hard truth that democracies are not self-executing. They require constant tending by informed, engaged citizens who ...

It is not an intrinsic indictment of today’s national government to say that the Framers of the U.S. Constitution would not recognize it. They were, after all, revolutionaries who threw off the mother ...

In a 2022 survey conducted by the Annenberg Public Policy Center, only 47% of American adults could name all three branches of the American government. As if that were not troubling enough, a 2021 ...

A striking new Gallup poll reveals a sobering truth: just 58 percent of Americans describe themselves as “extremely” or “very” proud to be American—the lowest level since the question was first posed ...

Democracy depends not just on officeholders, but on the quiet vigilance of institutional and civic actors—the novel “fourth ...

Our president has not committed a crime, nor is he a magician. He cannot singlehandedly fix what we have collectively broken ...

Paul G. Summers is an attorney. He is a former appellate and senior judge, district attorney general, and the attorney general of Tennessee. Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related ...

We live in anxious times. But many times in our past were far more anxious, and the reasons for anxiety then were more compelling. Consider, for example, the situation facing the world in the early ...