Penn’s History Department is adding a new political history concentration, giving students the opportunity to explore the evolution of political institutions and state powers on a national and global ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The issue of abortion had a long-complicated history both before and after the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision, making abortion legal nationwide. It is a historical ...

LEWISTON, Maine – In October, the professor in my American Parties, Campaigns, and Elections class read aloud some politicians’ quotes about their opponents and asked us to guess who said them. Some ...

The Republican Party of 2024 belongs to Donald Trump and to MAGA. But the populist right once viewed the GOP very differently. At the second annual Conservative Political Action Conference in 1975, ...

When scholars from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History attend one of these gatherings, as they do each election, they save everything from hats to buttons to umbrellas to soap Naomi ...

February 15, 2024; North Carolina — While the current presidential race showcases the country's rawest divisions, the new narrative podcast Landslide, launching on February 22, reveals how our ...

The pendulum will swing back. It is a phrase invoked repeatedly, with variation, since Donald Trump’s reelection last November. Cable news anchor Chris Cuomo, Senator Angus King, and pollster Nate ...

The founder of Wikipedia, the peer-edited online encyclopedia, has launched a new political wiki site, saying it’s “time for politics to become more intelligent.” Jimmy “Jimbo” Wales launched the ...

Despite the insistence of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that this year’s tournament will remain apolitical, diplomatic tensions are already rising in Paris. In Israel’s soccer match on ...

Taylor Swift has officially endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election. After months of speculation over who Swift would endorse, the Grammy-award winning singer took to Instagram ...