Somerset, Massachusetts / / December 6, 2025 / CRF Publishing LLC Key Takeaways: American political polarization follows predictable historical cycles, with today’s divisions resembling the Civil War ...

There is a pervasive feeling—rising up from the precarious working poor, through the illusory middle class, and now even brushing the edges of the elite—that something in America is broken. The ...

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, ...

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, ...

Norman Podhoretz, the influential longtime editor of Commentary magazine who helped shape the neoconservative movement and ...

Julio Cortez / AP Many of us are feeling anxious today and for good reason. Politics has never been an easy business, but this season has been so raw and nasty that fear and loathing, to borrow a ...

In 2025, Asians and Asian Americans reached historic milestones across politics, science, technology, and global culture.

The Biden-era board turned labor law into a political weapon. It’s time to rebuild a system that serves the American people, not partisan interests. For ...

Anthony Scaramucci (Founder and Managing Partner, SkyBridge Capital, former White House Communications Director, and author, ...

My grandmother first visited the U.S. as a young German girl in 1964 as a Girl Scout camp leader, and she still tells me about it every time I mention that I'm a visiting international student at Duke ...

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 ...

Two assassination attempts on President Trump. The assassination of a Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband and the wounding of others. The shooting death of a top healthcare executive. The killing ...