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Unable to agree on how to interpret the American story, the country’s schools, universities, and political institutions have ...

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Supporters of both major U.S. political parties tend to claim their presidential candidate is the "real" Christian or the "better" Christian or just the "true" Christian. For a majority of white ...

President Biden’s decision to end his reelection campaign following 25 days of agonizing pressure from his own party may seem like yet another moment of chaos in an American democracy already buckling ...

Preserving our democracy is as urgent a task as ever, but the question is how. Democracy is getting to be one of those words that, at least in our day-to-day political debates, has become essentially ...

President Biden warns about the threat to democracy posed by Donald Trump in the campaign's first ad of 2024. PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: I've made the preservation of democracy the central issue of my ...

As the nation observes its 250th birthday, historians can help settle one present-day dispute: Is the United States a democracy or a republic? For years, advocates have argued the point. Yet the ...