As accusations of genocide in Gaza mount against Israel, NPR looks at how the term is defined legally and why previously ...

The Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on dissent, using Charlie Kirk’s assassination and other flashpoints to justify a sweeping authoritarian project. The Trump administration is ...

The Trump administration has made no secret of its desire to upend the Department of Education as it currently functions. It plans to lay off at least half of the department's workforce, more than ...

Emma Shortis is Director of International and Security Affairs at The Australia Institute, an independent think tank. History’s path is never linear. But its turns can be very sharp. It is rare to be ...

Mr. Dionne is a contributing Opinion writer. Politics are often distorted by arguments rooted in false choices. It’s hard to find a better example than the one Democrats keep wrestling with: Should ...

A rousing defense of public education as the cornerstone of American democracy, by the woman attacked by the far right as "the most dangerous person in the world" Attacks on schools and teachers have ...

Mr. Campante is a professor of economics at Johns Hopkins. Mr. Levitsky is a professor of government at Harvard. On Thursday, the Brazilian Supreme Court did what the U.S. Senate and federal courts ...