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 ...

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Timothy Garton Ash, a professor of European studies at the University of Oxford, predicted in a new essay for the Guardian that Americans have only 400 days to save their democracy. “Hysterical ...

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 ...

The EU's new political advertising regulations, which come into force in October 2025, resulted in Meta and Google platforms choosing to discontinue political and social advertising throughout Europe.

On Oct. 25, 2023, Rep. Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, stood before his colleagues and the world in the well of the U.S. House of Representatives. It was his first speech since his unlikely rise from ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Karrin Vasby Anderson, Colorado State University (THE CONVERSATION) In an ...

Turning Point USA founder and president Charlie Kirk was shot and killed on Wednesday during an event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. He was 31 years old. Kirk was shot in the neck while ...