To appreciate the dramatic shift in President Donald Trump’s policy towards Ukraine, consider two scenes in the Oval Office, ...

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Alone among other leading democracies, our political system is designed to encourage these consistent violations of majority ...

President Donald Trump has done what he swore he would not do: involve the United States in a war in the Middle East. His supporters will tie themselves in knots (as Vice President J. D. Vance did ...

The founders of the initiative, the States Forum, say they hope to extend successful Democratic policies across states and ...

America has a major problem: nearly half of Americans -- 42% -- don't believe in America. According to Gallup, just 58% of ...

The Internal Revenue Service announced on Monday it is overturning a restraint on churches and other houses of worship that ...