President Donald Trump and others in his circle have portrayed political violence as a problem exclusively or mostly on the ...

The United States government has officially shut down as Congress and the White House failed to reach a funding deal. More ...

The fiery intellectual W.E.B. Du Bois and the young columnist Walter Lippmann were among the first to grasp a core feature of ...

So far, President Donald Trump’s second term in the White House has been largely defined by a series of directives that have ...

American politics has long personalized its violence. Time and again, history's advance has been imagined to depend on silencing or destroying a single figure.

Whether or not the government shuts down in a week, the United States is confronted with a series of potentially explosive ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Robert Pape, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, about Americans' changing attitudes toward political violence.

As gunshots pierced the air from high above, people in two different American cities this month found themselves running from a deadly shooter they could not see.

Welcome to our live coverage of US politics, which is grim today after yet another example of horrific political violence.

Dismissing candidates like Zohran Mamdani simply because of their youth is no longer viable. Millennial and Gen Z Americans ...

My uncle presciently anticipated the president’s restoration of the Department of War and his effort to change the Great Seal ...