Rather, it was consistently challenged and never preordained. The history of American politics in the postwar Sunbelt resembles a roller-coaster of partisan and ideological adaptation and ...

President-elect Donald Trump over the weekend suggested the US should retake the Panama Canal, an idea that was immediately ...

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“By commuting the sentences of 37 individuals on death row, President Biden has taken the most consequential step of any ...

Historian Rebecca L. Davis has heard a lot of false claims about the history of sexuality. She joins us to explain why that ...

The newly discovered memo, written in March 1994 by Wayne Merry, chief of the U.S. Embassy’s internal politics division at ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground ... The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum. And unlike many other quality news ...