Quentin Skinner and the contested history of liberty. Over a long career, Skinner has sought to reclaim the idea of republican liberty for the modern age. But his work also raises the question: free ...

Think polarization is new to American politics? Harvard research reveals counties with the highest slave populations in 1860 ...

Mercieca is a professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at Texas A&M University and the author of Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump. “We’re going to ...

With a curriculum that includes slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, two world wars and the Civil Rights Movement, American history teachers are used to venturing into emotionally charged subjects.

WLRN has partnered with PolitiFact to fact-check Florida politicians. The Pulitzer Prize-winning team seeks to present the true facts, unaffected by agenda or biases. As law enforcement investigates ...

The pendulum will swing back. It is a phrase invoked repeatedly, with variation, since Donald Trump’s reelection last November. Cable news anchor Chris Cuomo, Senator Angus King, and pollster Nate ...

When the news filtered through to British viewers late on Saturday evening that someone had shot Donald Trump, the initial reaction was shock. It is understood that American politics, even more than ...

Black hair has been through more drama than a season finale of Scandal. From braids that carried secret maps during slavery to the never-ending debate over natural vs. relaxed, our hair has been both ...

The assassin’s bullet that grazed Donald Trump’s ear thankfully missed its mark. But that can’t be allowed to erase the long, ugly history of Trump’s dalliance with violence. Secret Service agents ...

On September 19, the administration of the University of Dhaka decided to ban all kinds of student-teacher-staff politics on campus. Since the ouster of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s autocratic ...

This semester’s UF Student Government elections will be one of the most boring in recent years. After a successful gerrymander, Vision Party is guaranteed to sweep the 37 off campus seats through the ...