Of all the audacious tasks the new Trump administration and its congressional allies have taken on, perhaps the most intense and far-reaching are their efforts to go after the so-called deep state ...

Denver-based Democracy team reporter Nick Riccardi spent weeks working with real estate agents to find people who had recently moved to Idaho because it was politically conservative and to Colorado ...

People from across America came together, whether it was fire trucks rushing up from Alabama or people from the Midwest ...

It balks at making any grand conclusions about the state of America or how to heal our divisions, unless there’s a message in the red-state character played by Gilpin cauterizing her torso wound ...

National writer Matt Sedensky wanted to find a way to tell their story for a concluding installment in the series Divided America. The yearlong assessment of America’s national disunity comprised more ...

Book of the Week. Scholar James Shapiro's timely exploration of what Shakespeare's plays reveal about the US, from Revolutionary times to the present day.

Trump began his address by declaring "America is back": The speech offered ample reminders of how the second-term Republican president has already tested the limits of executive authority in ...

America’s political parties weren’t supposed to wield the power they have today. In fact, George Washington warned us about ...

During the 1920s American society was very divided. Issues of morality, immigration, politics and race highlighted key fundamental differences. These tensions deeply affected people’s lives and ...