2028 will mark another milestone in American history: The first presidential race since 2012 without Donald Trump on the ballot. Since becoming the GOP nominee a decade ago, Trump has reshaped both the Republican Party and U.S. politics writ large.

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The U.S. is in a new era of political violence — one that feels starker than any since the fraught days of 1968, experts said. Most Americans disapprove of political ...

There is a pervasive feeling—rising up from the precarious working poor, through the illusory middle class, and now even brushing the edges of the elite—that something in America is broken. The carefully curated illusions of American life, which held ...

Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville said in a Monday op-ed that President Trump “has broken the cardinal rule in American politics” amid economic anxiety about the president’s tariffs. “In what will certainly be recorded as one of the ...

When, exactly, was America great? For as long as Donald Trump has touted the MAGA slogan, he has been cagey about the answer. But recent weeks have suggested a few possibilities. One is the Gilded Age of the late nineteenth century, when tariffs, crony ...

Julio Cortez / AP Many of us are feeling anxious today and for good reason. Politics has never been an easy business, but this season has been so raw and nasty that fear and loathing, to borrow a phrase, are now a constant low hum in our lives. There is ...

Republican success this year has some pundits wondering whether this election represents a realignment that will keep the GOP in power for the foreseeable future. That’s possible, but in every election over the past 20 years, except 2012, one of the ...

My grandmother first visited the U.S. as a young German girl in 1964 as a Girl Scout camp leader, and she still tells me about it every time I mention that I'm a visiting international student at Duke. It was one of the greatest adventures of her life, and ...

American political culture is broken. Acts of political violence, like the recent killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk and its aftermath, are disturbing indicators of how fractured and dysfunctional American politics is today. Across the political ...

During my years as a Ph.D. student, I found myself for the first time in a familiar routine. For four years, my life settled into a predictable rhythm—weekly meetings with my supervisor, seminars to attend, research projects to juggle, students to teach.