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 ...

The month, American politics has laid bare a truth too big to ignore: our modern politics is consumed by a hypocrisy so deep it threatens the very fabric of our democracy. On Sept. 10, that hypocrisy ...

Members of moral, political, and religious traditions share basic assumptions, fundamental principles, and central convictions about their associations and institutions. Since human beings are ...

Violence, or at least the threat of it, has been a part of American political life from the beginning of the nation. Our third vice president, after all, shot and killed our first treasury secretary.

Matthew Dallek is a historian and a professor of political management at George Washington University’s College of Professional Studies. Robert Dallek is a presidential historian. They are working on ...