As the countdown begins to the 250th anniversary of the nation's founding, what principles can unite these United States?

Students at Johns Hopkins University debated political decisions playing out in the U.S. Their emotional discussions reveal ...

When Corwin Smidt started doing research as a graduate student in the 1970s, he says “most of the academic field at the time thought religion had no real impact on politics.” But, less than a year ...

That may be the defining reality of current American politics, what the authors refer to as “calcification.” ... a professor of medicine at UC San Francisco who specializes in geriatrics.

We ask one professor why NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to Northwestern University political science professor Jeffrey Winters about what some have called the oligarchy shaping American politics and society.

The series includes professors who teach biology, writing, business, calculus, political science and sociology, and those stories can be read on the How I Teach website. In this story, Associate ...

“American political thought is … fundamentally shaped by these African American figures,” Professor of Political Science Juliet Hooker said, adding that contemporary conversations about democracy, ...

Fewer Americans feel a sense of national pride this year, according to a new poll released by the Fourth of July.

American Politics, Then & Now (AEI Press, 2010) is a collection of fifteen of Wilson’s most insightful essays–drawing on thirty years of his observations on religion, crime, the media ...