In the United States, as in Europe, the advent of national citizenship has mirrored and fueled the growth and centralization of state power overall.

President Donald Trump promised voters an administration that wouldn't waste precious American lives and taxpayer treasure on ...

While the United States was for decades the undisputed and widely trusted leader of Western democracies, the rise of populist ...

The brief experiment with a department of education was born in 1867 and enacted by Southern Democrat President Andrew ...

Director David Lynch attends the Twin Peaks screening during the 70th annual Cannes Film Festival. (Image has been converted to black and white.) (Photo by Amy T. Zielinski/Getty Images ...

Donald Trump has withdrawn the United States from the World Health Organization. Experts say it will be a lose-lose for the US and global health. Donald Trump has signed an executive order to ...

This interview was originally published June 25, 2018. We’re rerunning it following David Lynch’s death at 78. What he did, as is often the case, is unusual. Room to Dream alternates reported ...

David Lynch, Hollywood's most prominent surrealist filmmaker, died this week, leaving a void in our world that probably won't be filled any time soon. Lynch was simply too singular of a ...

FILE - David Lynch appears at the Governors Awards in Los Angeles on Oct. 27, 2019. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would ...

By Manohla Dargis It felt fitting that my city was burning when I heard the news Thursday that David Lynch had died ... He went to school here, attending the American Film Institute (“Eraserhead ...

Meditation and photography - The dark side of the American dream was a Lynchian leitmotif, but he strayed from the theme in "The Straight Story" to tell the true tale of a man who rode his ...

“He will be greatly missed.” “David Lynch was an American original. And the stories are true – as a foundational Fellow at the American Film Institute, he lived in the stables of Greystone ...