As a historian who studies the impact of racism on democracy, what happened in Springfield, Illinois in 1908 helps clarify what Trump and Vance are trying to do in Springfield, Ohio today. Lying when ...

Joseph Kelly is a professor of literature and the director of Irish and Irish American Studies at the College of Charleston.

How to address projected shortfalls for both the Social Security and Medicare trust funds will become an increasingly important topic for the president and Congress during the next decade.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump defended his plans for steep tariffs on Tuesday, claiming economists who say that those higher costs would get passed onto consumers are incorrect and ...

Kamala Harris packed an arena Monday night in Erie, Pennsylvania, telling the crowd that Trump threatens health insurance for tens of millions of Americans with his platform to overhaul the Affordable ...

North Carolina, a battleground state, provides a microcosm in how partisans and others are trying to get young adults to the polls.

Both presidential campaigns are promising to grow jobs by expanding the U.S. manufacturing sector. So what do the people ...

A recent study recommended increases in Medicaid eligibility and other legislative measures to help improve health care ...

"Trump is 78, in questionable health and seems to find new enemies in every new meandering tirade. Who would escape his wrath ...

Despite an encouraging national dip in the past year, overdose deaths are still on the rise in many Western states as the ...

Floridians already pay the highest homeowners insurance premiums in the nation, and while the state’s top politicians contend ...

Christine Sexton has spent more than 30 years reporting on Florida health care, insurance policy, and state politics and has ...