Yascha Mounk’s new book “The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time” arrives at a crucial juncture for American liberalism. In this timely and incisive work, Mounk confronts the rising ...

“To be white in America,” Robert W. Terry wrote 50 years ago, “is not to have to think about it. Except for hardcore racial supremacists, the meaning of being white is having the choice of attending ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 05: Howard University students listen to polling results during an election night event for Democratic ...

This fall, I am teaching a seminar course on polarization. Despite my courses being subject to boycotts, my classes filled up in an ironic twist of fate. The class is intended to present a broad ...

Identity politics have played a significant role in shaping the landscape of American politics in recent years. This Washington D.C. polling station was packed. The line wrapped around the room – some ...

GOP leaders have a tough time with Black people and respect. From the insistence that former President Barack Obama was not a native-born U.S. citizen to the Republican Party going on the record with ...

California may soon elect its first Latino governor in modern history. Los Angeles voters nearly denied a second term to the city’s first female mayor. Not long ago, those developments would have ...

Karine Jean-Pierre, who served as press secretary in the Biden administration, is doing a round of interviews to plug her new book, Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party ...

When did you last test yourself for COVID-19? There was a time when plans were cancelled at the first sign of a sniffle. Four years later, the strange spell of COVID has lost its potency: The fever ...