American politics has long personalized its violence. Time and again, history's advance has been imagined to depend on silencing or destroying a single figure.

Last week’s attack on worshippers at an LDS Church exposes, once more, the lingering animosity Latter-day Saints receive from ...

An author and researcher visiting Normal this week argues the meaning of “sanctuary” is much deeper than the political ...

Teachers must become the bridge-building models their students will emulate. Research confirms what simple intuition would ...

Black hair has been through more drama than a season finale of Scandal. From braids that carried secret maps during slavery to the never-ending debate over natural vs. relaxed, our hair has been both ...

In the past five years alone, public figures across the ideological spectrum have been targeted. America has seen eras of ...

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is facing heightened scrutiny from President Donald Trump for her handling of the anti-ICE riots gripping the city, which follows a history of political scandals and ...

In 1930, Wessel was murdered by Communists, although the incident resulted from a tangled chain of events involving his ...

For the first time in seven years, the federal government could shut down. As of Friday morning, Republicans and Democrats ...

The pendulum will swing back. It is a phrase invoked repeatedly, with variation, since Donald Trump’s reelection last November. Cable news anchor Chris Cuomo, Senator Angus King, and pollster Nate ...

Quentin Skinner and the contested history of liberty. Over a long career, Skinner has sought to reclaim the idea of republican liberty for the modern age. But his work also raises the question: free ...

A recent repatriation from Australia to Cambodia shows how this process can reinforce oppressive powers, and further ...