American political culture is broken. Acts of political violence, like the recent killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk and its aftermath, are disturbing indicators of how fractured and ...

More than 30 years ago, sociologist James Davison Hunter coined the term "culture wars." Since then, those wars have poisoned American politics. James Davison Hunter, professor of religion, culture ...

America’s culture has been shaped by pivotal events across politics, music, technology, and social movements, with transformative moments in every generation redefining how Americans understand ...

Members of moral, political, and religious traditions share basic assumptions, fundamental principles, and central convictions about their associations and institutions. Since human beings are ...

The presidential race has exposed a fault line in American political culture over the deeply personal decision to have children. By Katie Rogers Katie Rogers is a White House reporter who covers ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The U.S. is in a new era of political violence — one that feels starker than any since the fraught days of 1968, ...

From his New Left days to his neoliberalism and embrace of interventionism, The Controversialist is a portrait of his own political trajectory and that of American liberalism too. Martin Peretz (R) ...

Even by the standards of American “political culture,” Thursday night’s presidential debate between US President Joseph Biden and former President Donald Trump was a spectacle of degradation, reaction ...

Following is the text of an essay on the American tradition of a foreign policy of ideas, adapted from the just-published “The American Way of Foreign Policy: Ideology, Economics, Democracy” and ...

Practical Steps To Build Strong Political Norms and Stop Political Violence As American democracy faces significant challenges, people must work together to help set healthy political norms and reject ...