Politics doesn't just unfold in documents and legislation—it also takes shape off the record in social environments.

U.S. presidents have held the right to pardon crimes since the country’s founding, and they have exercised it often with ...

It seems counter-intuitive that many US voters who identify as having Latino heritage are in favour of strict restrictions on migration from Latin America.

A day that began with the outgoing president’s pardon of lawmakers and his own family ended with the incoming president’s ...

His ‘weaponization’ executive order begins with a list of misleading accusations against the Biden administration.

Trump is joining Republican efforts to change how the population is counted—which is used for allocating congressional seats.

Trump's trade policy blends aggressive tariffs, legal manoeuvring and transactional diplomacy. But could he really blow up the global trade system?The Trump team make the mistake of thinking about the ...

In his inaugural address, President Donald Trump promised a new golden age, casting himself as a uniter. But for a speech ...

Of course, there is much more than just those three steps to saving a democracy. In the Democracy Playbook, we lay out four ...

President Trump's second inauguration address featured many of the same bleak portraits of the United States as his first.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to Northwestern University political science professor Jeffrey Winters about what some have called the oligarchy shaping American politics and society.