The United States is regarded, rightly, as the standard-bearer for liberal (in the classical sense) perseverance and civil peace in the modern age. But from this country’s own revolution to the Civil ...

Experts on political violence said the factors shaping the current moment are clear — and similar to those that shaped past ...

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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.

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The murder of Charlie Kirk last week follows a litany of violent acts against political targets. Historian Jon Meacham talks ...

EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration is turning its attention to the Smithsonian Institution, accusing the taxpayer-funded museum complex of using federal dollars to promote what it calls "one-sided, ...

Hi there, and welcome to the first edition of BuzzFeed's Political WTF?! series. Every month, I'll be rounding up some of the most outrageous, shocking, and absurd moments under the Trump ...

This action followed an April executive order from President Donald Trump titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to Our American History,” that emphasized a positive view of history in the form of ...