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

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.

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 ...

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

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

The Culture Cycle shows how people can make, unmake, and remake culture with a shared blueprint and use key social and ...

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

Two assassination attempts on President Trump. The assassination of a Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband and the wounding of others. The shooting death of a top healthcare executive. The killing ...