Ready to make your mark on American government and law? You’re in the right place! UW’s American politics minor helps students gain new perspectives on American political systems, contemporary ...

a new project from the Pew Research Center paints a portrait of a complicated American electorate and reveals the fractures and fissures that exist not just between political parties, but within them.

One is the Gilded Age of the late nineteenth century, when tariffs, crony capitalism, and hard-and-fast racial hierarchies were the stuff of American politics. Another is the postwar Red Scare ...

Whether we like it or not, social media platforms have become key spaces for youth political expression. Yet young people’s engagement with politics on social media looks and feels different from ...

Closer to home, we see this playing out in the context of American oppositional politics. Domestic politics has become a matter of mutual aggravation and repellence. If the right is pro-life ...

that urges universities across the state to adopt rules on political protests and expression that advocates warn could prevent colleges from allowing demonstrations. Rep. Mark Cochran (R-Englewood ...

Might it finally be time for a broad-based American third political party? That’s a risky thought, looking at the wildly successful history of the U.S. two-party system, which has brought ...

The program has long held a special place in American politics, with an aide to then-Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill apparently the first to call it "the third rail of American politics." ...

effectively putting the ports under American control after President Donald ... discrete but competitive process in which ...

minorities and American politics. This episode was recorded before President Trump’s meeting on Friday in the Oval Office with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine. Below is a lightly edited ...

WASHINGTON - Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday defended President Donald Trump’s assertive stance on tariffs, arguing that "access to cheap goods is not the essence of the American ...