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Available reporting and analyses indicate that most sources identify right-wing or far-right actors as responsible for the bulk of politically motivated, extremist violence in and around 2024; multipl...
Political violence in the United States has risen markedly since 2016 and experts say 2024–25 represent the sharpest surge in decades, with some datasets showing roughly 300 cases between the January ...
Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016 by securing a narrow Electoral College majority despite losing the national popular vote, flipping several Midwestern “blue wall” states that decided the Electo...
The claim that liberal democracy’s commitment to tolerate even vicious, propagandistic criticism will inevitably “” is neither self-evident nor uniformly true; political theory and comparative researc...
’s presidency is widely criticized for concentrating power, curtailing political freedoms, and enabling a system of selective law enforcement and corruption that benefits allies; critics also blame hi...
The United States today faces political stressors that scholars and journalists trace to long-standing structural shifts—polarization, institutional strain, and the media-technology environment—rather...
Term extensions — especially removal or weakening of term limits — have repeatedly appeared in documented cases of democratic backsliding where executives consolidated power by changing rules or using...