Sophia McClennen, author of Trump Was a Joke, discusses how political satire decoded the chaos of the forty-fifth presidency.

In June 1950, Senator Margaret Chase Smith criticized Joseph McCarthy's anticommunist campaigns. She was the first of his colleagues to challenge his Red Scare rhetoric.

The health of our democracy depends on a free press. What happens when the thirst for profits, eyeballs, and clicks drives political coverage?

As outlets that welcome rational exchanges of ideas dwindle those that serve as echo chambers are exploding. What does that mean for free speech and the health of the US?

The incarcerated editor of The Nash News in North Carolina shares about the power of higher ed and his work at the prison newspaper.

Dogs have long played a big role in the White House.

There's no denying the whiteness of the state. But scholars cite other qualities that make Iowa more like the rest of the country.

What makes a name suddenly pop—and then die? Social scientists and historians have been puzzling over this for decades.

This month, I’m doing something a little different with my column: I’m sharing the system I use to write it, so that you can use or adapt my system.

For a public figure, a scandal is a predictable hazard of the trade. What's less predictable, however, is who survives one.