Looking beyond the science of climate change may allow for a more nuanced approach to the growing global crisis.

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.

Some political philosophers suggest that arguments about civility are a distraction from the real political issues.

Why are battles over just who gets the honor of toasting new graduates—and what they say—always so heated?

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