Politicians from both sides of the aisle have sought to stake a claim to the evocative power of the Kennedy legend. What is it about Camelot?

As a society becomes increasingly unstable, linguistic innovation happens more rapidly.

The political term "alt-right" is all the rage now, but it's not so clear what it means. Looking at one of its antecedents may help.

Before Walt Whitman was a famous poet, he was a scandalous poet, but before even all that he was in the thick of local and national politics.