With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...

In an extract from The Conversation’s new book on democracy, we chart the origins of the parties that dominate politics today ...

Story continues below this ad Yet, in Dalit colonies in the Capital ... says the AAP’s freebies are “ruining the country”. “I am from the middle class. I get none of his freebies. And the free bus ...

TEN YEARS after it made welfare schemes focused on the poor the thrust of its politics, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has reached out to the middle class, whose enthusiastic support for its ...

Within-group pressures also create stronger feelings of belonging among those who conform to the group’s internal norms, such as which political positions to support. In turn, stronger feelings ...

As the second Trump era begins, I want to take a step back from the news to lay out the major political story lines that my colleagues and I will be watching over the next year. Here they are ...

Gov. Tim Walz, shown in December, proposes a two-year state budget that slows spending on the two biggest things the state spends on — health care for the elderly and public education. (Alex ...

The Fargo Public School District says they had to release all students at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday morning from Discovery Middle School, because of a malfunction to their heat pump system. The district ...

Advisers and allies are privately deliberating Vice President Harris’s next steps as she prepares to leave office Monday facing an uncertain future after an unprecedented year. Harris, who ...

In November, a chasm opened in the middle of one of the most popular online reading spaces. It started after the election, as political chatter bled into BookTok. On one side of the app ...

The middle class is stranded in a political muddle between oligarchs extracting rent and parties wrenching rent for votes. Young Kevin is a member of India’s proud and hard-working middle class ...

including the crossings and reconstruction" The Palestinian Presidency on Friday claimed "full legal and political jurisdiction over Gaza," according to a statement carried by the official WAFA ...