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The violence at the White House Correspondents' Assn. dinner on Saturday underscores how dangerous this political moment is in the United States.

No campaign or party will pass on the power of A.I. to manipulate. Trust, the key to democracy and community and already ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — As Ohio heads into a busy spring election season, several key deadlines, law changes and government processes are set to take shape throughout April. From voter registration cutoffs ...

A little-known Supreme Court case that just vacated the corruption conviction of a local official raises a crucial question: Will the kind of influence peddling now ubiquitous in politics become ...

The books gathered here consider what is handed down and what survives. In "I Give You My Silence," Mario Vargas Llosa listens for the sound of a nation in its songs, tracing cultural memory where ...