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Public trust survives only when the law is enforced with discipline and restraint, because without professional standards and civic responsibility on both sides of the badge, accountability collapses ...

A survey of more than 1,400 local officials found that local governments are “largely insulated from the harshest effects of polarization.” ...

Mainland Southeast Asia’s strategic equilibrium ultimately rests on the mutually reinforcing foreign policy approaches of ...

"Davos and Munich are important because they provide opportunities for sustained, face-to-face dialogue among leaders grappling with the hardest problems of our time," writes ...

Support for seceding from the United States has increased in nine states since 2024, even as nationwide support for such action has decreased, according to a new poll.

Local government leaders saw K-12 schools as the most valuable institution for positive effects on civic participation in a ...

Midterm elections often act as a brake on presidential power, but extreme partisan polarization calls into question whether the 2026 midterm will serve its usual role.— However, despite growing ...

Ohio University faculty member Nancy Manring reflects on the ideas behind her new book, “A World of Wounds,” and what our dialogue around environmental issues reveals about conflict and cooperation.

The electoral system used by many global democracies eliminates gerrymandering and has been shown to give more equal ...

Scroll through social media long enough and a pattern emerges. Pause on a post questioning climate change or taking a hard ...

The Tampa Bay Lightning unveiled a special jersey players will wear for Black Heritage Night at the end of February, which is Black History Month.