In conversation with KPBS, journalist Osita Nwanevu argues that the United States is not a true democracy and needs to ...

Today, we celebrate our independence from the British and the establishment of our own political institutions. It just so happens that there is also an important election taking place today: British ...

The Republican Party of 2024 belongs to Donald Trump and to MAGA. But the populist right once viewed the GOP very differently. At the second annual Conservative Political Action Conference in 1975, ...

Elon Musk has officially declared his intent to launch a new political party, an announcement long on bravado but short on substance. Our Founding Fathers didn’t even want political parties, which ...

President Donald Trump is, in my view, such a narcissistic, self-serving con artist that he and his cadre of bootlickers are easy targets for Democrats to blame for much of what is wrong in the ...

Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris (Photo credit: Eddy "Precise" Lamarre for rolling out) Vice President Kamala Harris has returned to public life with a stark assessment of American ...

Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up The reaction to the recent resignation of Supreme Court Justice ...

Far-right extremists have a plan to shatter democracy’s guardrails, giving presidents almost unlimited power to implement policies that will hurt everyday Americans and strip them of fundamental ...

In my last article about our political divide, I wrote, “Political views bring out the best and the worst in us. I know I’m a work in progress myself. Christians must repent of their pride and anger, ...

Schools are increasingly abandoning their mission as assimilators of immigrants because education elites no longer believe in that mission. But parents and the American public still do. The best way ...