Plato never wrote "The Republic." Ancient editors added a subtitle clarifying the work's true focus: individual psychology ...

It’s useful to think of our engagement with algorithms as a social contract. Political theorists have long used the social contract as a device to explain why individuals submit to the authority of a ...

Pluribus writer Gordon Smith likes a fan theory that claims the hive mind is a metaphor for Carol’s alcohol problem.

Smith acknowledges another prominent theory that the show is commenting on political division, but there’s an under-discussed ...

Italian workerism had a big influence on the postwar left. As one of its key thinkers, Mario Tronti had to make sense of a ...

The Indiana Klan peaked under Stephenson, who was known as a spellbinding orator. He used churches to recruit. Stephenson, ...

It's the first time in NBC News polling across five different violent incidents that there has been bipartisan agreement ...

The biggest lesson of this month’s sweeping Democratic election victories is that President Donald Trump is continuing to cast an outsize shadow over every other election during his presidential term.

The result is a relentless one-way cultural ratchet that amplifies Democratic sins and minimizes Republican vices. It ...

Even in cases like Luigi Mangione’s, the intentions of assassins are dwarfed by the meanings we project onto them.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with domestic extremism correspondent Odette Yousef about Tucker Carlson's interview with white nationalist and holocaust denier Nick Fuentes and the rift it's creating.

For the first time in five years, more Americans trust Democrats rather than Republicans to keep the U.S. prosperous, according to a new Gallup poll. But, the GOP has the advantage when it comes to ...