Politics

President-Elect Joe Biden faces four enormous, interconnected crises: a crumbling economy, a raging global pandemic, systemic racial injustice, and a violent insurrection to overturn the November 2020...

The new president of Mexico—Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO)—assumed the executive branch of a country plagued with social issues: high homicide rates, widespread corruption, and dismally low approval...

Called “sometimes brilliant and often moving” by Kirkus Reviews, Richard Lyons’ history writing draws on a lifetime of literary work spanning screenwriting, essays and poetry. A graduate of Loyola...

1. Trump and the Republicans in office who support him are fiscally irresponsible. After just a couple of years of Republican control of the White House, Senate, and House of Representatives, the US deficit...

Dear Western Philosophy, It’s been a while since I wrote to you. Last time we talked I said some pretty harsh things to you. I said you were racist because you looked down on your cousins – Asian...

As a young man, I was primed, by both instinct and education, to become a conservative. My late father was chairman of the local Republican Party. I was raised on an intellectual diet of the Bible and the...

Summary: With New Federalism and the neoliberal ethos of reduced government, states will become increasingly distinct and autonomous. Donald Trump may have promised to “make America great again,” however,...