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From 2016 to 2020 Donald J. Trump served as forty-fifth president of the United States; now, he has secured his reelection ...

Democracy depends on the free exchange of ideas. Help sustain it with a tax-deductible donation today. Contrary to both far ...

On a state visit to Japan in May 2016, Barack Obama delivered a speech in Hiroshima that won immediate praise from Terumi Tanaka, at the time the secretary general of Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese ...

Events of the past decade have prompted frenzied discussion of the state of democracy across the globe. In countries across Europe, Latin America, and Asia—as well as, of course, in the United ...

I first arrived in Frankfurt, in this city of immigrants and exiles, in the fall of 1980, as a foreign student and scholar whose life was forever changed by her encounter with it. In Frankfurt I met ...

Stephen Kantrowitz is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of History, African American Studies, and American Indian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of More Than ...

Anna Romina Guevarra is Founding Director and Associate Professor of Global Asian Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago and a Public Voices Fellow of the OpEd Project. She is author of ...

F. Daniel Hidalgo is Assistant Professor of Political Science at MIT.