The day she was elected New York's attorney general, Letitia James blasted President Donald Trump as a “con man” and ...

American politics has long personalized its violence. Time and again, history's advance has been imagined to depend on silencing or destroying a single figure.

For the first time in seven years, the federal government could shut down. As of Friday morning, Republicans and Democrats are still in a blame-casting game that has lasted since Senate Democrats ...

In the past five years alone, public figures across the ideological spectrum have been targeted. America has seen eras of ...

Charlie Kirk’s assassination fits into American history. How does it fit into our politics? Credit...Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images Supported by By Jia Lynn Yang Jia Lynn Yang, a former national editor, ...

In 1930, Wessel was murdered by Communists, although the incident resulted from a tangled chain of events involving his ...

Others similarly weighed in. Whoopi Goldberg on “The View” declared that Americans solve political disagreements peacefully: “This is not the way we do it.” Yet other awful episodes come immediately ...