The Trump administration has made no secret of its desire to upend the Department of Education as it currently functions. It plans to lay off at least half of the department's workforce, more than ...

Matt and Sam talk to Osita Nwanevu about his new book, The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding. Since the start of the Trump era over a decade ago, few words have ...

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Last school year, Massachusetts teacher Andrew Swan started to feel like the assignments he had long relied on to illustrate how government works for his students were falling short. In one, his 8th ...

Athens and Sparta were both powerful Greek city-states but their values, systems, and ambitions clashed violently. This video explores how deep-rooted ideological differences, rising tensions, and ...