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Americans keep using a political buzzword—without knowing what it means.

A new biography reveals how the drug-addled essayist legitimized our excitement for murder.

Their policies on women's issues matter more than their gender does.

Jo Cox's murder and the pro-Brexit campaign's Trumpian politics have some fearing for the country's future.

Britain isn't the only country wary of the union. Can the EU survive left-wing populism and right-wing nationalism?

A dispatch from the front lines of Europe's immigration crisis

Not since the 1600s has the English establishment been so politically threatened in its heartland

Imperial nostalgia invades American television

The weird history of the female title