It feels like it's getting harder and harder to find areas of shared, consensus agreement when it comes to American politics, or hey, even geopolitics. Polarization has for the past several years been ...

The first time I met a practicing Muslim was my senior year in college. I was on a study abroad trip to Ghana, West Africa, for my last semester. Included in our group were three local students, all ...

In last week’s presidential election, one thing was certain: voter turnout was higher than ever. With 147 million Americans (and counting!) exercising their right to vote, participation in the great ...

Coming into first-year, I was really obsessed with the idea of like wanting to become a director in the narrative sense, but I think I just kind of had a real sudden shift away from narrative cinema ...

Subscribe to "In The Arena" on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts or Stitcher. Bruce Bond has always had a love of politics; he studied it in college and has found great value in political engagement.

Almost two decades ago, Megan Ranney’s life changed. It was a warm July night in Providence, Rhode Island, where she was working as an attending physician in an emergency department. And, as usual, ...

Letters edited for clarity and style: As co-founders of an organization focused on the state of our political discourse, we are not surprised by the results of the newly-released USA TODAY/Public ...

What are the first three words you think of when you hear college admission application? Go ahead, take a moment and write them down. I had my suspicions for how students would respond, but ...

Women passed tissues during a recent Friday service at the Islamic Society of Simi Valley to wipe tears as Imam Sheikh Omar Jubran prayed for persecuted Palestinians in Gaza. The following day, ...

My neighbors in leafy Cambridge, Mass., have in the past few years begun planting creeds in their gardens. You maybe have seen them—corrugated plastic signs that begin "We Believe" (or Credo, if you ...

Of all the dignitaries attending President Reagan's funeral, perhaps no one has traveled a more interesting road to get here than former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Gorbachev, who met with ...