In the summer, I wrote “Tribalism in Politics” and made some suggestions for overcoming it. My article was motivated by a valedictorian’s speech at a graduation ceremony in Kentucky. Cheers turned to ...

Politicians are well aware that tribes are the sources of national power, identity, and political strength. They know as well that tribalism is a weapon for ...

My father visited me once while I was working for Congress, and I took him to the D.C. Armory to see the marching bands perform. This was a brilliant stroke on my part as a son, as my father loves ...

There were many issues on the table in the 2024 election. The most fundamental one, though, was the contest between the moral code of the West and its chief rival. Nothing is more central to Western ...

President William Ruto has cautioned leaders against promoting tribal and divisive politics, saying Kenya has moved beyond ethnic divisions and exclusion.Speaking in Bondo, the President said there ...

There is the small matter of a U.S. presidential election coming up on November 5, an election that some are calling the most consequential in living memory. Two sides, two candidates, with vastly ...

From left to right: Joe Donahue, JP Miller, Mike Spain, and Roger Berkowitz. The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are The Empire Report’s ...

“Is America now the kind of society that can allow a black—of whatever pedigree—to become the most powerful human being on earth, the commander of the greatest military in history?” Mr. Steele asked. ...

Economist Arnold Kling’s The Three Languages of Politics: Talking Across the Political Divides from 2019 is a small book full of big insights. It posits the theory that ideologies speak in distinct ...