Ever since Vice President Kamala Harris became the Democratic presidential nominee, her role as a member of the Biden administration has been questioned. Former President Donald Trump said “Why hasn’t ...

Americans’ understanding of basic facts about the U.S. government declined for the first time in six years, as fewer than half in a new survey could name all three branches of government. The ...

Teachers have taught through two impeachments, several contentious presidential elections, the rise in online misinformation, a pandemic, a racial reckoning that launched nationwide protest movements, ...

The editorial cartoon printed on March 21 challenged the recall of my fourth-grade civics class where we learned the powers of government. In that class, we learned the U.S. federal government's ...

Congress, the people’s legislature, is messy and inefficient by the design of America’s founders, says Fresno State Professor Thomas Holyoke. Dreamstime TNS Editor’s note: This is the first in a ...

University of Iowa law professor Josephine Gittler has founded the “Alliance for Civic Education of Iowa” to address what she sees as a “very big” problem. “There are many young people here in Iowa ...