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An investigation of how Donald Trump defied expectations to win the presidency -- and what it suggests about how he will govern.

The symposium discussed the presidential election through the prism of the declining influence of fact-based reporting and the ascent of social media and consumer-driven digital discourse.

A year's worth of political philosophy from renowned Professor Emeritus of Political Science Charles Anderson. In covering everything from Plato to Marx, Anderson applies their theories to contemporary political, social and economic concerns in an engaging manner.

Pace Law School hosts a debate on gay marriage with David Blankenhorn, author of The Future of Marriage, and Evan Wolfson, author of Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality, and Gay People's Right to Marry.

In this lecture professor Michael B. McElroy introduces the worldwide experiment we have embarked on through the increase in global temperature.

Videos about how government works in the United States.

In this introductory lecture Professor Kermit Hall lays out the basics of the Supreme Court from its origin in the U.S. Constitution.

There's an angry divisive tension in the air that threatens to make modern politics impossible.

In the first presidential debate, held in Denver, Colo., and moderated by NewsHour's Jim Lehrer, Gov. Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama presented their cases primarily on domestic policy issues...

Victor Davis Hanson, Professor of Classics at California State University at Fresno, leads a discussion on the nature of war throughout civilization and how it might enlighten us about the contemporary troubles in the Middle East.