The original artwork for this magazine piece was created by Amen Gashaw for the exclusive use of the HPR. From “Yankee Doodle” to Kendrick Lamar’s “To Pimp a Butterfly,” music has always acted as a ...

As 2020 continues, it has become increasingly easy to believe that the institutions of American democracy are breaking down. The president of the United States, despite having lost the presidential ...

Imagine sitting in an audience in a theatre, waiting for a musical to start. The lights go up and a cheerful song starts playing. Actors cluster onto the stage, and you notice something rather unusual ...

As the Puerto Rican economic recession approached its 10-year mark, the island’s government was preparing to unveil a new budget plan for the 2016 fiscal year. Recognizing the failure of spending cuts ...

Dawn Neely-Randall has seen many things in her 24 years teaching in Ohio schools, but 2014 was different. With the advent of the Common Core State Standards in Ohio, students had to take a pilot ...

The Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or ...

Charles W. Mills is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Born in the U.K. and raised in Jamaica, he is a leading thinker in social and political ...

In Federalist No. 63, James Madison wrote that the defining principle of American democracy, as compared to Athenian democracy, “lies in the total exclusion of the people in their collective capacity.

On the campaign trail for the 2016 Presidential Election, then-candidate Donald J. Trump spared no words in expressing his opinion on Islam. In an effort to rationalize his promise to block the entry ...

On the eve of National Day 2018, His Majesty Philippe, King of the Belgians, recorded a short speech to the Belgian public. In all three of the nation’s official languages — Dutch, French, and German ...

Over the past three years, issues over the cost of living and inflation have dominated political debates. A consistent contributor to stubbornly high inflation has been the high cost of housing. Due ...

As the world leader in incarceration, the U.S. locks up more people per capita than any other nation. By the end of 2020, there were more than 1.8 million incarcerated Americans. Recidivism clogs the ...