How a national music initiative is bridging divides and inspiring civic renewal across America.

Once a month, on the evening of the first Wednesday, I sit on an elevated platform behind a horseshoe-shaped desk in my role as a member of my community’s historic preservation commission in Urbana, ...

"Right now, it's a record-tight margin in the House. You know, Speaker Mike Johnson was elected by two votes. Just one or two ...

On the set of YouTube’s newest game show, a fact-checker quit mid-taping. Her job was to referee the truth, and the rules ...

Millions of Americans no longer fully trust our elections, and the mid-term elections are on Tuesday, November 3rd. Can we ...

Three Wisconsin commercial driver training schools have been removed from a federal registry as the Trump administration ...

Edward Saltzberg is a contributor for The Fulcrum, a nonpartisan publication dedicated to strengthening democracy by fostering informed civic engagement and elevating diverse perspectives.

If you want to know what a politician is up to, watch his feet, not his mouth,” historian Marvin Meyers wrote in his ...

K classrooms. Roughly 2,000 two-year-olds got seats, the beginning of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s push for universal childcare.More than 5,700 applied for those first 2,000 seats, which gives some sense of ...

A shadow‑docket ruling revives SAVE, a system critics say misidentifies eligible voters as non‑citizens ...

Independent gubernatorial candidate Collin Corbett held a press conference outside WTTW Chicago studios Tuesday demanding ...