Since 2008, Randi Weingarten has served as president of the American Federation of Teachers, the powerful teachers union that has massive influence over Democratic Party policy and (supposedly) ...

American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten claimed during a Wednesday event in New York that diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies were all that stood in the way of fascism.

The chairman of the Democratic National Committee on Thursday rejected any accusations that the party has an issue with recruiting young men. DNC Chairman Ken Martin, speaking at a press conference, ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (L) and Democratic National Committee chairman Ken Martin (R). (Jintak Han/The Washington Post; Rod Lamkey/AP) How hard should people in politics work? Sanae ...

In her quest to become the nation's final leader of the Department of Education, Linda McMahon has taken major steps to accomplish President Donald Trump's goal of shuttering the agency. Since her ...

Narrated by frequent Burns collaborator Peter Coyote, “The American Revolution” starts well before that fateful July day in 1776 when the Second Continental Congress formally adopted the Declaration ...

The move, unusual for a year without a midterm or presidential election, is the latest sign of financial distress for the Democratic Party. By Shane Goldmacher and Reid J. Epstein The Democratic ...

American history has never sounded so cool — or so A-list. Everyone's favorite documentary filmmaker Ken Burns returns to PBS Nov. 16 with "The American Revolution." It's a six-part, 12-hour treatise ...

Testing the human animal’s tolerance for plaintive fiddles, wheezy bagpipes, Peter Coyote and the whispery recitations of diary entries, “The American Revolution” is the most Ken Burns-y of Ken Burns ...

Days after Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic mayoral primary in a major upset, Democrats nationally and in New York are still deciding whether to give him their full support. “We have moved from the ...

In many ways, Ken Burns is the Van Halen of historical documentary directors. Before you jump, hear me out. Watching the acclaimed filmmaker’s upcoming The American Revolution with some apprehension, ...