As the war in Iran extends into its seventh week and a truce feels increasingly shaky, many Americans expressed bewilderment ...

Nearly 170 years ago, President Abraham Lincoln warned that a house divided against itself cannot stand. History has echoed that truth many times, most famously in the slow unraveling of the Roman ...

There couldn’t be a timelier book than Beth Macy’s searching and deeply reported “Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America.” In it, the best-selling author of “Dopesick” returns ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Can today's divided America learn something from the divisions of the past? zimmytws, iStock/Getty Images Plus People trying to ...

President Donald Trump, somewhere between his seizure of the Kennedy Center and his assault on the Fed, recently considered adding another independent government body to his collection: the United ...

In America's politically divided climate, harsh language can turn to violence USA TODAY's Bart Jansen explains how politicians using harsh language can lead to violence in America's divided climate.

Division may feel permanent, but like puzzle pieces, America can fit back together when we choose co-ownership over control. America is tired. We build, we tear down, we reset. Every few years, ...