In his opening remarks at the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearings on confirming Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse, author of The Vanishing American Adult, invoked the ...

RICHMOND — Americans have been to class every day since Jan. 20: civics class. For months, various writers have moaned about adults not knowing enough about our democracy and that civics is no longer ...

A police officer walks toward the U.S. Capitol rotunda as morning light illuminates a statue of President Abraham Lincoln on May 4 in Washington, D.C. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post) Perspective by ...

As a mom of three school-age children, I believe Matthew Hennessey’s “My Daughter Is Driven to Learn Civics” (op-ed, March 11) gives us a beautiful example of civics education. His description of ...