Allen Abel

Allen Abel finds a place where America’s toxic politics have torn apart towns, friends and families. Is there any going back?

In the hometown of U.S. vice-president Mike Pence, politics is becoming a family business—and that could have huge consequences

Trump claimed that ’humanity is better’ thanks to him. In a body that sustains itself on problems it never solves, that’s cause for nervous laughter

The 17th U.S. president was a cracker-barrel orator who defied the partisan labels of his time—and stepped right into a trap set by his congressional foes

America has dissolved into partisanship and Trumpism. But in Knox County, Kentucky, they still have Bill Oxendine

If politics is theatre, then no candidate is more authentic than the new mayor of Knoxville, Tenn.

With the midterm elections looming, Allen Abel visits a tiny town in Kentucky where only one name stirs interest—for better or worse

Allen Abel: Donald Trump’s Washington woke up to fear, loathing and name-calling—and that was the good part of the day

Protestors wailed, senators cried foul, security hauled spectators from the chamber. An that was before the nominee opened his mouth

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has put a brash, fresh face on unapologetic socialism in the United States. Can Americans—or even Democrats—get behind her?