polity

A genuinely contented polity would be indifferent to such criticism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

Sports, at its finest, can act as a cultural common denominator for our ever-fractious and divided polity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026

"I think taking into account the circumstances and the compulsions of a coalition polity, I have done as best as I could do under the circumstances."

From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2024

The essay’s endurance is born out of the way Washington transformed his farewell into a reminder of civility, dignity, humility, and polity.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2024

The Moche polity broke up around 800 a.d., taking with it our chance to understand.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

This particular form of instability—in which electoral outcomes haven’t caught up with voters’ frustrations—has long plagued polities on the Continent, where proportional voting systems accelerate the fracturing of authority in parliaments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

Washington, having spurned a crown himself, recognized the siren song that could bewitch even ostensibly democratic leaders, particularly in polities where checks on power are easily subverted.

From Slate ● Feb. 17, 2025

From the nature of our highly diverse pre-contact society of small, autonomous polities to the destructive forces of successive colonial regimes, California Indians’ distinct history is often incompatible with federal acknowledgment criteria.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2024

In these half-historical soap operas, the heroes are decisive, brave, glorious, but the polities they lead are fragile, teetering, menaced by outsiders.

From New York Times ● May 25, 2023

The French and the American revolutions both saw more or less tyrannical polities overtaken—at least on paper—by forms of representative democracy.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith