polity

We’re approaching the limit of the burden we’ve already agreed as a polity to bear and the means we’ve agreed on to spread the load between current workers and retirees.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

They were anti-citizens, existing outside of the polity.

From Salon ● May 14, 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

Five times or more bigger than any other Mississippian polity, Cahokia’s population of at least fifteen thousand made it comparable in size to London, but on a landmass without Paris, Cordoba, or Rome.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

“By the time the Scramble for Africa was over,” Martin Meredith tells us, the vagaries of geopolitical geometry had amalgamated “some 10,000 African polities . . . into forty European colonies and protectorates.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 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

European microorganisms were slow to penetrate the Yucatan Peninsula, where most of the Maya polities were too small to readily play off against each other.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann