American cities are getting more diverse, but neighbors of different races don't necessarily socialize with each other.…
Women of color in public office often face great scrutiny and hostility. New research shows how France's first black…
By chance, a sociologist started an experiment the day sexual harassment allegations against Harvey Weinstein became public.…
Long before Chasten Buttigieg became a 'not-so-secret weapon' in his husband Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign,…
By appealing to the hearts and minds of their white neighbors, Native Americans are carving out common ground. Together,…
The number of candidates in presidential primaries has skyrocketed since the 2016 election. Divisions inside political parties…
Government produces millions of pages of records every day: studies, reports, memos, emails, budgets and more. These reports…
No matter how well-intentioned, volunteers who may be inexperienced can't solve the entrenched and complex social problems…
Americans' votes in 2020 will likely be a statement on what they think of Trump – rather than a measured choice between…
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe needs the US to confront North Korea, revitalize Japan's economy and boost his standing…
Since #MeToo, the number of women and men who say that they've been sexually assaulted or harassed in recent months…
Only two countries charge people who seek asylum fees. The rationale for not doing that is clear.
Traveling death squads. Sadistic torture techniques. Stolen babies. The US helped it all happen by aiding Argentina's…
A terrorism expert marks up the Foreign Terrorist Organizations list, exposing the quirks, inconsistencies and foreign policy…
President Trump has invoked executive privilege to stymie congressional investigators. Another president, Richard Nixon,…
How can a community decide the direction it should go, if its members cannot even agree on where they are? Two political…
North Korea is a major military threat to the US and its Asian allies, but exactly how powerful are its nuclear weapons?…
Since the Great Recession, most of the nation's rural counties have struggled to recover lost jobs and retain their…
The Confederate flag debate has arrived to Brazil, pitting black activists against the Brazilian descendants of soldiers…
About the only thing the Trump administration’s peace plan has going for it is the fact that no one expects it to work.…