Countries to watch in 2020, from Chile to Afghanistan: 5 essential reads
There's much more going on in the world than the Trump impeachment and Brexit. Here are five momentous global stories…
There's much more going on in the world than the Trump impeachment and Brexit. Here are five momentous global stories…
How did a small, rural state become so influential in the presidential nominating process? A political scientist traces…
US officials have consistently lied over decades about progress in the Afghanistan war. The lies are no surprise, writes…
More and more district attorney candidates are running on reversing the government's traditional approach to crime and…
Scholars explain important moments in the Democratic presidential debate on Dec. 19.
Many want to come to the United States, as an asylee, a migrant or a citizen. But those journeys have become more complicated.
Take a good look at those old Christmas ornaments before hanging them on the tree – you may find it's time to retire…
The only satisfactory debate arrangement everyone agreed to nearly 60 years ago largely remains in place today – the game…
Democrats blasted Senate leader Mitch McConnell for saying the GOP would run an impeachment trial as President Trump wished.…
As evangelicalism spreads across Brazil, some of Rio de Janeiro's most notorious gangs see minority religions as an…
Transgender people experience high rates of discrimination in housing and shelter services.
Even if other parts of the federal government shut down, Congress could – and would have to – keep working. A legal…
Public officials are now in the spotlight: Does the public view them as professionals, bound by duty, or as elites who invoke…
When the founders wrote the Constitution, they had to devise a punishment fitting for a civil servant's impeachment.…
Trump's recent comments echo a troubled history of the use of dogs against people of color, as well as pejorative depictions…
At historic sites across the South, you'll often find a white woman, dressed in Colonial clothes, cooking in a big house…
Dozens of Muslim-majority countries are asking the UN's International Criminal Court to investigate and prosecute a…
Despite the headlines, the biggest concerns of students on college campuses are not politics, discrimination or free expression.
Black Americans who grow up in racially segregated areas tend to have worse health, education and future economic prospects.…
Drones could help United Nations peacekeepers save civilians' lives – but there are obstacles.