The historic conviction of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and one other co-defendant for seditious conspiracy has implications…
Black Twitter is often the preferred forum for candid and authentic Black-centered discussions on police brutality. Without…
Alabama has paused the carrying out of death sentences after a series of cases in which the state struggled with the procedure.
In a territory landowners wanted to become a state, white immigrants were less threatening to American nativists on the…
Celebrity politicians have instant name recognition. But unless they trump competitors in fundraising, and hit other check…
At least six people have been killed in an attack at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia. It happened amid a surge of mass…
Wilma Mankiller’s groundbreaking tenure as chief of the Cherokee Nation introduced the US to the power of Indigenous women’s…
Lots has been said about the 2022 US midterm elections. But a scholar of democracy says there’s really only one conclusion…
Bias-motivated attacks became a distinct crime in the 1980s. But police investigate only a fraction of the roughly 200,000…
Migrant workers’ rights are indeed an ongoing issue in Qatar – but the country has passed reforms to improve workers’…
A leading climate scientist explains why going over 1.5 degrees Celsius puts the world in a danger zone.
Colorado is one of 19 states that have laws in place to prevent individuals believed to pose a threat from obtaining guns.…
It’s a landmark agreement, acknowledging for the first time that wealthy countries bear some responsibility to help. But…
The death of popular rapper Takeoff underscores a uniquely American problem – gun violence.
Start high, drop fast and avoid the free-riders: How to design subsidies that can boost clean energy in the US and elsewhere.
Abortion referendums in such states as California and Kentucky provide a way to protect abortion rights at the state level…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has announced she will step aside from senior leadership. It could lead to generational change…
The U.S. Senate voted to advance a bill that protect same-sex marriage by a wide margin– thanks to support from 12 Republicans.…
Polling for the 2022 midterms was more accurate than the dramatically wrong predictions of 2016 and 2020, leading one pollster…
Runoff elections in Georgia have a racist past, but the contest between Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker for US Senate…