The UK leader’s visit to the US comes amid trouble at home, with low ratings for his Conservative Party. But don’t expect…
What was behind the latest encounter between US and Chinese military vessels in contested waters?
Compromises, no matter how horrible, have long been used to solve seemingly intractable political problems – but at a…
President Lyndon Johnson’s commencement address at Howard University in 1965 offered a compelling argument on the need…
Public data about individual donors’ political contributions supports the perception that American academia leans left.
The quality of public debate over free speech in higher education matters. And the debate right now gets the facts all wrong.
Andrew Brimmer, the first African American on the Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve, helped develop the blueprint…
Transgender people are more than four times as likely to be the victim of a crime as cisgender people.
Artificial intelligence looks like a political campaign manager’s dream because it could tune its persuasion efforts to…
Courts have no army or police force to enforce their decisions. Their power rests on their legitimacy in the public eye.…
Lack of control over its borders and corruption are two of the issues that could complicate Moldova’s bid to join the…
Trends show credit scores are rising, with nearly half of all US consumers boasting ‘very good’ or ‘excellent’ numbers.
People who have experienced domestic violence can have trouble finding and keeping jobs because of physical injuries and…
A fire killed 38 migrants in a Mexico detention facility in March 2023. A sociologist’s conversations with migrants show…
Former enslaved persons have never received a dime for their labor. Nor have their descendants received reparations for…
The news media spent a lot of time reporting on how much progressive Democrats and conservative Republicans didn’t like…
As drone strikes become a more routine part of warfare, a set of rules or standards that can help determine how they are…
A Southerner, Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas was a racist enslaver before the Civil War. But he fought for the Union because…
The White House and House Republicans agreed to a deal just days before the US is expected to default.
Figuring out how to regulate AI is a difficult challenge, and that’s even before tackling the problem of the small number…