A healthy democracy has free and fair elections, robust civil liberties, multiparty competition and minimal corruption.…
More than 6 million Syrians fled the country after it descended into civil war in 2011.
How do place names get made and then changed? There’s a process. But it involves people as well as bureaucracy, so it’s…
There are three pending criminal cases and four people the US will not release but also cannot put on trial.
Descendants of survivors helped researchers identify 279 deportees and tell their stories. ‘We give previously faceless…
Patients rely on abortion clinics to protect their privacy. The providers have work to do to catch up to today’s digital…
While the Court’s politics have veered right over the past decade, the justices’ prose has shifted left, becoming more…
He wants to change government and the role it plays in a big way. Congress might make that hard.
The information systems Congress uses have existed largely unchanged for decades, while the world has experienced an information…
Syria faces real challenges. A look at the research on post-Arab Spring challenges offers some answers for a region wracked…
Overseeing the FDA, NIH and several other public health and medical research divisions, the HHS secretary is a powerful…
In power since 1994, Belarus’ Alexander Lukashenko has aligned the country with Russia in an ideological battle with the…
Parolees over 50 tend to have health issues and strained family ties. They’re less likely to reoffend after prison but…
Israel has launched what it describes as an ‘extensive and significant’ operation in the West Bank camp, home to 25,000…
Historically, it has been difficult to convict people of conspiring to overthrow the government or stop its normal functioning.
The climate policy pendulum is swinging back again with Trump in office. Money, lobbying and talking about red vs. blue…
A long-running pickup game in North Carolina – made up of ‘geezers’ with various political leanings – thrives by…
Immigration scholars break down some of the immigration terms that are likely to become common during the Trump administration’s…
The Philadelphia Police Department plans to expand its use of drones, including as first responders.
While the president has a broad range of immigration and national security powers, he cannot change US law on his own.