A pilot project at a Pennsylvania prison is trying out lessons from Scandinavia that could offer some ideas for reforming…
Countries across the Americas are tweaking their census to better understand their population, allowing them to create more…
The celebration of generous portions, meat and fat as masculine and patriotic would have been alien to Washington and Jefferson,…
The U.S. Antarctic Program struggles to keep women safe – and through the continent’s history, discrimination and prejudice…
The Cold War provided the US with strategic and defensive advantages; some politicians also used it to push their view of…
Black conservative Clarence Thomas’ improbable rise as a powerful US Supreme Court justice today was unimaginable during…
A historian looks back at the success – and failure – of mass mobilization efforts by Russia and the Soviet Union.
Affirmative action, discrimination against LGBTQ people and election laws are some of the hot-button issues that the Supreme…
These crackdowns are occurring around the world in countries that are becoming less free because of what’s known as ‘democratic…
Illegal roads have brought deforestation, fire and other environmental damage to the Amazon. Indigenous territory in many…
Global estimates of modern-day slavery by the United Nations reveal improving methods for calculating the data.
While some parts of eastern Ukraine have been under partial Russian control since 2014, other sections continue to fight…
Tactical nuclear weapons were designed to be used on the battlefield rather than for strategic defense, but that doesn’t…
Mobile apps are sometimes ‘regionalized’ to better serve the needs of users, functioning differently in, for example,…
Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, women in Iran have been forced to accept second-class citizenship, as Shiite religious…
Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is ahead in the polls. But will his authoritarian rival, incumbent President…
Major Supreme Court decisions and reversals last term are leaving some people, including this scholar on constitutional…
Chinese celebrities have become increasingly politically active on social media over the years – in part to help advance…
Russian government media are frequently criticized as being blatant propaganda. How do US government media measure up?
President Biden denounces white nationalism as once-democratic countries around the world are threatened by increasing political…