The Attica uprising marked a milestone in the prisoners’ rights movement. Many of the grievances aired in 1971 are still…
While the food insecurity rate held steady in 2020, the racial hunger gap increased.
Like many social movements before it that began at the grassroots, Black Lives Matter is becoming a more conventional organization…
The caretaker leader for Afghanistan represents a compromise candidate for Taliban factions, but his reactionary past has…
Interviews with former torturers in Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq reveal what it takes to be a torturer – which could…
The Affordable Care Act has allowed many preventive health services, including cancer screenings and vaccines, to be free…
In the wake of 9/11, some called for rounding up whole groups of people viewed as potential threats to the nation. But Transportation…
A second plot was planned on 9/11, but there were too few terrorists to carry it off. Twenty years later, al-Qaida and its…
A top White House aide to President George W. Bush recounts what 9/11 was like for White House staffers.
Rachel Hadas says that despite the cascade of scary news, humans will adapt, as they always have – and provides evidence…
Are comparisons to war a good way to make a point in debates about education? A scholar of communication says it depends…
Some people seeking to influence public opinion about abortion rights claim the science is clear. It’s not, and that means…
Politicians of all stripes, computer professionals and even big-tech executives are calling on government to hit the brakes…
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to seek commitments from his US counterpart, pledging support in his…
Fighting against federal authority is a political tradition in the South – and resisting federal guidance to wear masks…
Following the completion of the US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, Neta Crawford, the co-director of the Costs of War…
‘Informal evictions’ in which landlords harass or pressure tenants out of their homes continued during the the pandemic…
Afghanistan has vast mineral resources that have long attracted interest from outside countries, but a lack of infrastructure…
When people fled the new United States in the 18th century, they were taken in by the British Empire but became disillusioned…
Some states have a legal framework allowing “mature minors” to make their own health care decisions – but they apply…