President Donald Trump feels kinship with former President Andrew Jackson. But a presidential historian says that Jackson…
Presidents often come into office with a blueprint to transform government. Project 2025 – assembled by Trump allies –…
Trump isn’t alone in using tariffs, travel bans and sanctions to make countries play ball on deportations. But the other…
New restrictions on how children and teens can spend time online remain concentrated at the state level.
While it doesn’t constitute a national ban on gender-affirming care for minors, the executive order contains provisions…
Neither Trump nor Biden has marshaled the full force of the nation’s anti-terrorism efforts against right-wing extremist…
Recent generations may have taken safety for granted, but today’s youth are growing up in an era of compounded crises…
Using tea bags, mop strands and other camp detritus, detainees used art as a way of escape at the detention center.
Attacks on scientific expertise have been increasing, especially in politics. Health and Human Services nominee Robert F.…
Hateful language used to demonize particular groups of people had been used long before the era of Donald Trump, including…
A first-of-its-kind study documents the scope and impact of evictions on Black women and families in metro Detroit.
What’s happening now in Washington, DC, is different from most presidential transitions − in volume, pace, content and…
A member of a grant review panel explains the ins and outs of applying for research funding – and the consequences of…
The US Postal Service processes millions of passports, employs thousands of people and ensures the health of all Americans…
A ‘new’ country wouldn’t have many more people or a much higher standard of living – but it would have a lot more…
If a federal prosecutor were to put a city’s mayor or a state’s governor in jail, what may be the greatest source of…
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.