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Police body cameras have the potential to make private details about people's lives, including some of the most stressful…
Evidence shows that many Black Americans experience police killings of unarmed Black people – even those they do not…
A federal eviction ban had much less effect than state-specific restrictions, an analysis of eviction data finds.
The Senate has a lot of rules, and its parliamentarian interprets what those rules allow – and what they don't. That…
Transit agencies could use the money to buy new subway cars, buses and maintain rails. The funding is designed to build…
Rep. Liz Cheney may have been exiled from her party's leadership, but she's after a bigger thing: the restoration…
Sheriffs in less populated counties got bigger boosts from military surplus than sheriffs in more populated counties.
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Both sides in the Israel-Hamas conflict may be violating the international laws that govern armed conflict. A legal scholar…
Stung by their failure to accurately predict the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, pollsters collectively went…
There are two splits in public opinion about the current Israel-Palestine violence, though everyone has the same set of…
Over the past 48 years, women in the US have married later, attained higher education and joined the workforce in record…
In most wars, each side's aggression is meant to get the other side to back down. But that's not the case with how…
The pandemic's not over yet, but these world leaders have already cemented their place in history for failing to effectively…
New research confirms that unfair police treatment is psychologically damaging and that the consequences are decidedly worse…
More people are getting involved in sex work, especially online – and it can be a lifeline for marginalized people.
The fighting between Israelis and Palestinians grew quickly and ferociously after being ignited by a conflict in an Arab…
School teaches us to read a text carefully in order to understand it. But on the web, ignoring information is a survival…
Free speech is a long American tradition -- but so are attempts to restrict free speech. A First Amendment scholar writes…