For much of the country’s history, the Republican Party was the party of Lincoln and racial equality, and the Democratic…
Plenty of groups are offering religious exemptions to COVID-19 vaccine mandates, but their legal basis isn’t as rock-solid…
The dangerous situation faced by Afghans who want to flee, but can’t, shows how unwilling or unprepared the US and other…
With the Taliban again in power in Afghanistan, minorities like the Hazara may have the most to lose.
Texas lawmakers resurrected a Jim Crow-era legal maneuver, used to deny Black people the right to vote, in their new law…
You have evolved to tap into the wisdom of the crowds. But on social media your cognitive biases can lead you astray.
It’s easy to make fun of California politics. But a longtime scholar of those politics says the attempt to recall Gov.…
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…