Voting by mail is rarely subject to fraud, does not give an advantage to one political party over another and can in fact…
The Supreme Court's July 9 ruling that half of Oklahoma belongs to the Muscogee Nation confirms what Indigenous people…
Mathematically speaking, the Electoral College is built to virtually ensure narrow victories, making it very susceptible…
The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina has a long history of struggle, protest and resistance to white supremacy and its social…
When African Americans press 'record' to film police brutality, they are challenging a nation not to look away.
A political scientist says the protests against police violence that have swept the US signal welcome social change -- and…
Land in what is now eastern Oklahoma, which was granted to the Creek Nation by Congress in 1833, is still under tribal sovereignty,…
State and local government jobs are being axed, public schools won't get money the state planned to send them, and fire…
In cases testing the limits of presidential power, the Supreme Court ruled the president has no special protections that…
The promised benefits of lethal injection – a quick, painless death – have never come true. There's not even agreement…
The Bolsonaro government cannot simply allow Brazil's out-of-control coronavirus pandemic to decimate its Indigenous…
Americans with lower incomes today are less happy than they were 40 years ago. Could the growing class divide be to blame?
The recent vote in Russia supporting Vladimir Putin's constitutional reforms was pure theater and obscures growing friction…
For many Americans, law and order has long been as much a private matter as something for the government to handle.
The absence of trust in a nation's leader and government jeopardizes an effective response to a health crisis. It also…
Indigenous communities were already suffering badly under Bolsonaro. Now, COVID-19 threatens their very survival.
The federal government's fight against cocaine distribution wrongly assumes that it's all destined for the US.
Overall, waiting times may be improving – but long waits are still common in Black communities.
Some lament that today's anti-racism movement has no charismatic leaders like the civil rights era did. Such comparisons…
Electors may not vote their consciences, which means the Electoral College will continue to operate how most Americans think…