What will it take to change a brutal and militaristic style of policing in America? Political will.
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Giving police military gear doesn't reduce crime or keep officers safer – but it does hurt citizens' trust of…
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If teenagers organizing on social media can hamper a presidential campaign rally, how challenging is it to manipulate elections?
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President Trump is scheduled to appear at an Independence Day celebration at Mount Rushmore on July 3. For some, this event…
Millions of dollars are spent every election by corporations that want to influence state regulations and policies, and…
Legally designating domestic extremist groups as terrorist organizations – as some in the US advocate now – will have…
A decadeslong process of recruiting a more diverse police force has led to more peaceful communities and widespread, bipartisan…
Similarities between the 1930s and today are hard to ignore, but Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal teaches us that several…
Do US attorneys general act in the public's interest, or the interest of the president who appointed them?
In a recent survey, more than three-quarters of white parents of 6- to 11-year-olds said they didn't talk to their kids…
Scholars who study policing explain what they have found that could help reduce police prejudice and violence.
As the US faces historic challenges to its democracy, Trump is mirroring tactics used by the former FBI director to smear…
Research into how war-torn and fractured nations find justice and societal reconciliation finds ways to establish sustainable…
Justice Neil Gorsuch joined the Supreme Court as a conservative. But his ruling in a major civil rights case is part of…
Four decades after Ellen Craig-Jones of Urbancrest, Ohio, became the US's first Black woman mayor, seven of the nation's…
Islamic State fighters are celebrating the toll disease and racism are taking on US society.