Some calls to resolve racial inequities in the US have raised an idea with roots more than a century old: community land…
The advocates of friendship as a way to solve America's partisan divide are wrong. There are more effective ways to…
Some 10,000 people are likely to give up their US passport this year, way above average. Are they fleeing COVID-19? Nasty…
A political science scholar explains how political beliefs inform the way we process scientific information.
The technical qualifications for presidential candidates are the same, but how people seek the nation's highest office…
The increasing visibility of a wide range of militia and vigilante groups has repeatedly caught local communities and national…
President Trump's law-and-order campaign rhetoric has been compared to Richard Nixon's and George Wallace's…
Black and Asian American communities have been portrayed as in opposition to each other. Multiracial Kamala Harris, both…
Once stripped of their symbolic power, problem monuments offer what educators call 'teachable moments,' helping…
Hundreds of thousands of people are waiting for their naturalization applications to be processed by US Citizenship and…
Oregon's experience shows that mail-in voting can be safe and secure, providing accurate and reliable results the public…
In the 1820s, an anti-Masonic conspiracy theory dominated politics in the Northeast and even birthed its own political party.
Journalists use real people's stories to 'humanize' the news. But these tales – whether harrowing or heartwarming…
While the debates about Kamala Harris’ multiraciality may seem new, they are similar to the commentary other high-profile…
Five of the six contested presidential elections in U.S. history were resolved and the country moved on -- one ended in…
The census will likely count fewer Black Americans, Indigenous peoples, Asian Americans and Americans of Hispanic or Latino…
The harvesters of the historic wild salmon run out of Bristol Bay, Alaska, were already facing tough competition from relatively…
Kenosha is the latest US city to see federal agents patrolling its protests. History suggests that supplanting the local…
As the country reels from a series of killings of Black men by the police, two scholars report that their research shows…
There aren't any clear ideological differences between the two, and Senate incumbents who aren't embroiled in scandal…