How small towns are responding to the global pandemic
Local leaders and business owners have had to get creative to help their residents stay healthy and keep community economies…
Local leaders and business owners have had to get creative to help their residents stay healthy and keep community economies…
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.
Does taking government money mean journalists owe the government something? A media ethics scholar examines the ethical…
Unrest in the US looks familiar to Latin Americans, who are accustomed to resisting undemocratic governments – and to…
It is a tenet of American journalism that reporters working for the news sections of newspapers remain entirely independent…
Donald Trump uses language like a dangerous demagogue. The author of a book on Trump's rhetorical skill gives a guide…
In a 5-to-4 decision, SCOTUS delivered a major blow to Trump and opened the doors to the court being an arbiter of public…
Black farmers own far less land than they did in 1910 and the racial gap in homeownership is at the highest level for 50…