With a Supreme Court ruling rejecting one of the founders' two reasons for creating the Electoral College, only one…
As state and local governments lure businesses to their shores with financial incentives, a recent study finds that two…
COVID-19 has accelerated the decline in local and national journalism. Is it time to find a new funding model, or for the…
Hackers demonstrated they can take over Twitter's technology infrastructure, a brazen move that hints at how such an…
A former lawyer for the US House of Representatives explains the constitutional and historical limits barring Congress from…
Symbols of the Confederacy can be seen in Brazil, Ireland, Germany and beyond. While some people may not grasp their racist…
People who object to the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion have fought it for years. A recent Supreme…
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…