In addition to testing and special facilities for COVID-19 patients, the country's government-run tracking system allows…
Incarcerated Americans have been tasked with washing hospital laundry, manufacturing protective equipment, disinfecting…
A trove of essays long forgotten in the archives of the Hoover Institution give insight into what attracted everyday women…
Beijing is touting its role in the world and praising its autocratic governmental system and its huge countrywide surveillance…
Doctors face difficult choices about rationing medical care. A scholar who studies discrimination argues that those with…
Throughout the coronavirus crisis, President Trump has made inconsistent statements about who is responsible for key aspects…
In many states, any voter can ask for an absentee ballot and mail it in – but in others, there are stricter rules about…
Even as Americans are all told to remain at home, millions are now unemployed and must scramble to figure out how to pay…
Half of incarcerated individuals have either a chronic medical or a mental health condition. But social distancing and rigorous…
A historian of ancient Greece looks past a plague and explains how a massive government spending plan went badly awry 2,500…
In the UK, nobody collects patients' insurance information or credit card details. There's simply no charge for…
With the challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic, veterans who were already lacking adequate benefits and resources…
In the 1790s, penal reformers rebuilt America's squalid jails as airy, hygienic places meant to keep residents – and…
In his endorsement of Biden, Obama gave his consent for his former running mate to go beyond the policy platform they built.…
With officers being hit by illness, arrests have dropped during the coronavirus crisis. Meanwhile crime rates have remained…
Young voters are important to the continuity of democracy because voting at a young age leads to continued voting throughout…
The Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts has reversed its decadeslong practice of protecting voters' rights…
Since the Cold War, Americans have shifted from engaging in active self-rescue to passively waiting for help from a centralized,…
We don't know a whole lot about COVID-19, and journalists are struggling with how to convey the facts we have.
As Congress considers further financial help for victims of the coronavirus pandemic, the magnitude of the fiscal crisis…