With its attempt to purge the country's courts of 40 percent of its judges, Poland's right-wing ruling party passed…
The percentage of trans adults has doubled in the last 10 years. Looking to human anatomy and physiology alone doesn't…
Scholars who study trust and cooperation designed a game to find out what it would take to get citizens to support refugees…
Are most homeless mentally ill? Is it inevitable that a society will have homeless people? A researcher digs into the real…
Studies show that people's environments influence their mood. The same is true of homeless shelters, which can either…
Two men were convicted in 1859 of violating the Fugitive Slave Act. They had rescued a runaway slave from slave hunters…
How city and state governments identify and keep records of suspected gang members can be problematic. Good data are essential…
A legal scholar explains why Kennedy's opinions on same-sex relationship rest on fragile constitutional grounds.
With Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement, President Trump will appoint a second justice to the Supreme Court. Will…
Public opinion data on immigration show support across parties and ideologies on a key immigration issue over time.
Leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a former Mexico City mayor and career outsider, won Mexico's July 1 presidential…
Scholarship in organizational psychology has shown that when employee morale is low, it can result in poorer performance.…
Mexico elects a new president on July 1. Frontrunner Andrés Manuel López Obrador says Trump's immigration policy is…
Compromise is necessary for government to function. But citizens see compromise differently. Democrats like it more than…
Appointing judges to lifetime terms can be among a president’s longest lasting legacies. The overwhelming majority of…
When thousands fled violence in Haiti, the US military set up a refugee camp at Guantanamo. Most were sent back to Haiti,…
The Supreme Court's Janus ruling extends strong protection to the First Amendment 'right of silence' and continues…
The Supreme Court struck down a California law requiring faith-based crisis pregnancy centers to post signs with information…
Trump’s executive order to end family separations at the border is too little too late, a human rights expert writes.…
Trump administration officials falsely claim the law required them to separate immigrant families. The same excuse was used…