In many Mexican cities, water is treated as a political bargaining chip – a favor that public officials can trade for…
The First Amendment protects everything from porn to hateful signs outside military funerals. That includes fundraising…
The current period of partisan division in the US isn't unique. We can learn from past President Dwight Eisenhower on…
Together, two parties with a tough stance on immigration and the EU – the Five Star Movement and the League – received…
Our current politically turbulent times in the US are difficult – but not unusual. History shows that fragility is the…
Research shows they face greater obstacles to election than their male counterparts, thus work harder and represent constituents…
The upcoming census, like many before it, will boil complex information on race, ethnicity and ancestry into just two questions.…
More than 1,000 Nebraskans were asked about laws that protect business owners who refuse to serve gays or lesbians. People…
In 2005, almost 46,000 children were adopted across borders. Ten years later, just 12,000 were. The foreign adoption system…
One of the harshest critiques of white racism appeared 50 years ago in the federal government's own Kerner Commission…
There's a new way to reveal America's political divide. One researcher finds the differences between groups that…
Decades ago, the CIA created a secret department dedicated to spreading anti-communist propaganda around the globe. A scholar…
The group, founded in 1871, didn’t try to smother virtually all gun control efforts until the mid-1970s.
Domestic violence services have rightly focused most attention on meeting survivors' needs. Increasingly, though, organizations…
Years after their trials, he got in touch with the victims he thought he had helped. They described feeling ‘dumped’…
A scholar documented the risks a migrant faced after deportation, including his becoming involved in smuggling people across…
Exactly 234,966 people have died in Mexico's 11-year drug war. Now the government wants to deploy soldiers to criminal…
The Department of Justice wants to add a citizenship question to the next census. That could mess up the Census Bureau's…
While parents are growing more concerned about their children's easy access to porn, they often don't realize just…
Thirteen Russians were charged Friday with using social media to interfere with the 2016 election. A media expert explains…