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Emmanuel Macron may have won the presidential election, but his agenda could fail if his party doesn't get a majority…
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The Supreme Court may soon hear a case on data-driven criminal sentencing. Research suggests that algorithms are not as…
The University of Michigan's Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Heather Ann Thompson explains why Americans must demand…
For more than seven decades, US presidents have encouraged peace in Europe. Trump seems eager to toss that legacy aside.…
Research on how black people try to avoid racism in their daily lives shows that following white, mainstream standards can…
Cyntoia Brown was just 16 years old when she shot and killed a man in 2004. Under Tennessee law, she won't be eligible…
American presidents have spent a great deal of time proclaiming US leadership of the global system. The decision to withdraw…
Who are those people out there marching on Washington, DC? Researchers at the University of Maryland did a survey to find…
For-profit corporations are deeply embedded in US national security infrastructure – and they're not going anywhere.
Teach for America was created to bring more resources to disadvantaged communities. New research shows that the participants…
At society's margins, people without access to the mainstream job economy are able to carve out lives rich in other…
Research reveals few differences between the parenting of gay men and their straight peers. But it looks like gay fathers…
Jeff Sessions wants prosecutors to 'charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense.' That's a…
The United States is seeing an uptick in far-right extremist violence. It's time to pay more attention to this scourge…