In closely contested House and Senate races, even a small shift in union votes could influence the outcome.
On Election Day, you go to vote – and you’re told you’re not registered or you’re not eligible to vote. A civil…
Research shows that humans are susceptible to simple stories and biased toward arguments that fit their current perspectives.…
Viewing trust as behaviors, not feelings, can help explain why some heed Aaron Rodgers’ advice over Dr. Fauci’s –…
Indictments of a longtime extremism researcher and her former organization raise a crucial question for researchers in the…
A geographer explains the politics and procedures behind renaming American places.
A team of historians, archaeologists and forensic anthropologists is trying to identify 15 German soldiers who were unceremoniously…
Rural places have long built and expanded prisons to tap federal funds during hard times.
In correspondence with their constituents, Democrats are talking about corruption six times as much as they did in 2022.
Navy readiness is a finite reserve that has been overstretched by a US military appetite for interventions in the past 50…
As economic and demographic growth increasingly coexists with poverty and homelessness, resident-led alternatives to housing…
Will an Aug. 24, 2026, Supreme Court decision lead to chaos in the midterm elections? An election law scholar dissects the…
New data from a global rights-tracking project shows the country had large declines in 2025 on 8 of the 9 civil and political…
Ideas from QAnon’s conspiracy theory have appeared on government social media sites during Trump’s second term and continue…
Evidence suggests that people who receive syringes from a needle exchange are less likely to dispose of them improperly.
Uncle Sam may receive charitable gifts, but that doesn’t give presidents free rein on how to spend those funds.
Though Graham’s appointment may seem unusual, political inheritance has never been fully absent from American democracy.
Campaigning anywhere for any office at any level of government is personally burdensome.
Extremist groups have pointed to the federal indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center as proof that their worldview…
A housing simulator predicts that rezoning for ‘missing middle’ housing could increase Denver’s housing supply by…