The French-designed, American-manufactured NextGen arrives years late and in a moment when federally sponsored trains are…
The 2009 finding that greenhouse gases endanger public health underpins many U.S. climate policies. A new report meant to…
More than one year after the Supreme Court’s Grants Pass v. Johnson ruling, a geographer who researches homelessness finds…
A former US ambassador and career diplomat says that history indicates that the possibilities for a lasting peace coming…
The elimination of offices within Homeland Security and the State Department may force US counterterrorism efforts to rely…
The attempt by Texas Republicans to gerrymander more GOP legislative districts could backfire and deliver the party dummymandered…
The Republican and Democratic parties are united in protecting their chokehold on American politics, despite the view by…
US officials have used a number of rhetorical strategies – ways of talking about something – to distance the country…
The language around immigration in the US is almost as complicated as the system itself.
States used to be on their own when a disaster hit. Then the Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927 and the Dust Bowl showed…
A landmark 1964 Supreme Court ruling protects the press in lawsuits by public officials angry about how they’ve been covered.…
Researchers have discovered a second mass grave of Irish immigrant railroaders in Chester County, Pa.
The ruling stems from the harm island nations are suffering as sea level rises, and it opens a door for future claims for…
Nero, Rome’s emperor from 54 to 68 C.E., rose to power at a young age and remained focused on himself, letting the needs…
Detroit has one of the highest chronic absenteeism rates in the nation, which can have devastating effects on student success.
Florida has the third-largest population of immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally, but that population has been steadily…
After Sinclair won the California Democratic primary in 1934, business and media elites helped derail his bid for the governorship.
The meaning and application of due process has become a crucial issue in the US, most often with respect to the Trump administration’s…
After his predecessors failed to diminish the US population of undocumented immigrants, President Trump is attempting to…
Trump voters still reliably back the president, believing that most of the criticism of him is fake news.