Americans agree that democracy requires freedom of speech. But a large minority also thinks it’s acceptable to bar certain…
A newly released app allows users to search for discriminatory roadway names, helping communities grasp the ubiquity of…
Will there be Minnesota hot dish hats worn at the upcoming Democratic National Convention? Curators from the Smithsonian…
Over the past half-century, American media has usually proclaimed that Black men and white women can be great presidents.…
A landmark study of police-LGBTQ relations finds that 21% of respondents have been stopped by police in the past year, and…
Dozens of Russian fighters were killed in confrontation with rebel groups in Mali amid speculation that Ukrainian intelligence…
Kamala Harris is the heir to a political lineage that dates back to a chain-smoking, hard-drinking and profane political…
While the First Amendment protects a wide range of different kinds of speech, there is no fundamental right to cause harm.
Many countries are enacting measures to counter population decline, but manipulating fertility is an inefficient means of…
The human tendency to form group affiliations and vilify outsiders can help ramp up your anxiety during a contentious election…
France’s distinctive anti-corruption legal framework made possible an Olympics free from major corruption scandals.
With every new incident of racial violence, Black people tend to undergo a collective sense of racial grief.
A white Philadelphia police officer was killed during a 1978 confrontation with the radical group MOVE. Often overlooked…
2 scholars analyzed more than 1 million official Tweets from members of Congress − and found a lot of antidemocratic language…
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz will officially accept their nominations at the Democratic National Convention. A scholar of…
Successor to slain Palestinian negotiator is a hardliner who resides in Gaza’s tunnels and has no realistic chance of…
A new study finds that higher salaries in cities with unions leads to an uptick in the death rate for Black people from…
Increased mistrust of the US medical profession and higher mortality rates are consequences of the low numbers of Black…
Military leaders have formed an interim government and promised a transition to civilian rule. Protesters who brought down…
With a few notable exceptions, historians have found little evidence that vice-presidential picks actually help their presidential…