Militarized immigration enforcement used to be confined to near the US-Mexico border, far away from most Americans’ front…
Since the republic’s beginning, it has been uncontested law that to invade someone’s home, the government needs a warrant…
A scholar of modern Iran looks at Reza Pahlavi, son of the last shah of Iran, and examines what he believes and why his…
Ambassadors play a middle role between the countries where they serve and the one they represent. Trump insists their loyalty…
Renee Good’s death was the consequence, writes a First Amendment scholar, of a kind of politics in which the state survives…
The Trump administration’s move to withdraw the US from these organizations risks undercutting lasting peace and global…
“When they make a wasteland, they call it ‘peace,‘” wrote the Roman historian Tacitus, in a turn of phrase that…
Federal agents have pepper-sprayed, tackled and detained people recording their actions. If you post your recordings of…
Although she’s the world’s reigning pop star, attitudes toward Swift are split markedly along both partisan and gender…
A 1951 defense agreement between the United States and Denmark allows the US to build military installations on Greenland…
Iranian universities have long been places of reform and political imagination – as well as targets of censorship and…
How the US treats its allies has been a crucial question for every president. What evolved over the centuries into an official…
As the 2026 midterm elections edge closer, most people know the party that controls the White House is likely to lose seats…
At its one-year mark, the Trump administration is dismantling the systems that once helped the US move toward a more open…
Can the president use the Insurrection Act and send the military into U.S. cities? A web of legal provisions try to balance…
Most of the 1 million Venezuelan immigrants in the US arrived relatively recently.
Fostering a sense of pride in local communities increases citizen participation, including, at a bare minimum, voting in…
The high court recognizes a person’s right to self-defense with firearms but has also upheld the government’s power…
President Donald Trump’s threats against independent media and free speech look a lot like the actions of autocrats elsewhere…
Railway safety has vastly improved for motor vehicles, but reducing the risk of collisions with pedestrians is much trickier.