Shifting counts have a boring cause: who votes by mail, and when those votes get counted. That doesn’t mean all fraud…
More Americans now hold absolutist positions, supporting legal access to abortion in all or most cases and opposing government…
Antifa is a scattered movement of local collectives that opposes fascism. It has no leader, command hierarchy, funding structure…
New research maps where legal financial obligations are concentrated – and finds they overlap with poverty, violence and…
Why would a young Republican back solar but reject a carbon tax? Twenty years of survey data shows climate opinion is more…
An international affairs professor with nearly 30 years of experience in the US intelligence community – including at…
Allegheny County can now order treatment for people with serious mental illness. But what’s driving results – the order…
An analysis of one major effort shows how to get Democrats and Republicans to agree to spend billions of dollars on a decades-long…
A professor of international relations counted the sitting leaders on over 1,000 of the world’s banknotes and coins; almost…
Despite the steady decline in daily newspaper editorials, a longtime editor suggests ways for news organizations to restore…
Republicans hold both chambers and publicly back the president’s signature bill that would curtail mail-in voting and…
Almost a year after President Trump authorized preemptive law enforcement measures based on political or ideological beliefs,…
If Congress didn’t believe habitat destruction and degradation constitute ‘harm’ under the statute, why would it require…
After the colonists declared their independence, designing a government was next. Three of the founding generation said…
Courts have long let utilities seize private property to build transmission lines. Does that hold if the power flows to…
Sen. Graham repeatedly moved in the direction South Carolina and Republican politics were headed rather than where they…
While discord exists over the meaning of the 250th anniversary, Americans strongly believe there is more that unites the…
Cubans are living in a state of limbo, and it’s not clear that US military intervention would revitalize the Cuban economy.
Now as then, the US supported forces that wanted to change the political situation in Venezuela.
The beating of Sen. Charles Sumner in 1856 by Rep. Preston Brooks over a speech against slavery sparked a nationwide debate…