One US senator has died, another is facing criminal charges and one more is dealing with health problems. Who replaces a…
The ‘most divided’ Supreme Court ever may have been in 1941, when seven of the nine justices were New Deal supporters…
Since 2020, Alabama lawmakers have failed to draw political districts that give Black voters an equal chance of selecting…
With the US government seemingly heading toward a potentially painful federal shutdown, a scholar explains why such events…
Though it is a fact that some enslaved people learned valuable skills, it’s a myth that they had the same path of upward…
Only 50 years ago, originalism was considered a fringe movement, hardly taken seriously. Now its adherents dominate the…
The indictment of Sen. Bob Menendez is full of lurid details – hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash stuffed into clothes…
While President Joe Biden has low approval ratings, few other American presidents − with the exception of FDR and Warren…
While Americans tend not to use the word “peace,” and instead opt for terms like “safety and security,” their desires…
The Proud Boys are more of a loosely affiliated street gang than they are a unified right-wing militia, researchers say.…
In some cases, it can be difficult for academics to know which journals are not credible – but other times, people feel…
The Biden administration has not ruled out diplomatic recognition of the Taliban. Doing so risks legitimizing the group’s…
The hostage swap between the U.S. and Iran may be an important step in a new nuclear deal between the West and Iran.
No US president has set foot on sub-Saharan Africa since 2015 – and it hasn’t gone unnoticed.
A famous gesture kick-started hopes of peace in the Middle East. But today, the idea of a two-state solution seems further…
For President Zelenskyy and Ukraine’s citizens, the country’s quest for NATO and EU membership is about security –…
Trump’s lawyers, and those prosecuting him, aren’t the only ones grappling with the problem of finding unbiased jurors…
While it’s widely believed that Howard University came to be known as “The Mecca” in the 1960s, new evidence shows…
Hand-counting every ballot might sound like a great idea, but it’s both slower and less accurate than machine-counting…
In the wake of two public episodes of Mitch McConnell appearing to ‘freeze,’ a longtime Kentucky journalist explains…