Migration roils US elections. Mexico sees mass migration too, but its politicians rarely mention it
The coincidence of presidential elections in the U.S. and Mexico every 12 years provides a valuable way to compare the two countries
April 27, 2024The coincidence of presidential elections in the U.S. and Mexico every 12 years provides a valuable way to compare the two countries
April 27, 2024For many in the graduating class of 2024, the unrest at campuses across the country over the Israel-Hamas war has marked an emotional end to their college experiences that started amid a pandemic
April 27, 2024Alex Padilla is taking practically every opportunity to put his stamp on the Democratic Party’s approach to immigration
April 27, 2024A proposed ban in Kansas on gender-affirming care for minors also would bar state employees from promoting it or even children’s social transitioning
April 26, 2024President Joe Biden says he is willing to debate Donald Trump later this fall
April 26, 2024Journalists see themselves as truth-tellers, and sometimes as contrarians
April 26, 2024Students protesting the Israel-Hamas war are digging in at Columbia University for a 10th day, part of a number of demonstrations roiling campuses from California to Connecticut
April 26, 2024Both scholars stressed they are working very hard to be ‘vigorously neutral’ about Trump himself, while noting that the trial is drawing attention to a broader subject: his approach to the media.
April 26, 2024An editorial in a Chinese state-controlled newspaper on Thursday admonished "two-faced" Japan for inaccurately portraying it as a regional security threat while chasing more stable
April 26, 2024The University of Southern California canceled a graduation speech by its valedictorian, a Muslim student, saying it could spark violence or disruption due to the "intensity of feelings"
April 26, 2024The Arizona Supreme Court's decision reviving a near-total abortion ban dating back to the 19th century is at odds with a pledge from the state's Democratic governor and
April 26, 2024Venezuela presidential hopeful Manuel Rosales said on Wednesday he is willing to hand over his place on the ballot to a unity candidate, amid uncertainty over who
April 26, 2024Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he was leaning toward a 15-week national ban on abortion but supports exceptions for rape, incest and saving
April 26, 2024Donald Trump said on Saturday if he does not win November's presidential election it will mean the likely end of American democracy.
April 26, 2024Florida and LGBTQ advocates on Monday settled a lawsuit over a state law on classroom instruction that grants teachers freedom to discuss sexual orientation and gender
April 26, 2024President Joe Biden on Thursday attacked former President Donald Trump's vision for America in his last State of the Union address before the two men face off in the
April 26, 2024The U.N. human rights chief on Monday called on the United States to protect the right to vote and ensure that this year's presidential election is "non-discriminatory". The U.N.
April 26, 2024Senior leaders at multiple global media outlets signed a letter urging Israeli authorities to protect journalists in Gaza, saying reporters have been working
April 26, 2024Former U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he supports the availability of in vitro fertilization treatment following an Alabama Supreme Court decision regarding IVF.
April 26, 2024Congress needs to restore reproductive healthcare protections following the Alabama Supreme Court decision regarding in vitro fertilization, White House spokesperson Karine Jean
April 26, 2024U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday said a controversial Alabama court ruling over frozen embryos created through in-vitro fertilization was "outrageous and unacceptable."
April 26, 2024Donald Trump's stark comments on NATO show that Europeans should take more responsibility for their security, but they will still need the transatlantic military
April 26, 2024Republican presidential contender Nikki Haley slammed Donald Trump on Friday for maintaining an amiable relationship with Vladimir Putin, after the Russian
April 26, 2024President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that the bipartisan immigration bill is falling apart under political pressure from Republican rival Donald Trump and urged
April 26, 2024John Bolton excoriated former President Donald Trump as an utterly self-interested man who would punish personal enemies and appease
April 26, 2024About two-thirds of Canadians surveyed this month said American democracy cannot survive another four years of Donald Trump in the White House, and about half said
April 26, 2024Harvard University's president was planning to submit three corrections to her 1997 dissertation after a committee investigating plagiarism allegations against her
April 26, 2024Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday urged the U.S.
April 26, 2024Donald Trump said on Tuesday he has never read Adolf Hitler's manifesto 'Mein Kampf' and is not quoting the German dictator when he says illegal immigrants inside the U.S. are
April 26, 2024The head of Israel's main Holocaust memorial centre has welcomed criticism levelled at three top U.S. university presidents over their comments on campus antisemitism but said an
April 26, 2024Donald Trump has a huge and expanded lead over his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination in a new poll in Iowa, the state that kicks off the party's nominating
April 26, 2024Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie called tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy "the most obnoxious blowhard in America." Ramaswamy said former U.S.
April 26, 2024A Texas woman on Tuesday asked a court to allow her to obtain an abortion despite the state's near-total ban on the procedure, saying her fetus was likely not viable and
April 26, 2024Here are reactions to the death of Henry Kissinger, a controversial Nobel Peace Prize winner who left an indelible mark on U.S. foreign policy: WINSTON LORD, FORMER U.S.
April 26, 2024Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer warned on Wednesday against blaming Jewish Americans for the actions of Israel's government, as antisemitism swelled in the
April 26, 2024The U.S. must change how it measures the well-being of its people - including gauging how much of a voice they feel they have in political outcomes - as part of a larger
April 26, 2024Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones cannot use his personal bankruptcy to escape paying defamation verdicts stemming from his repeated lies about the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school
April 26, 2024Over 700 people from the entertainment industry, including actors Gal Gadot, Michael Douglas and Jerry Seinfeld, signed an open letter in support of Israel in its conflict with
April 26, 2024Conservative Catholics have launched a barrage of challenges before a big Vatican meeting, with five cardinals demanding clarifications on same-sex couples
April 26, 2024U.S. presidential hopeful Robert F.
April 26, 2024Donald Trump on Thursday claimed a 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia was “nothing” compared to the college campus protests that have sparked around the country over the Israel-Hamas war
April 25, 2024The case argued before the Supreme Court has profound implications for Donald Trump − but also for the country.
April 25, 2024Kim Kardashian has joined Vice President Kamala Harris for a roundtable highlighting the administration’s efforts on criminal justice reform
April 25, 2024There was talk of drone strikes and presidential bribes, of a potential ruling “for the ages” and of the Founding Fathers, too
April 25, 2024Reggie Bush says the return of his Heisman Trophy is the biggest step yet in his fight against the NCAA to restore his reputation and his records from his incredible career at Southern California
April 25, 2024Special anti-terrorism measures being put in place to safeguard the unprecedented opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics on the River Seine will also apply to all buildings along the route
April 25, 2024United Methodist delegates have overwhelmingly endorsed a constitutional amendment seen by advocates as a way of defusing debates over the role of LGBTQ people in the church
April 25, 2024There are better ways to keep employees on board, such as boosting pay and providing better benefits.
April 25, 2024TikTok is hardly a model social media platform, but it’s also far from an outlier when it comes to threats to Americans.
April 25, 2024Scotland’s leader is facing a potential battle for survival after ending a three-year power-sharing agreement with the Scottish Green Party following a clash over climate change policies
April 25, 2024Italy is marking its liberation from Nazi occupation and fascist rule amid a fresh media controversy over the legacy of Italian fascist complicity in the Holocaust and World War II-era crimes
April 25, 2024Columbia University President Minouche Shafik's leadership is under fire
April 25, 2024On the left and right, Supreme Court justices seem to agree on a basic truth about the American system of government: No one is above the law, not even the president
April 25, 2024Human Rights Watch says military forces in Burkina Faso killed 223 civilians, including babies and many children, in attacks on two villages accused of cooperating with militants
April 25, 2024The North America’s Building Trades Unions has endorsed President Joe Biden
April 24, 2024Many Black patients experience stark differences in how they’re treated during medical interactions compared to white patients.
April 24, 2024Novels that tell complex and surprising stories of migration are among six finalists for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction
April 24, 2024Students at a growing number of U.S. colleges are gathering in pro-Palestinian encampments with a unified demand to end investments supporting Israel’s war in Gaza
April 24, 2024An effort to limit diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives is gaining momentum in state capitals and college campuses
April 24, 2024A new exhibit inside the federal agency that’s responsible for enforcing the nation’s gun laws features photos of the faces of more than 100 victims of gun violence
April 23, 2024A minor league baseball team in Montana is calling out the U.S. Department of Interior for “unwarranted and relentless” trademark claims in a battle over the use of an arrowhead logo
April 23, 2024Emily Henry knows that love can change your life
April 23, 2024Unlike recent years when there was an LGBTQ+ ally in the Louisiana governor's office, nothing stands in the way this year of legislation hostile to transgender people
April 23, 2024Not all teachers comply when asked to adjust student grades. An education scholar takes a look at what happens when they don’t.
April 23, 2024Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni’s far-right-led government has scored a victory with the Senate approving a law allowing anti-abortion groups access to women considering ending their pregnancies
April 23, 2024Cuban writer Leonardo Padura has managed to turn his series of detective novels into a social and political chronicle of Cuba, especially his native Havana
April 23, 2024President Joe Biden is traveling to Florida to assail the state’s forthcoming six-week abortion ban and similar restrictions nationwide
April 23, 2024At a time when book bans have soared to their highest levels in decades, a countertrend is emerging
April 23, 2024What I teach Harvard Law School students about the importance of opening arguments and how a majority of jurors make up their minds about a case after hearing them.
April 22, 2024The medical records of women will be shielded from criminal investigations if they cross state lines to seek an abortion where it is legal
April 22, 2024Ending institutional racism is a long-term goal and requires well-informed and engaged people to remake systems and structures
April 22, 2024Legal rulings throw fate of special scholarships for ethnic minorities into doubt.
April 22, 2024Lama Rod Owens describes himself as a Black Buddhist Southern Queen
April 21, 2024Republicans in Wyoming are deciding which presidential candidate will get their state’s votes at the GOP national convention
April 20, 2024Investments in public preschool have helped many parents through a child care crisis, in which quality options for early learners are often scarce and unaffordable
April 20, 2024A major argument for legalizing the adult use of cannabis after 75 years of prohibition was to stop the harm caused by disproportionate enforcement of drug laws in Black, Latino and other minority communities
April 20, 2024If the US wants to protect young people from misinformation and foreign influence, focusing on TikTok is barking up the wrong tree.
April 19, 2024The collective group of Summer Games sports has criticized World Athletics for promising to pay $50,000 for each track and field gold medal won at the Paris Olympics
April 19, 2024The rights of LGBTQ+ students will be protected by federal law and victims of campus sexual assault will gain new safeguards under new rules from the Biden administration
April 19, 2024Marijuana advocates are gearing up for April 20
April 19, 2024Nevada's Supreme Court has handed setbacks to gun-right defenders and anti-abortion activists in two new rulings
April 18, 2024A rhetoric scholar says Columbia University President Nemat Shafik fared much better than her predecessors at a hearing about how her school was handling antisemitism on campus.
April 18, 2024AI chatbot makers’ restrictive use policies hinder people’s access to information.
April 18, 2024The type of life and professional experience a police chief has can influence how their departments react to protests, new research finds.
April 18, 2024Europe wants two things from China: First, a shift in its relatively pro-Russia position on the war in Ukraine
April 18, 2024America stands with Japan until all Japanese abducted by North Korea decades ago return home to end their painful separation
April 18, 2024A poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that 45% of U.S. adults say they have become more concerned about climate change over the past year
April 18, 2024Twenty-three Republican attorneys general are attacking the Biden administration's stated goal of pursuing environmental justice
April 17, 2024Civil rights advocates say Mississippi needs to simplify the process of restoring voting rights to people convicted of some felonies
April 17, 2024A National Public Radio editor who wrote a critical essay saying that his company had become intolerant of all but liberal views has resigned
April 17, 2024Several U.S. courts have ruled this week on state laws restricting the rights of transgender young people
April 17, 2024Reagan and Trump − two of the most media-savvy Republican presidents − used religion to advance their political visions, but their messages and missions could not be more different.
April 17, 2024Both politicians are exploiting some tried and true rhetorical and psychological tactics.
April 17, 2024There are many outdated laws that states keep on the books, even if they aren’t used. If the Supreme Court overturns legal precedents on rights like same-sex and interracial marriage, that can change.
April 17, 2024Sometimes you need to buy a car you’ve never seen
April 17, 2024The U.N. population fund says in a new study that an African woman is roughly 130 times more likely to die from pregnancy and childbirth complications than a woman in Europe or North America
April 17, 2024British Foreign Secretary David Cameron says Israel “is making a decision to act” in response to Iran’s missile and drone attack over the weekend
April 17, 2024National Public Radio has reportedly suspended a veteran editor who wrote an essay for an outside outlet that criticized his employer for what he says is an unquestioned liberal point of view
April 16, 2024A judge has recommended that the conviction and death sentence of Texas inmate Melissa Lucio should be overturned
April 16, 2024Legal precedents hold that criminalizing someone for their status, such as being homeless, is cruel and unusual punishment. But what if that status leads to actions like sleeping in public spaces?
April 16, 2024There is no shortage of horror stories about online shaming, but it’s not always a bad thing. It comes down to who is doing the shaming and how cohesive the online community is.
April 16, 2024Boasting about centering your transformative systems change paradigm means you’re doing it wrong. But fixes are available.
April 16, 2024Alabama voters have cast their ballots to decide party nominees for the state’s 2nd Congressional District
April 16, 2024Some Indiana Republicans in key campaigns for office are fighting for access to detailed abortion reports that the health department stopped releasing to protect patient privacy under a near-total ban on the procedure
April 16, 2024Salman Rushdie's first book since the 2022 stabbing he thought might end his life is both explicit in the violence Rushdie sustains and heroic in the will to live that Rushdie retains
April 16, 2024For decades, Vietnamese people often been relegated to the background in popular cinematic depictions of the Vietnam War
April 15, 2024Cancel culture leads to educational detriments that can harm democracy.
April 15, 2024An independent experts commission has recommended that abortion in Germany should no longer fall under the country’s penal code and be made legal during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy
April 15, 2024It seems Americans don't think they're particularly well-rested
April 15, 2024Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government are increasingly wielding strong-arm tactics to subdue political opponents and critics of the ruling Hindu-nationalist party
April 15, 2024The near-total abortion ban resurrected last week by the Arizona Supreme Court dates to 1864, a time when gold-seekers were moving, white settlers were clashing with Native Americans and dueling had to be regulated
April 15, 2024Alex Garland’s provocative “Civil War” didn’t only ignite the discourse
April 14, 2024Twelve news organizations have issued a joint statement calling on presumptive presidential nominees Joe Biden and Donald Trump to agree to debates during the White House campaign
April 14, 2024The rural city of Grants Pass in southern Oregon has become the unlikely face of the nation’s homelessness crisis as its case over anti-camping laws goes to the U.S. Supreme Court
April 14, 2024A growing number of progressive candidates are choosing to tell their own abortion stories
April 13, 2024No woman has appeared more often before the Supreme Court than Lisa Blatt, who'll make her 50th argument this month
April 13, 2024The United Methodist Church lost one-fourth of its U.S. churches in a recent schism, with conservatives departing over disputes on sexuality and theology
April 13, 2024President Joe Biden looks to nudge further ahead in his party’s nomination for reelection with Democratic voting Saturday in Wyoming and Alaska
April 13, 2024Jill Biden says former Republican President Donald Trump is a “bully” who is “dangerous” for the LGBTQ community
April 12, 2024Donald Trump is declaring anew that the Arizona Supreme Court “went too far” with a ruling allowing prosecutors to enforce a near-total abortion ban
April 12, 2024Thirty years ago, women’s rights advocates working to pass the 1994 Violence Against Women Act found domestic violence was still something of a hushed topic
April 12, 2024The Army says it will not restart the use of horse-drawn caissons at Arlington National Cemetery for months and maybe longer as it struggles to improve the care of the horses
April 12, 2024As PEN America begins its annual spring tradition of high-profile events, the organization faces criticisms from numerous writers who are unhappy with its stance on the war in Gaza
April 12, 2024Since the ‘trial of the century,’ the lines between news and entertainment have become increasingly blurred.
April 12, 2024Twenty years ago this month, photos of abused prisoners and smiling U.S. soldiers guarding them at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison were released, shocking the world
April 12, 2024Lawmakers in at least 12 states are debating bills that would legalize physician-assisted death
April 12, 2024A new poll from the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that more than half of U.S. adults think Joe Biden’s presidency has hurt the country on cost of living and immigration
April 12, 2024President Joe Biden is expected to give a live virtual keynote address to the Rev. Al Sharpton’s racial justice conference in New York
April 11, 2024Tennessee lawmakers are considering criminalizing adults who help minors receive gender-affirming care without parental consent
April 11, 2024Some Muslim and Arab American leaders have grown frustrated with the outreach from President Joe Biden's White House as the war in Gaza drags on
April 11, 2024Diversity, equity and inclusion are good for the bottom line.
April 11, 2024Programs and policies to help domestic abuse survivors find safe housing work only if they’re implemented and supported with resources.
April 11, 2024Poland's parliament is finally holding a long-awaited debate on liberalizing the country's strict abortion law
April 11, 2024Most news organizations hold its journalists to strict ethical standards to avoid conflicts of interest either real or perceived
April 11, 2024Frightening to some, exciting to others, baffling to many: Artificial intelligence has been called an economic game changer, a threat to democracy or even an existential threat to humanity
April 11, 2024A federal appeals court is hearing arguments over Arkansas' first-in-the-nation ban on gender-affirming care for minors
April 11, 2024A new study has found that voters in 19 countries, including in three of the world’s largest democracies, are widely skeptical about whether their political elections are free and fair
April 11, 2024A deadly traffic stop where plainclothes Chicago police officers fired nearly 100 shots in under a minute has raised serious questions about the use of force and role of tactical officers in police departments
April 10, 2024Voters have sided with abortion rights supporters every time the issue has been directly on the ballot since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the nationwide right to abortion in 2022
April 10, 2024Sen. Rick Scott of Florida is joining other Republican incumbents scrambling to strike a balance in their abortion rights messaging
April 10, 2024The 97th Academy Awards will be held March 2
April 10, 2024Voters in a New Hampshire town have passed an ordinance addressing what local officials call “a path forward” for the installation of murals and other public artwork
April 10, 2024Donald Trump says an Arizona law that criminalizes nearly all abortions goes too far and the former president called on Arizona lawmakers to change it
April 10, 2024An effort to amend the Maine Constitution to enshrine the right to an abortion is coming up short
April 10, 2024When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, Republicans insisted the ruling would mostly impact those seeking abortions to end unwanted pregnancies
April 10, 2024A man’s world? Art exhibit about misogyny was only open to women — until a man complained
April 10, 2024A report from a senior doctor in England says children who question their gender identity are being let down by lack of evidence and a toxic political debate
April 10, 2024Sports media has typically operated under a ‘one and done’ model: focus on women’s sports during high-profile events, before returning to routine coverage of men.
April 10, 2024A Florence appeals court on Wednesday opens a new slander trial against Amanda Knox based on a 2016 European Court of Human Rights decision that her rights were violated during a long night of questioning into the murder of her British roommate without a lawyer and official translator
April 10, 2024Many other past Olympic hosts around the world have decided in recent years that bringing back the Games isn’t worth the money or hassle
April 10, 2024The Arizona Supreme Court has delivered a landmark decision in giving the go-ahead to enforce a long-dormant law that bans nearly all abortions
April 10, 2024Two tribal nations are accusing social media companies of contributing to high rates of suicides that disproportionately affect Native American youth
April 09, 2024The sister of one of the victims of the deadliest mass shooting in Maine history is accusing state lawmakers of acting “nefariously” by pressing at the 11th hour for a so-called red flag law
April 09, 2024The Vatican has issued a new document rejecting the concept of changing one’s biological sex
April 09, 2024The new film “Civil War” is an ominous attempt to turn widely held American anxieties into a violent, unsettling big-screen reality
April 09, 2024An Arizona Supreme Court decision that will end virtually all abortions in the state puts the issue front and center in a battleground state
April 09, 2024Across the country, book bans and attempted bans have soared to the highest levels in decades
April 09, 2024The chairman of Japan’s Nippon Foundation says the charity will spend $2 million to help move tens of thousands more Rohingya refugees to a remote island in Bangladesh and provide them with skills training
April 09, 2024MLB and its history are dotted with men who played out of their natural handedness, a phenomenon that is seen occasionally in other sports but is a regular occurrence on the diamond
April 08, 2024President Joe Biden is taking another shot at student loan cancellation, hoping to deliver on a key campaign promise that he has so far failed to deliver
April 08, 2024For conservative, anti-abortion Christians, former President Donald Trump delivered in four years what no other Republican before him had been able to do
April 08, 2024Donald Trump still says he’s proud that the Supreme Court justices he nominated overturned Roe v. Wade
April 08, 2024Transgender Catholics are voicing disappointment with a new Vatican document rejecting the fundamental concept of changing one’s biological sex
April 08, 2024Laws such as Alabama’s controversial ruling that gives personhood rights to frozen embryos will have ripple effects on how advance directives are interpreted by doctors and the courts.
April 08, 2024The Vatican has declared that sex change operations and surrogacy are grave threats to human dignity
April 08, 2024Former President Donald Trump says he will finally announce Monday when in pregnancy he believes abortions should be banned
April 08, 2024Experts expect a surge of misinformation targeting Spanish-speaking voters with a high-stakes presidential election in the fall as candidates vie for support from the rapidly growing number of Latino voters
April 08, 2024Manchester United had already ended Liverpool’s quadruple challenge and looked set to deliver a major blow to Jurgen Klopp’s hopes of bowing out at the end of the season with a second Premier League title
April 07, 2024Former teammates, Braves executives and family members remember Hank Aaron's unwavering strength despite receiving racist hate mail and threats during his pursuit of Babe Ruth's home run record
April 07, 2024As he campaigns for a second term, President Joe Biden is highlighting how women’s health has been affected by the overturning of federal abortion protections
April 07, 2024The West Virginia United Students’ Union is the leading oppositional force against cuts at the state's flagship university
April 07, 2024The oldest-ever president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has so far created a mixed legacy that some churchgoers say has made its global membership feel more included but has left LGBTQ+ members feeling unsupported
April 07, 2024Iowa guard Gabbie Marshall says she received “hate comments” from people upset about her role in a much-discussed foul call late in the Hawkeyes’ Final Four win over UConn
April 06, 2024South Carolina coach Dawn Staley said she believes transgender athletes should be allowed to compete in women’s sports
April 06, 2024As the presidential election draws nearer, the spread of bogus information online is getting a huge boost from social media accounts that have been created anonymously
April 06, 2024UConn's bid to reach the national championship game ended with a disputed call
April 06, 2024Months after Maine’s deadliest mass shooting, state lawmakers held an hourslong hearing to debate a so-called red flag bill that would let family members petition a judge to remove guns from someone experiencing a psychiatric crisis
April 05, 2024Independent presidential candidate Robert F
April 05, 2024College athletes have made substantial progress in being able to get paid for the use of their name, image and likeness − except in one realm.
April 05, 2024Maia Kobabe’s graphic memoir “Gender Queer” continues its troubled run as the country’s most controversial book, topping the American Library Association’s “challenged books” list for a third straight year
April 05, 2024An international campaign to ban surrogacy has received a strong endorsement from the Vatican
April 05, 2024The need to connect is fundamental. But diminishing social ties and community support are contributing to the loneliness epidemic.
April 05, 2024‘Natural’ isn’t the same thing as healthful. You can have too much of a good thing, and taking action can be worse than doing nothing.
April 05, 2024Donald Trump’s former Defense Secretary Mark Esper has called the former president a “threat to democracy” and says he won't vote for him in 2024
April 05, 2024Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's new book “True Gretch” will detail her five-year tenure as governor and her journey along the way
April 05, 2024Attorneys defending Tennessee’s sweeping abortion ban have alleged that doctors challenging the law do not want any oversight when deciding to terminate a pregnancy and instead are improperly withholding care to women facing serious medical emergencies
April 04, 2024The No Labels group says it won't field a presidential candidate in November after strategists for the bipartisan organization were unable to attract a candidate willing to seize on the widespread dissatisfaction with President Joe Biden and Donald Trump
April 04, 2024French President Emmanuel Macron says France and its allies “could have stopped” the 1994 Rwanda genocide and “lacked the will to do so.”
April 04, 2024The big question: Would climate engineering like sending reflective particles into the stratosphere or brightening clouds help reduce the national security risks of climate change or make them worse?
April 04, 2024More than 600 British jurists are calling on the government to suspend arms sales to Israel
April 04, 2024More than 250 Holocaust survivors have joined an international initiative to share their stories of loss and survival with students around the world during a time of rising antisemitism following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel that triggered the war in the Gaza Strip
April 04, 2024Former President Bill Clinton has a memoir coming out this fall about his years since leaving public office in 2001
April 03, 2024In the summer of 2022, days before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, some 500 high school girls gathered in Missouri for a weeklong mock government camp in which they elected their own governor and seated an all-female Supreme Court that would rule on their own bodies
April 03, 2024Britain’s main opposition parties are demanding that the Conservative government publish legal advice it has received on whether Israel has broken international humanitarian law during the war in Gaza
April 03, 2024A new poll finds that most Americans share many core values on what it means to be an American despite the country’s deep political polarization
April 03, 2024The vote in Wisconsin to approve a pair of proposed constitutional amendments that would limit how state elections are run and paid for fell largely along party lines
April 03, 2024A company that provides services for immigrants in federal detention has been ordered to pay more than $811 million in restitution and penalties in a lawsuit alleging it used deceptive and abusive tactics
April 02, 2024Democrats hope that a ballot measure seeking to preserve abortion rights will put Florida back in play as the nation’s largest presidential swing state
April 02, 2024A federal judge has ruled that New Mexico election officials violated public disclosure provisions of the National Voter Registration Act by refusing to provide voter rolls to a conservative group and its public online database
April 02, 2024Wallace Peeples has lived many lives — activist, speechmaker, podcaster, social media influencer — since serving 20 years in prison
April 02, 2024Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers vetoed a bill passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature that would have banned high school transgender athletes from competing on teams that align with their gender identity
April 02, 2024President Joe Biden is hosting a small group of Muslim American community leaders at the White House for a meeting and a scaled-down Iftar dinner
April 02, 2024Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony M
April 02, 2024Not all activists are in the media spotlight, but they’re crucial to promoting action to slow climate change.
April 02, 2024Pope Francis has exposed the political “maneuvers” used to sway votes during the two most recent elections of popes in a book-length interview
April 02, 2024More than 20 countries across Africa have loosened restrictions on abortion in recent years, but experts say many women probably don’t realize they are entitled to a legal abortion
April 02, 2024Former President Donald Trump will continue to hammer President Joe Biden over his border policies during a trip to two pivotal midwestern states that could determine the outcome of the 2024 election
April 02, 2024The Florida Supreme Court has upheld the state’s ban on most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy
April 01, 2024When dementia patients on Medicare enroll in hospice, they lose other crucial supports and services.
April 01, 2024A few Ivy League schools say the tests enable them to find students of promise from low-income families. But not all sociologists agree.
April 01, 2024In Donald Trump's speeches and online posts, the Republican presidential candidate has ramped up anti-immigrant rhetoric and his messaging often relies on falsehoods about migration
April 01, 2024A ruling that weakened a key part of the Voting Rights Act is spurring lawmakers in several states to enact state-level protections to plug gaps that the courts opened in the landmark federal law
April 01, 2024A group of students from a New Orleans high school staged a play they developed on the steps of Louisiana's Capitol to protest a series of anti-LGBTQ+ legislative proposals
March 31, 2024Generations of working-class Marylanders watched in disbelief this week as an iconic symbol of their maritime culture crumbled into the Patapsco River
March 31, 2024President Joe Biden is facing criticism from Donald Trump and religious conservatives for proclaiming March 31 — which corresponds with Easter Sunday this year — as “Transgender Day of Visibility.”
March 30, 2024A 15-year volunteer effort is helping identify the fates of thousands of Alaskans who were shipped to a controversial psychiatric hospital in Oregon between 1904 and the 1960s
March 30, 2024Many Americans are in a sour mood about the economy for one main reason: Prices feel too high
March 30, 2024Georgia could join other states in requiring children younger than 16 to have their parents’ explicit permission to create social media accounts
March 29, 2024NBC News' messy hiring and firing of former Republican National Committee head Ronna McDaniel puts a spotlight on television's practice of paying on-air political contributors
March 29, 2024House Republicans invited President Joe Biden to testify before Congress as part of their impeachment inquiry into him and his family’s business affairs
March 28, 2024Joe Lieberman served as No Labels' chief defender when the critics got the loudest
March 28, 2024The Oscar-nominated documentary “Food, Inc” helped change the way many consumers think about the systems behind the things we eat
March 28, 2024A judge has recommended that conservative attorney John Eastman lose his California law license over his efforts to keep former President Donald Trump in power after the 2020 election
March 27, 2024The second day of former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark's disciplinary system painted a picture of someone who, despite numerous attempts by his superiors to convince him otherwise, remained adamant that there were instances of irregularities and fraud in the 2020 election that required deeper examination
March 27, 2024A women’s roller derby league in suburban New York City has thrust itself into the national discussion over the rights of transgender athletes
March 27, 2024When the Supreme Court ended affirmative action, it left the college essay as one of few places where race can play a role in admissions decisions
March 27, 2024Religious and neo-conservative groups have been ramping up pressure to ban abortions in staunchly Catholic Croatia
March 27, 2024Days after Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey blamed an after-school fight on a school district’s diversity programming, a lawyer for the majority Black district in suburban St. Louis says the state’s chief attorney is showing racial bias
March 26, 2024A prominent journalist in Belarus has been designated a political prisoner by the country’s leading human rights group
March 26, 2024U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday did not appear ready to limit Americans’ access to the abortion pill mifepristone, in a case that could have sweeping implications for how the federal government approves scores of medications
March 26, 2024Advocates for adult victims of childhood sexual abuse say they will ask Louisiana’s Supreme Court to reconsider a ruling that wiped out 2021 legislation giving them a renewed opportunity to file damage lawsuits
March 26, 2024Former President Donald Trump is hawking Bibles as he runs to return to the White House
March 26, 2024As government officials debate how to handle the influx of new arrivals, the Girl Scouts — whose Troop 6000 has served kids who live in the shelter system since 2017 — are quietly welcoming hundreds of the city’s youngest new residents with the support of donations
March 26, 2024The main Venezuelan opposition coalition has said that electoral authorities didn’t let it register its candidate for the presidential election as the deadline ended, in what it called the latest violation to the citizens’ right to vote for a change in the South American country
March 26, 2024A high school teacher and two students are suing Arkansas over the state's ban on critical race theory in public schools
March 25, 2024The Supreme Court is considering a new abortion case affecting women across the U.S. Abortion opponents want the high court in arguments Tuesday to ratify a ruling from a conservative federal appeals court that would limit access to a medication called mifepristone, which was used in nearly two-thirds of abortions last year
March 25, 2024Former ‘Meet the Press’ moderator Chuck Todd says that some NBC News journalists are uncomfortable that the network had hired former Republican National Committee head Ronna McDaniel as a paid contributor
March 24, 2024LSU coach Kim Mulkey is sharply criticizing and threatening legal action against The Washington Post
March 23, 2024When Opal Lee was 12, a racist mob, angered that a Black family had moved in, drove her family out of their Texas home
March 23, 2024The bones that embody an album can take many shapes
March 22, 2024A cluster of Bollywood films based on polarizing issues that promote Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government’s Hindu nationalist agenda are coming out
March 22, 2024California lawmakers are split on how to best address the retail theft cases that have proliferated in the state
March 22, 2024Pope Francis has defrocked a notorious Belgian bishop who admitted 14 years ago that he sexually abused his nephew but faced no Vatican punishment
March 21, 2024Many Jewish faith leaders and commentators are decrying what they say are inflammatory remarks by Donald Trump
March 21, 2024President Vladimir Putin has thanked Russians for casting ballots in a presidential vote in which he cemented his grip on the country for another six years after the harshest crackdown on dissent since Soviet times
March 21, 2024A new poll shows that Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in the United States are highly supportive of legal abortion, even in situations where the pregnant person wants an abortion for any reason
March 21, 2024Agent Scott Boras defended himself and the leadership of the Major League Baseball Players Association against a faction pushing for a change in the union’s lead negotiator
March 20, 2024A federal judge has suggested Michael Cohen has committed perjury under oath, giving fresh support to former President Donald Trump's claims that his onetime personal lawyer and star witness at his upcoming criminal trial in New York is an untrustworthy liar
March 20, 2024Voters around the world who worry about growing threats to democratic freedoms should consider electing more women in countries’ national elections this year
March 20, 2024March Madness might look very different if not for the Supreme Court.
March 20, 2024Senegal’s only female presidential candidate may stand no chance of winning in Sunday's election, but activists say her presence alone is helping to advance a decadeslong campaign to achieve equality in the West African nation
March 20, 2024Republican attorneys general in two dozen states are pushing back against a proposed Biden administration rule that seeks to expand diversity in apprenticeship programs
March 20, 2024Election misinformation will pose a formidable challenge this year as billions of people in dozens of countries head to the polls
March 20, 2024Donald Trump is suggesting that he’d support a national ban on abortions around 15 weeks of pregnancy, voicing for the first time support for a specific limit on the procedure
March 20, 2024A divided Supreme Court has lifted a stay on a Texas law that gives police broad powers to arrest migrants suspected of crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally while a legal battle over immigration authority plays out
March 19, 2024An exploration of racism on social media and a history of Native Americans are among the winners of J
March 19, 2024A group of Buddhist faith leaders and community members gathered in the city of Antioch, California, for the “first national Buddhist memorial service and pilgrimage in response to anti-Asian hate.”
March 19, 2024Contrary to popular belief, there has been some defense played in the NBA this season
March 19, 2024Former President Donald Trump on Monday charged that Jews who vote for Democrats “hate Israel” and hate “their religion,” igniting a firestorm of criticism from the White House and Jewish leaders
March 19, 2024Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to a long list of state and federal charges for torturing two Black men will be sentenced by a federal judge starting Tuesday
March 18, 2024The history of slavery in America is the focus of a new sculpture park in Montgomery, Alabama
March 18, 2024From April 19 to June 1, nearly 970 million Indians are eligible to vote in general elections
March 18, 2024Democracy takes many forms, and some are more direct than others
March 18, 2024Former President Donald Trump claimed that he — not President Joe Biden — will protect Social Security and warned of a “bloodbath” if he loses in November as he campaigned for Senate candidate Bernie Moreno in Ohio
March 16, 2024Vice President Kamala Harris says it's “absurd” that the federal government classifies marijuana as more dangerous than fentanyl, the synthetic opioid blamed for tens of thousands of deaths in the United States
March 15, 2024Trump White House official Peter Navarro appealed to the Supreme Court Friday to allow him to stay out of prison as he appeals his contempt of Congress conviction
March 15, 2024The rights of LGBTQ+ people continue to be in flux across the U.S. with a new flurry of developments
March 15, 2024Senate Republicans are taking aim at a new federal courts policy aimed at curbing “judge shopping,” a practice that gained national attention in a major abortion medication case
March 14, 2024A ruling by the Wisconsin Supreme Court is raising the bar for religions to show that their charity arms deserve tax exemptions
March 14, 2024With the Supreme Court’s approval hovering near record lows, two justices have teamed up to promote the art of disagreeing without being nasty about it
March 14, 2024Racism can be a workplace issue, even at Home Depot.
March 14, 2024As the national debate over Black history continues, one aspect of the legacy of race in America is undergoing something of a rebirth: Black cemeteries that were established in the era of segregation
March 14, 2024Anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders says it is unfair and “constitutionally wrong” that he had to sacrifice his leadership aspirations in order to pave the way for a right-wing ruling coalition in the Netherlands after his party won elections in November
March 14, 2024A Japanese high court has ruled that denying same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and called for urgent government action to address the lack of any law allowing for such unions
March 14, 2024More than half of Americans say they are against college athletes unionizing, though younger respondents were more supportive than older, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research
March 13, 2024Cubans are often divided on many issues
March 13, 2024Ohlone people and others are rejoicing over the return of sacred Native land dating back thousands of years
March 13, 2024Federal courts are moving to make it harder to file lawsuits in front of judges seen as friendly to a point of view, a practice known as judge shopping that gained national attention in a major abortion-medication case
March 12, 2024“Pics, or it didn't happen” has been a common refrain when seeking proof that someone’s story or some event actually took place
March 12, 2024His writing won China’s first Nobel Prize for Literature, but is it patriotic enough for Xi Jinping’s China
March 12, 2024Online influencer Andrew Tate has been detained in Romania and handed an arrest warrant issued by British authorities
March 12, 2024Joe Biden and Donald Trump hope to clinch their parties’ presidential nominations with dominant victories in a slate of low-profile state primaries as the 2024 fight for the White House lurches into a new phase
March 12, 2024“Barbenheimer” brought a bump not a boom to Oscars ratings
March 11, 2024An independent report has found New Jersey and the nation were not prepared when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and the state remains underprepared for the next emergency
March 11, 2024School board members in one Massachusetts district have called for the National Guard to address student misbehavior. Does their request have merit? A school discipline expert weighs in.
March 11, 2024The sexual abuse of children by Catholic sisters and nuns has been overshadowed by far more common reports of male clergy abuse
March 11, 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin came to power almost 25 years ago and since then he's eliminated nearly all independent media — a process he ramped up after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine
March 11, 2024President Joe Biden made abortion and reproductive rights a central theme of his State of the Union speech, but he never mentioned the word “abortion.”
March 10, 2024President Joe Biden says he believes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “hurting Israel more than helping Israel” in how he is approaching its war against Hamas in Gaza
March 09, 2024Pope Francis has said in an interview that Ukraine, facing possible defeat, should have the courage to negotiate an end to the war with Russia and not be ashamed to sit at the same table to carry out peace talks
March 09, 2024Njeri Migwi is the co-founder of a community-based organization called Usikimye, which means “Don't be silent” in Swahili
March 09, 2024The United Nations chief says legal equality for women could take centuries as the fight for gender equality has become an uphill struggle against rank discrimination and gross human human rights abuses
March 09, 2024A panel featuring Meghan the Duchess of Sussex came together on International Women’s Day to discuss how women and mothers are portrayed in traditional media and across social media, among other issues
March 08, 2024Indiana lawmakers have passed a bill that defines antisemitism in education code
March 08, 2024President Joe Biden is facing disappointment and anger from some allies for calling the suspect in the killing of a Georgia nursing student an “illegal” during his State of the Union speech
March 08, 2024President Joe Biden is all-in on calling out “shrinkflation.”
March 08, 2024The New York Police Department has been taking a more active role in trying to influence public policy through slick online videos and social media posts
March 08, 2024Fresh off his defiant State of the Union address, President Joe Biden and his senior aides will barnstorm the country starting Friday to aggressively sell his vision for a second term to voters
March 08, 2024For all its praise, the film furthers the dominant narrative of the bombs as a morally fraught but necessary project, with American anxieties playing a starring role.
March 08, 2024By compiling stories about the accomplishments of women, Christine set out to build an allegorical city where women and their achievements would be safe from sexist insults and slander.
March 08, 2024Over 230 million women and girls have undergone female genital mutilation, most of whom live in Africa, according to a report issued on Friday by the United Nations children’s agency
March 08, 2024Russians who are too fearful to protest in the streets are finding an outlet for their activism by writing letters to political prisoners
March 08, 2024France’s leaders will use a Napoleon-era press to seal the right to abortion into the country's constitution
March 08, 2024During the State of the Union address, the House speaker and vice president sit behind the president
March 08, 2024Republicans had demanded it but never expected President Joe Biden to say it during his State of the Union address
March 08, 2024The State of the Union was one of President Joe Biden's best chances to make the broadest possible case for his reelection
March 08, 2024The Michigan Court of Appeals has denied a request to reconsider its earlier opinion stating that a former Grand Rapids police officer should stand trial for murder in the 2022 killing of a Black motorist
March 08, 2024Sen. Katie Britt will call President Joe Biden a “dithering and diminished leader” in the Republican rebuttal to his State of the Union address Thursday evening
March 08, 2024Shane Lowry knows he's playing good golf
March 07, 2024Democratic lawmakers have walked out of a Kentucky House committee hearing as the GOP-led panel was taking up a bill to expand access to prebirth and newborn services for pregnant women carrying nonviable fetuses that are expected to die before or soon after birth
March 07, 2024In his State of the Union address, President Joe Biden will make an explicit appeal to the divided Congress for his “unity agenda.”
March 07, 2024Women are underrepresented in architecture, occupying just 25% of jobs in the field. An architecture professor shares insights from her childhood on how those numbers can be turned around.
March 07, 2024Christian voters and faith leaders have long been in the frontlines of providing assistance to migrants
March 07, 2024More than a quarter of female Black voters describe abortion as their top issue in this year’s presidential election
March 07, 2024Kansas would require abortion providers to ask patients why they’re terminating their pregnancies and report the answers to the state under a measure moving through the Republican-controlled Legislature
March 07, 2024President Joe Biden is set to use his State of the Union address to promote his vision for a second term to a dispirited electorate who questions whether he’s up to the job and to warn that GOP front-runner Donald Trump would be a dangerous alternative
March 07, 2024Over the past decade, Grace Subathirai Nathan graduated from law school, got married, opened a law firm and had two babies
March 07, 2024The U_S_ Constitution spells it out clearly in Article II, Section 3: The president “shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.”
March 06, 2024Disagreements among Indiana lawmakers could stop passage of a bill aiming to address antisemitism on college campuses, leaving Indiana students and professors uneasy as divisions surrounding the ongoing Israel-Hamas war deepen
March 06, 2024Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has offered his “deepest sympathy” to the family of a 5-year-old girl who was seriously injured in a drunken driving crash, after facing criticism for releasing from prison the driver who caused the crash, former Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid
March 06, 2024A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds few Americans want the U.S. to take a more active role in solving the world's problems
March 06, 2024When it comes to electing a woman president, the ceiling holds
March 06, 2024Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has endorsed Donald Trump for president
March 06, 2024Loss of privacy is just the beginning. Workers are worried about biased AI and the need to perform the ‘right’ expressions and body language for the algorithms.
March 06, 2024Republican former baseball star Steve Garvey has secured a U.S. Senate showdown with Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff on a shoestring budget and with a light campaign schedule
March 06, 2024Over the last decade, Vladimir Putin’s government has evolved from tolerating dissent to ruthlessly suppressing any activities or people who dared challenge it
March 06, 2024Donald Trump's lawyers say the ex-president deserves a new trial and a fresh chance to tell a jury why he berated writer E
March 06, 2024The Academy Awards honor many things in movies but not some of the most important
March 05, 2024The Veterans Affairs secretary is reversing a department memo that aimed to ban VA displays of the iconic “V-J Day in Times Square” photograph showing a Navy sailor kissing a strange woman on the streets of New York at the end of World War II
March 05, 2024Three philanthropy scholars discuss several trends in giving by the wealthiest Americans highlighted in this yearly report. Among them: Much of this money doesn’t go to charities right away.
March 05, 2024Though only a few of Scorsese’s films focus on religious stories, deeper questions about faith, doubt and living in a violent world tend to haunt his movies.
March 05, 2024Hopefully, Academy Award winners will be chosen because voters believed in the actors’ performances − not because of some meta narrative about their off-screen behavior.
March 05, 2024A union of immigration judges has been ordered to get supervisor approval to speak to anyone outside the Justice Department, potentially quieting a frequent critic of heavily backlogged immigration courts in an election year
March 05, 2024A far-right, unofficial Catholic media site has agreed to pay $500,000 to a New Hampshire priest who sued for defamation over a 2019 article
March 04, 2024Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker says she's very concerned by the arrest of two of the city's top LGBTQ leaders during a highway stop
March 04, 2024:Former President Donald Trump scored a clear win at the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, which unanimously ruled that states don’t have the ability to bar him — or any other federal candidates — from the ballot under a rarely-used constitutional provision that prohibits those who “engaged in insurrection” from holding office
March 04, 2024Candidates on the verge of winning their parties’ nominations generally change their messaging as part of a so-called pivot
March 04, 2024With attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives raging, Black women looking to climb the corporate ladder face a more hostile landscape than ever
March 04, 2024The proposed move of the Capitals and Wizards sports teams to nearby Virginia has stoked concern in a pair of fragile Washington neighborhoods
March 04, 2024A poll finds that a growing share of U.S. adults doubt that 81-year-old President Joe Biden has the memory and acuity for the job
March 04, 2024There are few times in a American presidency that the art of speechwriting is more on display than during a State of the Union
March 03, 2024Jos Verstappen says the Red Bull Formula One team will “explode” if Christian Horner stays on as team principal
March 03, 2024Super Tuesday is almost here, with 16 states holding contests this coming week
March 03, 2024Teachers at Head Start child care centers are paid far less than public school teachers, even though they have similar credentials
March 03, 2024Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to be among those marking the 59th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the day Alabama law officers attacked Civil Rights demonstrators at the iconic Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama
March 03, 2024Democratic voters in suburban Minneapolis seem far less interested in sending President Joe Biden a message of dissatisfaction with him than they are in keeping Republican Donald Trump from returning to the White House
March 02, 2024The only surviving member of the mountaineering expedition that first conquered Mount Everest says the world’s highest peak is too crowded and too dirty and the mountain is a god that needs to be respected
March 02, 2024Groups representing Alabama doctors and hospitals are urging the state Supreme Court to revisit a decision equating frozen embryos to children
March 02, 2024The final images of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny are tinged with deep despair for many of his compatrios
March 01, 2024Martha Beatriz Roque Cabello, a veteran Cuban dissident and leading proponent of human rights who was imprisoned twice but never left the island, will be awarded the 2024 International Women of Courage Award, a recognition granted by the U.S. Department of State
March 01, 2024The success of the African American Film Critics Association didn’t happen overnight
March 01, 2024Black Americans have endured considerable injustices and barriers to prosperity and equality throughout U.S. history
March 01, 2024The recent ruling in Alabama that frozen embryos are legally considered children has created a political firestorm after the decision halted treatment for many couples trying to have families through fertility treatments
March 01, 2024Most Americans see China as the biggest threat to the US. But away from headline economic figures, China has a slew of challenges.
March 01, 2024The United Kingdom is poised to hold its first election in five years in a country battered by the cost-of-living crisis, the fallout from Israel-Hamas conflict and deep divisions over how to deal with migrants and asylum seekers crossing the English Channel from Europe on small inflatable boats
March 01, 2024A Des Moines arts organization is preparing to rip out a roughly 30-year-old artwork that lines a beloved pond in a historic city park, outraging arts advocates nationally and surprising local residents
March 01, 2024Cable television is filled with ghosts
March 01, 2024Relatives and supporters of Alexei Navalny are bidding farewell to the opposition leader at a funeral in southeastern Moscow, following a battle with authorities over the release of his body after his still-unexplained death in an Arctic penal colony
March 01, 2024Georgia Republicans are voting to protect religious rights from state and local governments
March 01, 2024More than one-third of the total delegates available in both the Republican and Democratic presidential primaries will be awarded on Super Tuesday, when 16 states and one territory hold presidential nominating contests
February 29, 2024South Dakota’s Republican-controlled Legislature has approved the creation of a video to outline the state’s abortion laws and to clarify when health care providers are legally allowed to intervene
February 29, 2024Stacy Wakefield is being remembered for her passion for service, which included visits with cancer-stricken kids up until the final months of her life
February 29, 2024A small nicotine pouch called Zyn has sparked a big debate among politicians, pundits and experts
February 29, 2024A bill which criminalizes LGBTQ+ people in Ghana and their supporters has drawn international condemnation after it was passed by parliament, with the United Nations calling it “profoundly disturbing” and urging for it not to become law
February 29, 2024The editor-in-chief of the renowned Russian independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta has been detained in Moscow after being accused of discrediting Russia’s armed forces
February 29, 2024Satirical French newspaper La Bougie du Sapeur only comes out on Feb. 29, once every four years
February 29, 2024Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says Britain is descending into “mob rule” because of the pressures created by protests against the Israel-Hamas war
February 29, 2024A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that U.S. adults have become fractured along party lines in their support for military aid for Ukraine
February 29, 2024Dearborn and two other Michigan cities with large Arab and Muslim populations turned against President Joe Biden in the state’s primary after Democratic leaders there warned for months that voters were angry about his handling of the Israel-Hamas war
February 28, 2024The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether former President Donald Trump can be prosecuted on charges he interfered with the 2020 election and has set a course for a quick resolution
February 28, 2024Old age may be debated as a liability on the presidential campaign trail, but it's not at this year’s Oscars
February 28, 2024Here’s how things seem to work regarding LIV Golf and Rory McIlroy: Someone says something, the other side responds, and the cycle just keeps repeating from one topic to the next
February 28, 2024Supporters who want to make South Carolina the next-to-last U.S. state to pass a hate crimes law increasing penalties for some crimes fueled by race, gender or sexual orientation are running out of time
February 28, 2024A survey of 24 democratic countries by the Pew Research Center has found that while representative democracy remains a favorite system of governance around the globe, its appeal is slipping on the eve of elections worldwide
February 28, 2024The number of monthly abortions in the U.S. is similar to what it was before the nation's top court overturned the right to abortion
February 28, 2024Talor Gooch knows all about sports that are louder
February 27, 2024No other 20th-century American novel did quite so much to burnish Brooklyn’s reputation. But Smith rarely saw her hometown through rose-colored glasses − and even grew to resent it.
February 27, 2024An author and ghost writer’s life story, from prison and drug addiction to collaborating with the Dalai Lama and the Archbishop Desmond Tutu among others, is Oprah Winfrey’s latest book club selection
February 27, 2024Efforts in Republican-led states to write definitions of male and female into law are leading to outcry that the measures deny transgender people legal recognition
February 27, 2024San Francisco’s supervisors plan to offer a formal apology to Black residents for decades of racist laws and policies perpetrated by the city
February 27, 2024For political prisoners, life in Russia’s penal colonies and labor camps is a grim reality of physical and psychological pressure, insufficient food, poor health care, sleep deprivation and arbitrary rules that are impossible to obey
February 27, 2024More than two-thirds of the U.N. Security Council’s members have demanded that the Taliban rescind all policies and decrees oppressing and discriminating against women and girls, including banning girls education above the sixth grade and women’s right to work and move freely
February 27, 2024Hundreds of medical professionals in West Virginia have signed onto a letter condemning a bill advancing in the state House of Delegates that would bar transgender youth at risk for suicide from accessing medical interventions like hormone therapy
February 26, 2024Donald Trump appears close to invincible in the early Republican primaries and caucuses, but his strength among general election voters remains unclear
February 26, 2024The Russian authorities have sought a prison sentence of nearly three years for a veteran human rights advocate who spoke out against the war in Ukraine
February 26, 2024President Joe Biden and Utah Gov. Spencer Cox are calling for less bitterness and more bipartisanship in American politics
February 25, 2024While President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are the overwhelming favorites to once again win their parties’ nomination for a second term, they’re not the “presumptive nominees” just yet
February 24, 2024Former President Donald Trump cast November’s presidential election as “judgment day” and declared himself a “political dissident” during a speech before conservative activists outside of Washington
February 24, 2024Major League Baseball’s move to slice two seconds off the pitch clock with runners on base is too much, too soon, according to the head of the players’ union
February 24, 2024Polls suggest South Africa faces a historic turning point in a national election in May
February 24, 2024An Illinois judge who sparked outrage by reversing a man’s rape conviction involving a 16-year-old girl has been removed from the bench after a judicial oversight body found he circumvented the law and engaged in misconduct
February 24, 2024A recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are legally protected children is highlighting how support for the idea that a fetus should have the same rights as a person underpins far less dramatic laws and proposals from abortion foes across the U.S. Lawmakers in at least six states have proposals to allow women to seek child support back to conception
February 24, 2024Former President Donald Trump claims his multiple criminal indictments have boosted his support among Black Americans because they see him as a victim of discrimination
February 24, 2024Technology is so pervasive and invasive that it’s polarizing people, producing feelings of love and loathing for its devices, online services and the would-be visionaries behind them
February 24, 2024Former President Donald Trump says he would “strongly support the availability of IVF" for couples who are trying to have a baby
February 23, 2024First lady Jill Biden is lamenting the partisanship that permeates Capitol Hill and politics writ large, telling governors at the White House that she wishes more lawmakers would follow their lead
February 23, 2024When the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are considered children under state law, its chief justice had a higher authority in mind
February 23, 2024Former President Donald Trump is promising to use a second term in the White House to defend Christian values and is suggesting he’ll protect the faith's central icon, warning a convention of religious broadcasters that the left wants “to tear down crosses.”
February 23, 2024Georgia lawmakers are revisiting a nearly decade-old fight over whether the state needs to protect religious rights from being trampled by state and local governments
February 23, 2024Democrats and reproductive rights groups are seizing on a ruling this week by the Alabama Supreme Court that plunges the future of access to in vitro fertilization, commonly known as IVF, into uncertainty
February 22, 2024Don’t call them nostalgic
February 22, 2024Donald Trump says he’s being politically persecuted, like Russian democracy martyr Alexei Navalny, who died while in a Russian prison on Feb. 16. A scholar says there’s no comparison between the men.
February 22, 2024Tucker Carlson’s sycophantic interview with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, and his subsequent praise for Russia’s subways, supermarkets and cheeseburgers, was not journalism. It was propaganda.
February 22, 2024Evidence from NYC shows that stop-and-frisk policing leads to greater mistrust of police and more racial disparities in the criminal justice system.
February 22, 2024An animated fetus that develops over the course of a three-minute video has become a new front in state-level abortion politics
February 22, 2024President Joe Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “crazy SOB” during a fundraiser for his reelection campaign Wednesday night
February 22, 2024Green Bay schools has released the recording of its first Black superintendent’s appearance on an Atlanta radio show where he made blunt comments about race relations, criticized the community and derided one of the district’s principals
February 21, 2024Donald Trump’s mythic ability to raise massive sums of political cash may be on a collision course with a new reality
February 21, 2024The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears skeptical of the federal government’s argument that the Environmental Protection Agency should be allowed to continue enforcing its anti-air-pollution rule in 11 states
February 21, 2024The Alabama Supreme Court recently ruled that frozen embryos can be considered children under state law
February 21, 2024Marriage on its own won’t do away with child poverty, and in fact it can create even more instability for low-income families.
February 21, 2024When Tucker Carlson asked Vladimir Putin about his reasons for invading Ukraine two years ago, Putin gave him a lecture on Russian history
February 21, 2024There have been no declarations that journalists are the “enemy of the people.”
February 21, 2024The Biden administration is wading into a contentious debate about whether the most powerful artificial intelligence systems should be “open-source” or closed
February 21, 2024A lawsuit by Black descendants of slaves that challenges zoning changes affecting their island homes is before a Georgia judge, who must decide whether to allow lawyers to amend the civil complaint to avoid having it dismissed
February 20, 2024A presidential candidate’s ‘home state advantage’ should help them win a primary, which then bodes well for how they do in successive contests. But if they lose their home state, they’re in trouble.
February 20, 2024Though the Civil Rights Act of 1964 officially ended racial discrimination in public places, relics of the Jim Crow South still haunt modern memory.
February 20, 2024The third-term president has used his experience and personal relationships with lawmakers to build the majorities that now support his agenda.
February 20, 2024Since he became a force in Republican politics, Donald Trump has figured prominently in U.S. Senate races, shaping which GOP contenders get nominated
February 20, 2024Nikki Haley is using the closing days of the South Carolina GOP primary matchup with Donald Trump to hone her argument that she is the lone remaining candidate who can unite Americans
February 19, 2024A college administrator offers insights into the rocky rollout of the Department of Education’s supposedly ‘simplified’ financial aid form.
February 19, 2024For many students, the excitement of being accepted into their first-choice college is being tempered this year by a troublesome uncertainty over whether they’ll get the financial aid they need to attend
February 19, 2024The funeral of a renowned transgender activist in a New York cathedral elicited a denunciation of the event by a senior church official, who called the mass a scandal within one of the preeminent houses of worship in U.S. Catholicism
February 19, 2024Israel has condemned Brazil’s president for comparing the war in Gaza to the Holocaust, accusing him of being antisemitic and trivializing the Nazi genocide of European Jews during World War II
February 18, 2024A Republican opponent of new U.S. funding for Ukraine has argued at an international security conference that the package stuck in Congress wouldn’t “fundamentally change the reality” on the ground and that Russia has an incentive to negotiate peace
February 18, 2024A lot people think Google searches are getting worse
February 17, 2024Many Americans believe the United States was founded as a Christian nation
February 17, 2024Large numbers of Americans believe the founders intended the U.S. to be a Christian nation
February 17, 2024Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned allies that an “artificial deficit” of weapons for his country risks giving Russia breathing space after his military chief said he was withdrawing troops from the eastern city of Avdiivka
February 17, 2024Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ testimony about her relationship with a special prosecutor in Georgia’s election interference case against former President Donald Trump was a familiar scene for many Black women
February 17, 2024A Black author says Georgia's white founding father deserves credit for inspiring the abolitionist movement that ultimately ended slavery
February 17, 2024The American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada is suing the county that includes Las Vegas over its new ban on standing or stopping while crossing pedestrian bridges on the Strip
February 16, 2024A major anti-abortion group is praising a published report that Donald Trump has privately told people he supports a national ban on abortion after 16 weeks of pregnancy — though his campaign denied the report and said Trump plans to “negotiate a deal” on abortion if elected to the White House again
February 16, 2024The U.S. Census Bureau is thinking about how to ask about sex
February 16, 2024Both men have faced criticism about what can appear to be obvious signs of aging, including questions about their memory and cognitive abilities.
February 16, 2024U_S_ women’s national team captain Lindsey Horan apologized Thursday for recent comments in which she said American soccer fans “aren’t smart” and they “don’t know the game.”
February 16, 2024Kansas City's mayor and security experts say it could be time to rethink the way teams celebrate their championships
February 15, 2024Go into many bookstores, and the nonfiction shelves will be dominated by men
February 15, 2024The colorful bubble letters have attracted praise and condemnation, with taggers seeing their work as a gift to the city, while others decry it as rampant vandalism.
February 15, 2024A federal judge has voiced concerns over a Texas law that would give police broad authority to arrest migrants on charges of illegal entry starting in March
February 15, 2024Greece's parliament is set to legalize same-sex civil marriage
February 15, 2024Special counsel Jack Smith has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to let former President Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case proceed to trial without further delay
February 14, 2024A fiery debate over public health and personal rights has gripped Puerto Rico as legislators clash with medical experts
February 14, 2024Representatives of several human rights organizations have held a press conference demanding the immediate release of a prominent attorney and activist detained last week
February 14, 2024Black History Month was celebrated in the nation's capital with dueling events on Tuesday highlighting the divide between Democrats’ and Republicans' approaches to courting Black voters in the 2024 presidential election
February 14, 2024The stigma around poverty and government benefits can make those initiatives less effective.
February 14, 2024Media coverage of vice presidential candidates tends to focus on who can help win the election rather than who is qualified to help govern once in office.
February 14, 2024Conservative politicians have launched attacks against the use of the word “woke.” If they knew the history of the word, they might stop wasting their time.
February 14, 2024The caption may say that only scientists and trained professionals should handle wild animals, but viewers remember the image, not the words.
February 14, 2024It's Valentine's Day and Jill Biden is again sending her love to Americans through an art display on the White House lawn
February 14, 2024Love is in the air
February 14, 2024Lawmakers have begun a debate on a landmark bill to legalize same-sex marriage that would make Greece the first Orthodox Christian country to do so
February 14, 2024About two-thirds of Jewish Americans felt less secure in late 2023 than they did a year earlier, according to a survey mostly conducted after the Hamas attack
February 14, 2024With its impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the House exercised its oversight power. How can you tell if it was it a legitimate use of that power?
February 14, 2024San Francisco 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan has heard the criticism that for some reason he is unable to win the big game
February 13, 2024Less than a year after Tennessee Republicans tried to expel her from the state House, Democrat Gloria Johnson is seeking another term there while simultaneously waging an uphill campaign for U.S. Senate
February 13, 2024President Joe Biden says Donald Trump’s comments calling into question the U_S_ commitment to defend its NATO allies from attack were “dangerous” and “un-American.”
February 13, 2024Abortion rights advocates are trying to get initiatives to protect reproductive health on the ballot in several states this year
February 13, 2024In 1930, economist John Maynard Keynes famously predicted that within a century, the normal workweek would decrease to 15 hours. Why was he wrong?
February 13, 2024An education expert explains the potential benefits and drawbacks of year-round schooling in Philadelphia.
February 13, 2024Nearly two-thirds of American Jews feel less secure in the U.S. than they did a year ago
February 13, 2024The CEO of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI says that the dangers that keep him awake at night regarding artificial intelligence are the “very subtle societal misalignments” that could make the systems wreck havoc
February 13, 2024Years before starting a family of her own, Stella Belia was already waging a tireless campaign for legal recognition
February 13, 2024Throngs of revelers have taken to the streets of Germany’s Carnival strongholds along with floats that satirized the Ukrainian and Russian presidents, German politicians, former U.S. President Donald Trump and many others
February 12, 2024Imprecision in election polling has long been recognized. But advance polls are still useful in recognizing trends in voter preferences, and candidates’ weak points.
February 12, 2024Words have power, and what vocabulary you have at your disposal to describe your relationships with other people can shape what directions those relationships can take.
February 12, 2024Stopping someone against their will can be false imprisonment or even kidnapping. There are laws that determine who is acting as a hero and who is acting as a vigilante.
February 12, 2024Scholars discuss aspects of protecting election integrity in the face of efforts to cast aspersions on voting results.
February 12, 2024The show has served as the nation’s laugh track for decades. Who will take over when he retires?
February 12, 2024The final results of Pakistan's parliamentary elections are out
February 12, 2024There's consensus in Virginia that the mental health care system is in need of reform, due to what Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration says is an overreliance on hospitalization at a time of growing need
February 12, 2024San Francisco's decision to take the ball first in overtime of the Super Bowl will be debated for a while
February 12, 2024Argentina’s faith and politics have come together at the Vatican
February 11, 2024Dexter Scott King, the late son of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King, was remembered Saturday as the protector of his family’s legacy and the keeper of the deam during a memorial service in Atlanta
February 11, 2024The race for the Republican nomination got personal Saturday when Donald Trump questioned the absence of Nikki Haley’s husband on the campaign trail
February 11, 2024As the world's third-largest democracy prepares for national elections on Wednesday, women and minority candidates face questions about whether voters will accept them
February 10, 2024Valentine’s Day is one of those holidays that haters love to hate
February 10, 2024Democrats have been reminded of President Joe Biden’s political shortcomings this week
February 10, 2024Historically, Asian Americans have been stereotyped as more brains than brawn or “foreigners” when it comes to sports like football
February 09, 2024An Ohio city is dropping criminal charges against a pastor over his around-the-clock ministry to the homeless and others in need of help while the two sides work to end the dispute that has landed in federal court
February 09, 2024After winning Nevada’s Republican caucuses late Thursday night, Former President Donald Trump is heading to Pennsylvania for a speech before the National Rifle Association
February 09, 2024These moving poems are a reminder that on Valentine’s Day, it’s OK to celebrate a broader definition of love.
February 09, 2024For decades, the plotline for LGBTQ+ activism in the U.S. was one of advances — often slow but moving forward
February 09, 2024How will America’s suburbs vote this year
February 09, 2024Kansas’ attorney general is telling public schools that they’re required to tell parents their children are transgender or non-binary even if they’re not out at home
February 09, 2024For months after George Floyd was killed by police in May 2020, people from around the world traveled to the site of his murder in Minneapolis and left signs, paintings and poems to memorialize the man whose death reignited a movement against systemic racism
February 09, 2024The results of Pakistan’s elections were being delayed by connectivity issues a day after the vote that was marred by sporadic violence, a mobile phone service shutdown and the sidelining of former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his party
February 09, 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin has used an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson to urge Washington to recognize Moscow’s interests and persuade Ukraine to sit down for talks
February 09, 2024A ruling by Hawaii’s high court saying that a man can be prosecuted for carrying a gun in public without a permit uses pop culture references in an apparent rebuke of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that expanded gun rights nationwide
February 08, 2024Casting directors are some of the most important creatives in Hollywood but have never been celebrated as such on Hollywood’s biggest night
February 08, 2024Silent Donor is flourishing just as the privacy debate for contributors heats up, especially for those using donor-advised funds to anonymously give to their favorite, and sometimes controversial, causes while also getting a tax break
February 08, 2024Some conservatives on cable news or on social media have speculated that Taylor Swift is part of an elaborate plot to help Democrats win the November election
February 08, 2024Think the norm is to join the workforce straight after school, work for five decades and then retire? Think again.
February 08, 2024Nikki Haley is launching a bus tour before South Carolina’s Republican presidential primary on Feb. 24
February 08, 2024Former President Donald Trump’s appeal to remain on the 2024 ballot is coming before the Supreme Court
February 08, 2024It's been 12 years since a pair of conservative writers compared a prominent climate scientist to a convicted child molester for his depiction of global warming
February 07, 2024About half of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in the U.S. believe the country is giving too much support of Israelis and not enough for Palestinians amid the ongoing war in Gaza
February 07, 2024U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is facing mounting pressure to apologize for a remark he made about transgender people, moments after he was informed that the mother of a murdered transgender teenager was in Parliament
February 07, 2024Two freelance journalists have won $100,000 prizes for work that impacts underrepresented communities
February 07, 2024Foundations and major donors are mobilizing to respond to court cases like the Supreme Court’s June decision ending affirmative action at universities
February 07, 2024You’d call the police if a stranger in public did what many bullies at work get away with. 2 researchers who study workplace violence describe the widespread phenomenon.
February 07, 2024The work remains a crowd favorite. But more and more scholars are starting to see ‘Rhapsody’ as a whitewashed version of Harlem’s vibrant Black music scene.
February 07, 2024The NFL’s embrace of the sport points to a promising future. But gender and political divides could stand in the way.
February 07, 2024Polarization invades parts of Americans’ lives that really aren’t political, dividing society more deeply. That includes decisions about whether or not they like meatloaf or chili.
February 07, 2024The title of Spain’s Eurovision song “Zorra" can be translated as an anti-female slur, and it's causing a storm among conservatives and feminists
February 07, 2024Florida’s attorney general is expected to ask the state Supreme Court to keep an abortion-rights measure off November’s ballot
February 07, 2024Two Democratic lawmakers have introduced a resolution condemning an opinion piece that called a Detroit suburb “America's jihad capital.”
February 06, 2024Carole Baskin, who became a pop culture sensation due to Netflix’s docuseries “Tiger King,” has asked the Florida Supreme Court to review an appellate court’s ruling that said she isn’t protected from a defamation lawsuit brought by a former assistant
February 06, 2024Although most Americans believe dietary supplements are safe, these products often make health claims that are unproven or downright false.
February 06, 2024Politics and the lack of compensation are among the factors that can undermine the peer review process, which is important to the quality of knowledge in academic journals.
February 06, 2024‘Winning’ in negotiations isn’t always the best approach.
February 06, 2024Catholic dogma continues to repudiate same-sex marriage and gender transition
February 06, 2024Pakistan is holding elections for a new parliament on Thursday
February 06, 2024The Supreme Court will be taking its first look in the 156-year history of the 14th Amendment at a provision, Section 3, that’s meant to keep former officeholders who “engaged in insurrection” from ever regaining power
February 06, 2024El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele has called himself the “world’s coolest dictator” or as his X profile read on election day, the “Philosopher King.”
February 05, 2024How did a musician whose songs were suffused with messages of anti-capitalism and anti-imperialism become so commercialized?
February 05, 2024Russian media and rights groups say the first publicly known cases have emerged of Russian authorities penalizing people under a court ruling that outlawed LGBTQ+ activism as extremism
February 05, 2024Students are invited to imagine how the social, political and legal landscape for cannabis will look in the future.
February 05, 2024The centrality of race to US politics is, once again, a defining feature of the current presidential campaign.
February 05, 2024The Democratic mayor of San Francisco is pushing a March 5 ballot measure that would require single adults on welfare be screened and treated for illegal drug addiction or else lose cash assistance
February 05, 2024Heavily Democratic California might appear an unlikely national battleground
February 05, 2024Dearborn, Michigan, is ramping up security after an opinion piece described the city as “America’s jihad capital.”
February 05, 2024Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley poked fun at herself over a campaign misstep over the Civil War and slavery, but her primary target during a “Saturday Night Live” appearance was Donald Trump
February 04, 2024Criticism of President Joe Biden by a far-right minister in Israel’s government has sparked outrage at a sensitive time for Israel's relations with Washington
February 04, 2024Hundreds of U.S. communities have enacted “crime-free” laws encouraging and allowing landlords to evict tenants after repeated calls to police or for emergency services
February 04, 2024With legal disputes escalating over the use of name, image and likeness compensation in the recruitment of college athletes, Hall of Fame basketball coach Rick Pitino believes it’s time for the NCAA to stand down when it comes to policing member schools
February 04, 2024The US attacks on military sites in Iraq and Syria are unlikely to further escalate conflict in the Middle East, he writes.
February 03, 2024President Joe Biden is getting his first test of the 2024 campaign during the Democrats' first presidential primary
February 03, 2024Hamas’ demand that Israel release Marwan Barghouti brings new attention to a man many Palestinians see as their Nelson Mandela
February 03, 2024The Kansas City Chiefs have built a Super Bowl-worthy defense over the past two years in part because they made the difficult decision to trade Tyreek Hill away
February 03, 2024A family with an audacious plan to build the world’s tallest flagpole as a centerpiece for a billion-dollar project honoring veterans is abandoning the idea
February 03, 2024The Supreme Court is allowing West Point to continue taking race into account in admissions, while a lawsuit over its policies continues
February 02, 2024The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ lawsuit against the Republican-controlled Legislature arguing that it is obstructing basic government functions
February 02, 2024During a campaign speech in South Carolina, President Biden made it clear that he is not only running against Donald Trump but also against white supremacy.
February 02, 2024In a pre-Grammy event, singer Mariah Carey used the Recording Academy stage to speak about fighting against conforming to certain music industry standards in an effort to create her music that would eventually appeal to the masses
February 02, 2024A poster in the southern Spanish city of Seville that depicts a young, handsome, Jesus wearing only a loincloth has unleashed a storm on social media
February 02, 2024Cyprus' president has obligated all government ministers to sign a declaration affirming a “zero-tolerance” policy on all sexist attitudes and behavior
February 02, 2024The commission has tight deadlines to finalize new maps. 2 voting rights experts explain the messy situation.
February 02, 2024With international climate talks failing to make progress fast enough, activists are shifting their emphasis to local battles − in the streets, political arenas and courtrooms.
February 02, 2024The retired judge says the judiciary doesn’t ‘do justice’ but follows the law and the facts, which doesn’t always mean a sympathetic or compassionate ending.
February 02, 2024A new poll shows half of U_S_ adults believe Israel's war in Gaza has “gone too far."
February 02, 2024Almost immediately after he walked into the Oval Office on his first day as president, Joe Biden began rolling back his predecessor’s immigration policies, which he had assailed throughout the 2020 campaign as harsh and inhumane
February 02, 2024Author Ellen Gilchrist has died at age 88
February 02, 2024One of the great interspecies love stories of our time has come to an end
February 01, 2024Nikki Haley’s messages on race are sometimes contradictory
February 01, 2024Anti-smoking groups aren’t just fighting the tobacco companies these days
February 01, 2024A passionate student letter prompted a southern Pennsylvania school district to change its Native American logo years ago
February 01, 2024The idea that the Swift-Kelce romance is some sort of deep-state plot is perhaps gaining traction in far-right circles because it lines up with the political right’s broader agenda and beliefs.
February 01, 2024More than 200 reporters, photographers and other staffers with the Chicago Tribune and six other newsrooms around the nation are on a 24-hour strike to protest years of “slow-walked” contract negotiations and to demand fair wages
February 01, 2024With growing polarization, political attitudes have begun to coincide with moral convictions. Partisans increasingly view each other as immoral. New research reveals the depth of that conviction.
February 01, 2024On the 100th anniversary of Woodrow Wilson’s death, a presidential historian looks at how he was able to stay in power despite his illnesses.
February 01, 2024Climate activist Greta Thunberg is on trial for protesting outside a major oil and gas industry conference in London last year
February 01, 2024At Fox News, the presidential primary appears over and has been for some time
February 01, 2024A Dallas pastor is the new head of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition civil rights group, stepping into the role that has been held for decades by the Rev. Jesse Jackson
February 01, 2024Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has signed a law defining antisemitism in state law
January 31, 2024Abortion-rights supporters are mounting another push to restore abortion access in Kentucky
January 31, 2024Conspiracy theories seem to be everywhere these days
January 31, 2024President Vladimir Putin has vowed to drive Ukrainian forces back to reduce the threat of attacks on Russian territory as he met with activists running his campaign ahead of the March presidential election that he’s all but certain to win
January 31, 2024It's not uncommon to believe conspiracy theories, and surveys show that many Americans believe in at least one of them
January 31, 2024Fueled by the internet, conspiracy theories are having a big moment in America
January 31, 2024Sometimes a story is more appealing than the truth
January 31, 2024Since the Salem witch trials, tales of dark plots and secret organizations have emerged time and again across the land that become the United States, and such conspiracies have influenced public opinion and even the outcome of elections
January 31, 2024The death of a protester in 2023 at the site of the proposed Atlanta Public Safety Training Center has brought renewed attention to radical environmentalism in the United States.
January 31, 2024Many people with eating disorders die from suicide. Improving perception of internal body states, or interoception, can help everyone better care for their own bodies.
January 31, 2024Social media companies have come under intense pressure to do more to protect teens, but there’s another concern – they could go too far.
January 31, 2024American men see manhood in opposition to womanhood. Danes, on the other hand, see manhood as not acting immaturely, as a boy would.
January 31, 2024Rory McIlroy continues his softening against LIV Golf
January 31, 2024For as long as trans medicine has been around, so has its opposition. The tactics of prior waves of anti-trans policies are still in play today.
January 30, 2024A second Trump presidency may be a danger to democracy, but that’s more to do with the Republican Party than Trump himself, researchers of authoritarianism explain.
January 30, 2024At the turn of the 20th century, Southern sympathizers started building monuments to Confederate leaders. Black newspaper editors saw these emblems clearly for what they stood for – a lost cause.
January 30, 2024The latest annual Corruption Perceptions Index says efforts to fight public sector corruption are faltering and blames in part a “global decline in justice and the rule of law since 2016.”
January 30, 2024The Republican National Committee is meeting behind closed doors in Las Vegas this week, but top party officials will no longer consider a resolution proposed to declare former President Donald Trump the presumptive Republican nominee
January 30, 2024Retired conservative federal judge urges Supreme Court to disqualify Trump from office
January 29, 2024A school's diversity, equity and inclusion coordinator in Maine has left the state for fear of his family's safety after receiving a threatening, hateful letter from a white supremacist
January 29, 2024Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado says the court ruling blocking her presidential candidacy represents “judicial criminality
January 29, 2024There’s no doubt which wins in the club vs
January 29, 2024Mass arrests and the suspension of constitutional rights have been a feature of President Nayib Bukele’s tenure. A fresh mandate from voters will likely entrench his hardline approach.
January 29, 2024Turns out ‘A’ didn’t have to be the first letter in the alphabet, nor ‘Z’ the last.
January 29, 2024Poland has protested a mistake in a social media post by the head of the European Commission that wrongly suggested the World War II Auschwitz death camp was Polish
January 28, 2024A majority of U.S. taxpayers feel they pay too much in taxes, with many saying that they receive a poor value in return
January 28, 2024Black voters support the reelection of President Joe Biden at a surprisingly low level, according to recent AP polling
January 28, 2024A white officer in suburban Detroit lied to a Black pedestrian by identifying an officer from another force as his supervisor during a 2021 police stop
January 28, 2024Former President Donald Trump has praised Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for defying the Biden administration over immigration
January 28, 2024Jews and Muslims from Bosnia and abroad gathered in Srebrenica to jointly observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day and promote compassion and dialogue amid rising global sectarian hatred fueled by Israel’s war in Gaza
January 27, 2024Holocaust survivor Gad Partok never thought he'd live to see horrors like the ones he witnessed as a young boy in Tunisia when Nazis invaded his town and killed many of his neighbors
January 27, 2024Voters in Taiwan recently repelled a wave of disinformation seeking to undermine their democracy ahead of this month's recent election
January 27, 2024A military panel at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has recommended 23 years in detention for two Malaysian men in connection with a deadly 2002 bombings in Bali
January 26, 2024President Joe Biden’s campaign manager has traveled to Michigan, where many Arab American leaders are enraged over the administration’s policy toward Israel, and found some top activists unwilling to meet
January 26, 2024Lawyers seeking to keep Donald Trump off the ballot are urging the Supreme Court to declare he's ineligible to be president again because he spearheaded the U.S. Capitol attack in an effort to overturn his 2020 election loss
January 26, 2024The National Football League has urged teams for years to hire more minority head coaches
January 26, 2024Humanoid robots tend to be white or resemble white people. Here’s why this is a problem and what social scientists, designers and engineers can do about it.
January 26, 2024In a year when the Supreme Court deals with many high-profile cases, a professor who teaches law to undergraduates describes how to read the court’s opinions.
January 25, 2024Hall of Famers Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova are calling on the women’s tennis tour to stay out of Saudi Arabia
January 25, 2024The fragility of peace settlements in the Balkans provides a cautionary tale. US and EU policymakers may inadvertently make matters worse by acceding to the aggressor’s territorial ambitions.
January 25, 2024Your data privacy is under threat from hackers, data brokers and big tech. Here’s what you can do about it. Step 1 is to get your colleagues, friends and family on board.
January 25, 2024Antisemitism is on the rise in Belgium since the Hamas attack against Israel that triggered a war in Gaza
January 25, 2024Former President Donald Trump could return to a New York courtroom this week to defend himself against a lawsuit seeking more than $10 million for things he said about advice columnist E
January 25, 2024President Joe Biden is zeroing in on an expected rematch against Donald Trump after this week’s New Hampshire primaries
January 25, 2024In the age-old battle of man versus nature, nature usually wins
January 25, 2024Seattle has agreed to pay $10 million to 50 demonstrators who sued over the police department's heavy-handed response to racial justice protests in 2020
January 25, 2024Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will call on lawmakers to pass increased investments in education in an attempt to save residents money in her sixth State of the State address Wednesday night
January 25, 2024When the Academy Awards passed over Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie for best director and best actress for “Barbie,” many saw some the patriarchy of their film at work
January 24, 2024President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden have extended an invitation to attend the president’s State of the Union address to a Texas woman who sued her state and lost over the ability to get an abortion to end a wanted pregnancy
January 24, 2024Nikki Haley is trying to frame her Iowa and New Hampshire losses to Donald Trump as a victory
January 24, 2024USA Basketball says it wants the best for Draymond Green, which is why the federation does not have him in its plans for the Paris Olympics
January 24, 2024The United Nations’ top court says it will issue a decision Friday on South Africa’s request for interim orders in a genocide case against Israel, including that Israel halt its offensive in Gaza
January 24, 2024The Republican primary campaign has barely begun
January 24, 2024In the wake of US attacks against Houthi militants in Yemen, a scholar of presidential power to use the military examines the history and present of the laws around US military action.
January 24, 2024Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei believes it his job to be “incorrect.”
January 24, 2024President Joe Biden has won the New Hampshire Democratic primary as a write-in candidate
January 24, 2024Billionaire businessman-environmentalist Tom Steyer has a book out this spring that combines personal and professional stories with a message on how to battle climate change
January 24, 2024Patrick Kearon, the newest member of the body that governs The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has said he would like see the faith better care for sex abuse victims
January 23, 2024The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter says her late brother was a fierce and visionary steward of their father’s legacy
January 23, 2024A Canadian judge has ruled that the government’s use of the Emergencies Act to quell weeks of protests by truckers and others angry over COVID-19 restrictions in 2022 was unreasonable and unconstitutional
January 23, 2024New Oscar nominees are reacting to the news with glee, pride and humility
January 23, 2024A Christian pastor says his small Ohio city would lose a beacon of light downtown if he has to close an around-the-clock ministry for homeless people and others seeking shelter
January 23, 2024Even in a moment of extreme partisanship, ‘we’ still exist if ‘we’ can witness something together. Researchers are exploring how shared attention can build connection.
January 23, 2024The whitewashing of former Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and his crimes is crucial for understanding Russian President Vladimir Putin’s imperialist ideology and goals.
January 23, 2024President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have joined forces at a rally in Virginia as they push for abortion rights
January 23, 2024There's action on abortion policy in rulings, legislatures, and campaigns for candidates and ballot measures on the 51st anniversary of Roe v. Wade
January 22, 2024Dexter Scott King, the younger son of the late civil rights leader Dr.
January 22, 2024The Supreme Court will hear an appeal from Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip, who has steadfastly maintained his innocence and averted multiple attempts by the state to execute him
January 22, 2024A New Hampshire election and politics expert agrees that independent voters are important in the state’s primary − but they shouldn’t be misconstrued with people who are registered as undeclared.
January 22, 2024A court long known for its landmark decisions expanding civil rights is now known for highly conservative rulings reining in government power.
January 22, 2024People may be surprised when they read a nutrition label on a bottle of wine. The industry should take note.
January 22, 2024Vice presidential candidates typically aren’t tapped until after a candidate has locked down the nomination
January 22, 2024Donald Trump is setting aside months of criticism and mockery of Ron DeSantis after the Florida governor dropped out of the presidential race
January 22, 2024The Biden campaign is betting big on abortion rights as a major driver in this year's presidential election
January 21, 2024AC Milan goalkeeper Mike Maignan says too many people are “complicit” in allowing racism to continue blighting soccer and urges authorities to take stronger action after he suffered racist abuse on Saturday night
January 21, 2024A French court has convicted three police officers of “voluntary violence” towards a youth worker in a Paris suburb who suffered serious injuries to his rectum after being assaulted with a police baton during an identity check seven years ago
January 20, 2024Ohio's proposals for gender-affirming care could leave thousands of transgender adults scrambling to find medical providers who would be able to offer hormones and other services they rely on
January 20, 2024The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says an Oklahoma hospital did not violate federal law after doctors told a woman with a nonviable pregnancy to wait in the parking lot until her condition worsened enough to qualify for an abortion
January 19, 2024With many players NFL eligible and others following unhappy starting quarterback Kyle McCord into the transfer portal, Ohio State football looked to be in for an unhappy winter
January 19, 2024Apologies can easily go awry if they’re not made in a certain way.
January 19, 2024Thousands of opponents of abortion rights went marching in Washington after speakers urged the impassioned crowd to capitalize on the movement’s major victory in the Supreme Court and keep fighting until abortion is eliminated
January 19, 2024President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are highlighting the battle over abortion rights
January 18, 2024Nikki Haley is the latest American female politician to shift her language, depending on whom she is talking to and where. But this tactic has a flip side, prompting criticism of her as inconsistent.
January 18, 2024A professor of nonprofit law explains why drafting any restrictions on charities requires proceeding with great care.
January 18, 2024A proposal to remove William Penn’s statue from a Philadelphia park was pulled after public outcry. Penn’s biographer says his Quaker religion may well have disapproved of such a statue.
January 18, 2024A year ago, anti-abortion activists from across the U.S. gathered for their annual March for Life with reason to celebrate
January 18, 2024Missouri activists are throwing support behind a constitutional amendment to restore abortion rights while also allowing the procedure to be restricted in later stages of pregnancy
January 18, 2024As artificial intelligence's impact on society receives more scrutiny, a Franciscan friar who preaches a message of ethics in technology has gained some powerful listeners
January 18, 2024Vice President Kamala Harris says she's “scared as heck” about the possibility of Donald Trump winning another term
January 17, 2024Ava DuVernay’s “Origin” takes a heavyweight work of historical and sociological inquiry and transforms it into a deeply humanistic drama and globe-trotting detective story
January 17, 2024Wisconsin’s powerful Republican Assembly leader says he hopes the liberal-controlled state Supreme Court adopts new constitutional legislative boundary maps, even as he slammed proposals from Democrats as “a political gerrymander” and threatened an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court
January 16, 2024From the ‘static’ polls to Trump’s ‘dissing’ of voters, two political scientists look at the Iowa caucus and see more than just the fact that Trump won it, resoundingly.
January 16, 2024Too often, signs of trouble are ignored until a problem becomes a crisis. Here are some clear warning signs residents should watch for.
January 16, 2024Vice President Kamala Harris' husband is taking his advocacy against antisemitism, Islamophobia and other forms of hate to the Swiss Alps
January 16, 2024Donald Trump cultivated a deep network of support in Iowa over his three presidential runs and that showed in the leadoff caucuses
January 15, 2024Communities across the nation have been celebrating the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday with acts of service, prayer services and parades
January 15, 2024Monday marks the official start to the Republican presidential nominating contest with the Iowa caucuses
January 14, 2024The U.S. military isn't immune to the country’s deep political polarization and the service academies are trying to update how they teach future officers to navigate that divide
January 14, 2024President Joe Biden can make an increasingly strong case that he’s helped fix inflation, if only he can get voters to believe him
January 13, 2024Iowa's brutal winter weather is making an unrepresentative process even less representative
January 13, 2024Every morning, before she’s even out of her pajamas, Rachel Goldberg-Polin tears a piece of masking tape off the roll, grabs a pen and writes the number of days her son has been held hostage in Gaza
January 13, 2024As communities across the U.S. celebrate the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday this weekend, some people are taking a cue from the civil rights icon’s history of protest amid the war in Gaza and the looming presidential election
January 13, 2024The expansive version of free speech long accepted in American society is facing more forceful competition than it has seen in a century
January 13, 2024President Joe Biden is trying his hand at retail politics
January 12, 2024Spain forward Jenni Hermoso has led the fight against sexism in Spanish soccer after finding herself in the global spotlight when she was kissed on the lips by former federation president Luis Rubiales without her consent after the Women's World Cup final
January 12, 2024President Joe Biden says it was a lapse in judgment for Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin not to tell him about his hospitalization last week, but he still has confidence in the Pentagon chief
January 12, 2024Social media users shared a range of false claims this week
January 12, 2024Biden and Trump are polar opposites when it comes to policy. But they have wielded the power of the presidency in similar ways.
January 12, 2024A Black woman hired by a northern Utah school district to investigate racial harassment complaints says that she also experienced discrimination from district officials
January 12, 2024Hundreds of people have attended a ceremony honoring the memory of renowned Ukrainian poet Maksym Kryvtsov, who was killed in action while serving as a soldier in the war Russia started in Ukraine nearly two years ago
January 11, 2024In the greatest rebuke yet to Pope Francis, the Catholic bishops of Africa and Madagascar have issued a unified statement refusing to follow his declaration allowing priests to offer blessings to same-sex couples
January 11, 2024Some of the Native Americans the National Park Service was supposed to consult with say moving a statue of Pennsylvania's founder William Penn from a Philadelphia historic site isn't a priority for them
January 11, 2024Why do so many Americans share the concern that success and integrity are in conflict, as if one comes at the expense of the other?
January 11, 2024Post-pandemic burnout is at worrying levels among Christian clergy in the U.S. It has prompted many to think about abandoning their jobs
January 11, 2024Only two Republicans were facing off at the GOP's fifth presidential debate stage — former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis
January 11, 2024A Democratic Florida prosecutor suspended by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis will get another chance to show his political advocacy was protected by the First Amendment and could not be the basis for his removal
January 10, 2024Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. knew the political consequences of speaking out against the Vietnam War − and he did it anyway.
January 10, 2024Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis in recent weeks is coming off to many would-be supporters in Iowa as looser and more personable than the strident and sometimes dour presence he was before
January 10, 2024Just two Republican presidential candidates, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, will meet on the debate stage Wednesday night
January 10, 2024Ron DeSantis says that nominating Donald Trump would make the 2024 election about his legal troubles rather than the nation’s ills under President Joe Biden
January 10, 2024The fifth Republican presidential debate of the 2024 election season will also be its first head-to-head matchup
January 09, 2024Michigan heads into an uncertain future after winning its first national championship in 26 years
January 09, 2024A man who was targeted by right-wing conspiracy theories about the U.S. Capitol insurrection has been sentenced to a year of probation for his role in it and says he never should’ve believed the lies about a stolen election
January 09, 2024Researchers examined the emotional content of nearly 300 Super Bowl ads that aired from 2018 to 2022.
January 09, 2024Less hype and more health care, please.
January 09, 2024Former President Donald Trump says a president “has to have immunity.”
January 09, 2024As Taiwan’s presidential election approaches, many immigrants from Hong Kong are supporting the governing Democratic Progressive Party after witnessing the alarming erosion of civil liberties at home
January 09, 2024Author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates is teaming up with two nonprofits to launch a new fund that will make awards to champions of sexual violence prevention and that will support education and healing programs, predominantly for Black women and girls, with plans to raise $10 million over the next two years
January 08, 2024The former president has raised several legal arguments that do not yet have clear answers. A constitutional scholar says they’re questions worth asking.
January 08, 2024The European Union’s top official for migration says member states will have to confront tough policy challenges to cope with the continent’s aging population
January 08, 2024At a Black church, President Joe Biden says white supremacy is a “poison” and has no place in America
January 08, 2024Pope Francis is calling for a universal ban on what he calls the “despicable” practice of surrogate motherhood
January 08, 2024India’s top court has restored life prison sentences for 11 Hindu men who raped a Muslim woman during deadly religious rioting two decades ago
January 08, 2024Reaction among Catholics around the world is sharply divided over the Vatican's recent declaration giving priests more leeway to bless same-sex couples
January 07, 2024The US Supreme Court faces a case with huge repercussions for the 2024 presidential election – and American democracy. An election law scholar explains why.
January 06, 2024The rivalry between GOP presidential candidates Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley has become a leading storyline before the leadoff Iowa caucuses on Jan. 15
January 06, 2024The Supreme Court is allowing Idaho to enforce its strict abortion ban, even in medical emergencies, while a legal fight continues
January 05, 2024Social media allows a political leader to direct the behavior of political movements, including engaging in violence and insurrection.
January 05, 2024As the nation approaches the 70-year anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education, an education professor lays out the state of school segregation in America.
January 05, 2024A legal scholar argues that assigning a designated contrarian and rotating this role over time will help nonprofit boards resist the dangerous pull toward passivity and deference.
January 05, 2024The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter says the world urgently needs to study and adopt her father’s philosophy of nonviolence to avoid self-destruction
January 04, 2024A Connecticut woman who pushed for expanded access to Vermont’s law that allows people who are terminally ill to end their lives has died in Vermont
January 04, 2024What might appear to be common values about shared political and cultural identities can at times serve not as a bridge joining people together but a wedge driving them apart.
January 04, 2024The race for the White House officially begins in less than two weeks
January 04, 2024Pundits are everywhere, giving their analyses of current events, politics and the state of the world. You’ll hear a lot more from them this election year. Is their rank opinion good for democracy?
January 04, 2024The COVID-19 pandemic put a spotlight on how fragmented medical care can be. Relational, or person-centered, medicine is attempting to provide solutions.
January 04, 2024A law scholar examines a pair of Supreme Court cases that pit the public’s free speech rights against politicians’ rights.
January 04, 2024A Department of Education policy adviser has resigned to protest the administration’s military support of Israel’s war in Gaza, as well as its handling of fallout from the war at home and abroad
January 03, 2024Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis is criticizing House Republicans on the campaign trail, lamenting to a crowd in southwestern Iowa that he has “not noticed much of a difference” since they edged into the majority after the 2022 midterm elections
January 03, 2024Most of us struggle with making those New Year’s resolutions stick
January 03, 2024Accusations of plagiarism have ruined the careers of academics and undergraduates alike
January 03, 2024An appeals court says Michael Cohen can't hold ex-president Donald Trump, his former boss, liable because he was jailed for what he claimed was retaliation for writing a tell-all memoir
January 02, 2024Israel’s highest court has struck down the government’s law limiting its power. Three scholars look at why the law was proposed, what it aimed to do and who supported – and opposed – it.
January 02, 2024Harvard University President Claudine Gay has resigned amid plagiarism accusations and criticism over testimony at a congressional hearing where she was unable to say unequivocally that calls on campus for the genocide of Jews would violate the school’s conduct policy
January 02, 2024The Dominican Republic is one of four Latin American countries criminalizing abortion without exceptions
January 02, 2024In this time of war overseas, more Americans think foreign policy should be a top U.S. priority for 2024
January 01, 2024Sen. John Fetterman acknowledges having “dark conversations” about harming himself before he hit “the emergency brake” and sought treatment for depression
December 31, 2023Over the past three years, the world’s oldest democracy has been tested in ways not seen in decades
December 31, 2023The New Year is almost upon us
December 30, 2023The tradition of Watch Night services in the United States dates back to Dec. 31, 1862, during the Civil War
December 30, 2023Activists who engage with voters of color are finding lackluster enthusiasm after disappointments on some issues such as voting rights and student loan forgiveness during President Joe Biden's term
December 30, 2023For Texas receiver Adonai Mitchell, there’s no mystery surrounding the College Football Playoff
December 29, 2023African scientists warn that discrimination against gay and bisexual men on the continent could make an mpox outbreak in Congo worse
December 28, 2023Donald Trump is facing criticism for repeatedly harnessing rhetoric once used by Adolf Hitler to argue that immigrants entering the U_S_ illegally are “poisoning the blood of our country."
December 27, 2023Experts are warning that the spread of misinformation could get worse in the coming presidential election contest
December 26, 2023Christmas is over, but giving season for nonprofits is just starting to peak
December 26, 2023More than 50 French performers, writers and producers published an essay Tuesday defending film star and national icon Gerard Depardieu amid growing scrutiny of his behavior toward women
December 26, 2023Britain is one of the world’s oldest democracies, but some worry that essential rights and freedoms are under threat
December 26, 2023Britain is one of the world’s oldest democracies, but some worry that essential rights and freedoms are under threat
December 26, 2023Liverpool soccer star Mohamed Salah says he “shares the pain” of grieving families at Christmas amid the Israel-Hamas war
December 25, 2023Pope Francis is denouncing the weapons industry in his Christmas Day appeal for peace in the world and in particular between Israel and the Palestinians
December 25, 2023King Charles III has reflected his coronation theme of public service y in a Christmas message that he connected to the health of the planet and wars that are raging
December 25, 2023Independent candidates rarely succeed in U.S. politics, if they can make the ballot at all
December 25, 2023Pope Francis in a Christmas Eve homily said that “the clash of arms even today” prevents Jesus “from finding room in the world."
December 24, 2023Donald Trump's lawyers are telling a federal appeals court that he was acting within his role as president when he pressed claims about “alleged fraud and irregularity” in the 2020 election
December 24, 2023A Nevada tribe is gearing up for a different kind of fight against the U.S. government as it tries to build more public support for protecting Native American sacred sites
December 24, 2023The Vatican next year will publish a collection of never-before-seen homilies delivered by the late Pope Benedict XVI
December 23, 2023President Joe Biden joined first lady Jill Biden, for a Christmas season visit to Children’s National Hospital in Washington to meet with patients and their families
December 22, 2023Former President Donald Trump says he is eager to debate President Joe Biden, even if the debates are sponsored by the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates
December 22, 2023Some Catholic bishops say they will not follow the Vatican’s new direction on allowing blessings for same-sex couples
December 22, 2023An influential policing think tank is pushing law enforcement agencies to change how they handle body camera footage after police shootings
December 22, 2023This Congress started with showy bluster, a bitter 15-round, multi-day spectacle to elect a House speaker who vowed to “never quit,” and then did just that
December 22, 2023Attorneys for a woman who was denied emergency contraception in 2019 told the Minnesota Court of Appeals the pharmacist who refused to fill the prescription discriminated against her on the basis of her sex
December 22, 2023The Supreme Court is being thrust into the middle of two cases carrying enormous political and legal implications just weeks before the first votes in in the Iowa caucuses
December 21, 2023Women’s rights activists are criticizing French President Emmanuel Macron for appearing to side with actor Gérard Depardieu by saying the film star who is facing sexual misconduct allegations “makes France proud.”
December 21, 2023Life is full of hidden bottlenecks that result from logistical trade-offs between efficiency and your unique needs and desires. AI promises to change this taken-for-granted equation.
December 21, 2023French President Emmanuel Macron says the giant opening ceremony extravaganza that Paris is planning to hold on the River Seine to launch next year’s Olympic Games could be moved if France is hit again in the run-up by extremist attacks
December 21, 2023Pope Francis has urged Vatican bureaucrats to avoid “rigid ideological positions” that prevent them from understanding today’s reality
December 21, 2023Dozens of opposition lawmakers suspended from Parliament by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government for obstructing proceedings have held a protest accusing the government of throttling democracy in the country
December 21, 2023A romance that united sports and music fans, a celestial wonder that drew millions of eyes skyward and a spiritual homecoming for some Native American tribes were just some of the moments that inspired us and brought joy in 2023
December 21, 2023Hundreds of migrants and other people have turned out for a vigil held for a 5-year-old migrant boy who died after becoming ill in a Chicago shelter
December 21, 2023A historian and legal scholar of a key part of the US Constitution explains what happens now that the Colorado Supreme Court has ruled Trump cannot be on the state’s presidential ballots.
December 21, 2023A federal judge will consider arguments over racial discrimination, public safety and local democracy as he decides whether to block appointments to a state-run court set to be created on Jan. 1 in part of Mississippi’s majority-Black capital city
December 20, 2023An Ohio prosecutor says it's not within his power to drop a criminal charge against a woman who miscarried at her home, regardless of the pressure that national attention is bringing to her case
December 20, 2023President Joe Biden says it's “self-evident" that Donald Trump is an insurrectionist but demurs on whether he should be barred from the ballot in next year's election
December 20, 2023Former President Donald Trump's bid to win back the White House is now endangered by two sentences added to the U.S. Constitution 155 years ago
December 20, 2023Threats from disappointed donors over the language used during campus protests about the Israel-Hamas conflict have become angrier and more public than in the past.
December 20, 2023The UN climate conference brought some progress. A former UN official who has been involved in international climate policy for years explains what has to happen now for that progress to pay off.
December 20, 2023The Constitution makes clear that a president who was impeached and convicted can still be prosecuted − but what about one who is acquitted in two impeachment trials?
December 20, 2023It's clear when states ban abortion
December 20, 2023How far can a state go to keep migrants out of the U.S.
December 20, 2023Former President Donald Trump is defending his comments about migrants crossing the southern border, who he had said are poisoning the blood of America
December 20, 2023A divided Colorado Supreme Court is removing former President Donald Trump from the state’s primary ballot, saying in a historic ruling that he is ineligible to be president after his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol
December 19, 2023St. Louis political leaders and people connected to a shuttered nursing home are calling for accountability after the facility's sudden, unannounced closure
December 19, 2023Kentucky's governor says Republican Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant language is dangerous and dehumanizing
December 19, 2023There are lots of ideas about how to save local news. One of them is that increasing coverage of local politics will bring back readers and viewers. Research shows that it doesn’t.
December 19, 2023Serbia’s ruling populists are insisting that weekend snap elections were free and fair, but international observers have noted multiple irregularities
December 19, 2023A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order barring removal of a memorial to Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery
December 18, 2023Robert Caro is still busy working on the presumed last volume of his series on Lyndon Johnson
December 18, 2023A collaboration between The Associated Press and CNHI News has found it’s getting harder for the public to access information at the local government level in many states, including among school districts, townships and county boards
December 18, 2023North Dakota would become the first state to require hand-counting of all election ballots if voters back a proposed ballot measure
December 17, 2023A growing number of Black Americans see the struggle of Palestinians reflected in their own struggles for racial equality and civil rights
December 17, 2023A Confederate memorial's days at Arlington National Cemetery are numbered
December 16, 2023In Mexico, activists from Catholics for the Right to Decide are helping women reconcile their faith and abortion rights
December 16, 2023Suburbs in South Florida that have swung toward Donald Trump are where the “Obamacare” health care program is more popular than anywhere else in the country
December 16, 2023So much for the women-and-children-first rule of rescues in crisis
December 16, 2023The U.S. ambassador to China says the relationship between the two countries will be defined by strategic competition in the coming decades but most involve engagement when interests align
December 15, 2023Social media is designed to keep you engaged by getting a rise out of you, not help you think critically or take effective action on political issues.
December 15, 2023Bill Maher has had a few second thoughts, or at least some variations on the first ones
December 15, 2023In a politically polarized nation, Americans seem to agree on one issue underlying the 2024 elections — a worry over the state of democracy and how the outcome of the presidential contest will affect its future
December 15, 2023College basketball programs with athletes who have transferred two or more times previously are consulting their legal teams about whether to let them play
December 14, 2023Abortion clinics in Ohio are pushing for a court to strike down abortion restrictions now that voters have enshrined abortion rights into the state Constitution
December 14, 2023Lawyers for the city of Atlanta are asking an appeals court to overturn a ruling that let nonresidents collect signatures in the “Stop Cop City” effort to force a referendum on a police and fire training center
December 14, 2023The Supreme Court has declined to put on hold a new Illinois law that would ban high-power semiautomatic weapons like the one used in the mass killing of seven people at a 2022 parade in a Chicago suburb
December 14, 2023Faith and education leaders are denouncing plans for an After School Satan Club at a Tennessee elementary school
December 14, 2023A scholar of the Islamic State group says Hamas has undergone a radical ISIS-inspired transformation that has not yet gotten widespread public attention.
December 14, 2023Though progressive politics at the turn of the 20th century called for the protection of America’s national parks, it did so for the enjoyment of white people.
December 14, 2023Pope Francis is calling for an international treaty to ensure artificial intelligence is developed and used ethically
December 14, 2023A U.N. report says Taliban officials are sending Afghan women to prison to protect them from gender-based violence
December 14, 2023A federal judge says she will decide by Friday whether to temporarily halt the impending reintroduction of gray wolves to Colorado under a voter-approved initiative
December 14, 2023Relatively few Americans are excited about a potential rematch of the 2020 election between President Joe Biden and Donald Trump
December 14, 2023Attorneys for both sides in a challenge to Wyoming abortion restrictions that include the nation’s first explicit ban on medication to end pregnancy have urged a judge to uphold or strike down the new laws without holding a trial
December 14, 2023A weeklong sit-in at Haverford College has ended under threat of disciplinary action as U.S. college campuses continue to be roiled by tensions over the Israel-Hamas war
December 13, 2023A Florida mother tearfully testified that her family could be torn apart if the state's ban on trans health care for children is allowed to take effect
December 13, 2023Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis have called for “compassion” in the case of a woman whose health deteriorated as she unsuccessfully sought an abortion in Texas, but they stopped short of criticizing the state’s law
December 13, 2023An independent review of Starbucks' labor relations concluded that Starbucks should better communicate its commitment to workers’ collective bargaining rights and train its employees to respect those rights
December 13, 2023Shoplifting has been hyped as a driver of chain-store closures, but did these companies ever really understand urban environments in the first place?
December 13, 2023A wartime opinion poll among Palestinians shows a rise in support for Hamas, which appears to have ticked up even in the devastated Gaza Strip
December 13, 2023Regulations are a double-edged sword
December 13, 2023The New Mexico Supreme Court is weighing whether to strike down local abortion bans and restrictions by conservative cities and counties at the request of the state attorney general
December 13, 2023President Joe Biden's pledge to restore American credibility around the globe is at risk during the congressional debate over support for Ukraine
December 13, 2023About 7 in 10 Asian American and Pacific Islanders in the United States believe the country is headed in the wrong direction and only about 1 in 10 believe democracy is working extremely or very well
December 13, 2023Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says Donald Trump “flip-flipped” on abortion, overreached in response to COVID-19 and failed to uphold his campaign pledge to get Mexico to pay for a wall on the southern U.S. border
December 13, 2023Over five hours at a congressional hearing, lawmakers pressed the presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and MIT on the topic of antisemitism
December 12, 2023Teen usage of social media hasn’t dropped much, despite rising concerns about its effects on the mental health of adolescents
December 12, 2023Israel’s decision to mobilize hundreds of thousands of reserve soldiers was not just an act of self-defense, a scholar writes, but a political move as well.
December 12, 2023Presents are about giving, receiving and reciprocating, and how this cycle strengthens relationships.
December 12, 2023Attorneys for Gov. Ron DeSantis are asking a federal judge to dismiss a free speech lawsuit filed by Disney after the Florida governor took over Walt Disney World’s governing district in retaliation for the company opposing the state’s so-called don’t say gay law
December 12, 2023Starting well before dawn Sunday, hundreds gathered on the grounds of St. Ann Mission in the Florida farmland to bring flowers, candles and petitions to Our Lady of Guadalupe
December 12, 2023Harvard President Claudine Gay will remain leader of the prestigious Ivy League school following her comments last week at a congressional hearing on antisemitism
December 12, 2023A Black man who was shocked, beaten and hogtied face down on a sidewalk pleaded for breath during his arrest in Washington state and the three police officers charged in his death did not respond to his pleas, a prosecutor told the jury in closing arguments Monday
December 12, 2023University codes of conduct support their mission to educate. But it’s not easy to balance those codes with the values of free speech, as the resignation of a prominent university president shows.
December 11, 2023The Supreme Court has refused to take up a case about whether state and local governments can enforce laws banning conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ children
December 11, 2023Giving a pet as a surprise gift at the holidays isn’t generally recommended
December 11, 2023Leaving out the history of Napoléon’s brutal subjugation of Haiti is akin to making a movie about Hitler without mentioning the Holocaust.
December 11, 2023President Joe Biden goes into next year’s election with a vexing challenge: Just as the U.S. economy is getting stronger, people are still feeling horrible about it
December 11, 2023Jonathan Glazer’s chilling Auschwitz-set drama, “The Zone of Interest,” has been named best movie of the year by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association
December 11, 2023Students, lawmakers and religious leaders have joined forces at a temple in Philadelphia to strongly denounce antisemitism on college campuses and in their communities
December 10, 2023For President Joe Biden, a centerpiece of his reelection campaign is trying to negatively define Donald Trump in the public's eye
December 10, 2023President Vladimir Putin is likely to win another six-year term easily in an election expected in March, using his sweeping grip on Russia’s political scene to extend his tenure of over two decades in power
December 10, 2023Rights groups say Beijing’s crackdown on dissent is becoming increasingly harsh, both within China and beyond
December 10, 2023NBA Commissioner Adam Silver seemed more than satisfied by the way the inaugural In-Season Tournament went this season, though noted that it’s only natural to expect some tweaks to the format before next year
December 10, 2023University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill has resigned amid pressure from donors and criticism over testimony at a congressional hearing where she was unable to say under repeated questioning that calls on campus for the genocide of Jews would violate the school’s conduct policy
December 09, 2023The Texas Supreme Court has put on hold a judge’s ruling that approved an abortion for a pregnant woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis
December 09, 2023Many women, young people and Indigenous voices say they feel they’re relegated to mere attendance, with limited opportunities to contribute substantially to the decisive meetings, despite promises to make the talks more inclusive
December 09, 2023A trio of Republican presidential candidates shared stories of family and faith before hundreds of voters in northwest Iowa
December 09, 2023The Texas Supreme Court has put on hold a judge’s ruling that approved an abortion for a pregnant woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis
December 09, 2023This year’s Heisman Trophy ceremony is an ode to the new era of college sports, transformed by the transfer portal and NIL
December 08, 2023LGBTQ+ activists in Minnesota want prosecutors to treat the killing of a trans woman in Minneapolis as a hate crime, and they want lawmakers to strengthen legal safeguards to protect a community that’s disproportionately the target of violence
December 08, 2023Obstacles to obtaining an abortion are more common since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022
December 08, 2023NCAA President Charlie Baker’s call for sweeping changes in compensating athletes comes with the organization facing a series of high-profile lawsuits
December 08, 2023Massachusetts’ attorney general has filed a lawsuit accusing a white nationalist group of civil rights violations, saying it repeatedly subjected LGBTQ+ events and facilities sheltering migrant families to intimidation and harassment
December 08, 2023Kevin McCarthy, the only speaker of the House to be ousted, has quit Congress. The ancient Greeks and Romans, as well as Shakespeare, understood the price of ambition like McCarthy’s: humiliation.
December 08, 2023Harvard University’s president apologized as pressure mounted for the University of Pennsylvania’s president to resign over their testimony at a congressional hearing on antisemitism
December 08, 2023It’s important to identify the root causes of your stress and to find the coping mechanisms that work best for you.
December 08, 2023Do you dread delivering or receiving feedback at work? Two organizational behavior experts describe a better way to have these difficult conversations.
December 08, 2023Prince Harry lost a preliminary round in his libel case against against the publisher of the Daily Mail tabloid over an article that said he tried to hide his efforts to retain publicly funded protection in the U.K. after walking away from his role as a working member of the royal family
December 08, 2023A federal judge is prohibiting the separation of families at the border for purposes of deterring immigration for eight years
December 08, 2023The U.S. Census Bureau wants to change how it asks people about disabilities, and some advocates don't like where things are heading
December 08, 2023Donald Trump's assertion that he would only be a dictator on “day one” of a second term comes as he is facing growing scrutiny over his increasingly authoritarian and violent rhetoric
December 08, 2023Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, says American Jews are “feeling alone” and “in pain” as he denounces rising antisemitism in the U.S. and abroad, particularly amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war
December 07, 2023Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed to exchange prisoners of war and work toward signing a peace treaty in what the European Union is hailing as a major step toward peace in the long-troubled region
December 07, 2023Ivy League presidents are facing backlash over their remarks to on-campus antisemitism
December 07, 2023The United States strongly supports Israel in its war against Hamas, but is increasingly at odds with its Middle East ally over what will happen to the Gaza Strip once the war winds down
December 07, 2023Recent media coverage mostly confirms the role of faulty threat assessments, Hamas’ improved operational security, and confirmation bias.
December 07, 2023By disguising her name, Alcott could publish in less prestigious venues without worrying about tarnishing her literary reputation.
December 07, 2023Disinformation campaigns often use a set of rhetorical devices that you can learn to spot, like conspiracy narratives, good versus evil framing, and revealed secrets.
December 07, 2023It’s down to two candidates in the race to lead the nation’s fourth-largest city
December 07, 2023Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Agnes Chow says she still feels under the watch of the Chinese territory’s police after moving to Toronto
December 07, 2023A Texas judge has given a pregnant woman whose fetus had a fatal diagnosis permission to get an abortion in an unprecedented challenge to the state’s ban that took effect after Roe v. Wade was overturned last year
December 07, 2023A day after NCAA President Charlie Baker made an aggressive and potentially groundbreaking pitch to allow some schools to pay their athletes, his proposal was met with praise, caution and questions from around college sports
December 06, 2023It’s hard to overestimate the role Henry Kissinger played in Chile. A former Chilean diplomat describes the mark that the powerful statesman made in his country and elsewhere in the Global South.
December 06, 2023An intellectually humble person may have strong commitments to various beliefs − but balanced with an openness to the likelihood that others, too, may have valuable insights, ideas and evidence.
December 06, 2023The author of a new book on affirmative action in higher education discusses how colleges might still be able to become more diverse now that affirmative action has been banned.
December 06, 2023Preparing for Hanukkah feels uniquely somber yet defiant this year for the Jewish communities in and around Miami Beach
December 06, 2023The College Board has released an updated framework for its new Advanced Placement African American Studies course, which officially launches next academic year
December 06, 2023President Joe Biden told Native American nations gathered for a summit Wednesday that his administration was working to heal the wrongs of the past
December 06, 2023President Joe Biden is pushing for the Indigenous nation that invented lacrosse to be able to play under its own flag when the sport returns to the Olympics in 2028
December 06, 2023Washington’s center of gravity on immigration has shifted demonstrably to the right
December 06, 2023A rights group says the Taliban’s education policies are harming boys as well as girls in Afghanistan
December 06, 2023A Donald Trump ally who worked in his Justice Department says that if the former president is elected again, his administration will retaliate against people in the media “criminally or civilly.”
December 05, 2023Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai says the world needs to recognize and confront the Taliban's “gender apartheid” against women and girls in Afghanistan
December 05, 2023The lawyer selected to be the Army’s first top prosecutor of sexual assaults under an overhaul of the military justice system has been fired because of an email he sent 10 years ago appearing to belittle victims’ assault allegations
December 05, 2023A new survey shows 55% of Black patients said they feel like they must be very careful about their appearance to be treated fairly at medical visits
December 05, 2023A pregnant Texas woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis is asking a court to let her have an abortion
December 05, 2023The presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say they are taking steps to combat antisemitism — and Islamophobia — on campus since the start of the Israel-Hamas war
December 05, 2023The Senate in a single stroke has approved about 425 military promotions after Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama ended a monthslong blockade of nominations over a Pentagon abortion policy
December 05, 2023The major philanthropy, Open Society Foundations, said Tuesday it will commit $50 million to increase civic engagement among women and youth over the next three years as part of its strategy to support democracy in the U.S. Alex Soros, chair of the Open Society Foundations and son of its founder billionaire investor George Soros, said in a statement that the advocacy of women and young people is essential to stopping the advancement of authoritarianism
December 05, 2023How many years you reuse a fake holiday tree matters. So does what happens to a live tree when you’ve packed up the ornaments.
December 05, 2023Is American democracy an ‘experiment’ in the bubbling-beakers-in-a-laboratory sense of the word? If so, what is the experiment attempting to prove, and how will we know if and when it has succeeded?
December 05, 2023Decades ago, the international community codified science as a cultural right and protected expression of human creativity. Reaffirming science’s value can help it better serve humanity.
December 05, 2023Family members of three Black people who were killed this summer at a Dollar General store by a shooter who had posted racist writings have filed a lawsuit
December 04, 2023Gov. Josh Shapiro is labeling a demonstration outside of an Israeli-owned restaurant “antisemitic” after protesters marched against the bombardment of Gaza
December 04, 2023Former Vice President Al Gore says don’t trust the oil and gas industry to report their actual carbon pollution and he adds that the man running United Nations climate talks runs one of the dirtiest oil companies out there
December 04, 2023The imposition of fines and fees on people unable to pay has had a disproportionate impact on Black and Latino communities.
December 04, 2023Hate is for the haters. Much of the thrill of posting toxic messages can come from the attention and social approval a poster gets from like-minded people.
December 04, 2023Teachers are voicing skepticism about a Maine proposal to update science education standards to incorporate teaching about genocide, eugenics and the Holocaust
December 04, 2023The Israel-Hamas war and its polarizing reverberations in America are straining some Muslim-Jewish interfaith relationships in the U.S. more than ever
December 03, 2023Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is denouncing those advocate what he says is “an American retreat from responsibility.”
December 02, 2023Before his peers would label him a heretic, the late Bishop Carlton D
December 02, 2023Henry Kissinger's legacy in the Mideast is the pursuit of what's possible, not necessarily peace, in one of the world's most intractable conflicts
December 02, 2023An appeals court has paused enforcement of a federal government regulation that allows abortion providers to receive family planning grants — but only in Ohio
December 01, 2023A West Virginia coalition that helps support a network of anti-abortion pregnancy centers in the state is receiving $1 million to distribute to organizations committed to encouraging people not to end their pregnancies
December 01, 2023Sandra Day O’Connor's influence could best be seen in the Supreme Court's court’s rulings on abortion
December 01, 2023A scholar of political deception says there is something especially deceitful about George Santos, and his success getting elected demonstrates mastery of something more than just pathological lying.
December 01, 2023The American legal system has never faced greater challenges or demands for reform from people of all races and across the political spectrum
December 01, 2023Native American families have endured generations of systematic child removal, but the grief, loss and trauma that birth mothers still experience have been largely overlooked.
December 01, 2023The original storyline for Road Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” contained some stunning parallels to the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
December 01, 2023Henry Kissinger is being remembered positively in China as an envoy who was willing to overlook ideological differences at the height of the Cold War and long after
December 01, 2023An annual report on capital punishment says more Americans now believe the death penalty is administered unfairly
December 01, 2023The Republican National Committee’s rules for next year’s nominating contest and convention have been released, but a major question is unaddressed: Can delegates vote for a different candidate if the party’s presumptive nominee is convicted of a felony
November 30, 2023Putin’s worldview echoes Russian phrase, ‘Who is not with us, is against us.’
November 30, 2023In an alternate reality, the prime-time showdown between California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis could have been a preview of a 2024 general election debate
November 30, 2023Until the bitter end, Henry Kissinger was one of the trusted few in the tight circle of a distrusting President Richard Nixon
November 30, 2023The death on Wednesday of former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has drawn admiration and scorn from political leaders around the world, highlighting the complicated legacy of Kissinger’s views about what it meant to serve America’s interests during the Cold War — and how the country should exert its influence
November 30, 2023A Cambodian scholar who fled the Khmer Rouge as a child writes about the legacy of Henry Kissinger, who died at the age of 100 on Nov 28, 2023.
November 30, 2023Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is warning that antisemitism in the United States has reached levels unseen in generations and called on his fellow Democrats to clearly condemn it
November 29, 2023Congregants of an Anglican church in a sparsely populated rainforest village in Guyana are asking for peace for their community amid what they see as an existential threat
November 29, 2023It has become an Israeli mantra throughout the latest war in Gaza: Hamas is ISIS
November 29, 2023The gentle parenting movement has exploded in popularity on social media. But is it good for kids or parents?
November 29, 2023The question of whether local declarations offering sanctuary for LGBTQIA+ people place local law above federal law depends on what the statements actually promise.
November 29, 2023A historian of the Middle East examines the decades-old ‘special relationship’ between Israel and the US.
November 29, 2023Black survivors have been nearly invisible in the Catholic Church sexual abuse crisis — even in Baltimore, home to a historic Black Catholic community
November 29, 2023Black survivors have been nearly invisible in the Catholic Church sexual abuse crisis — even in Baltimore, home to a historic Black Catholic community
November 29, 2023In Colorado, President Joe Biden has said Rep_ Lauren Boebert was wrong to describe his policies as “a massive failure."
November 29, 2023By now, Americans should be well aware that the process of electing a president isn’t like electing a senator or governor
November 29, 2023Pope Francis has decided to take measures to punish Cardinal Raymond Burke, who is one of his highest-ranking critics
November 28, 2023A survey about college writing instructors’ fears and anxieties about AI demonstrates that student cheating isn’t their only concern. And in fact, many have embraced it as a teaching tool.
November 28, 2023Innovations in AI seem to be spurring interest in what is or isn’t real, accurate and human.
November 28, 2023Rosalynn Carter was remembered Tuesday as a former U.S. first lady who leveraged her fierce intellect and political power to put her deep Christian faith into action by always helping others, especially those who needed it most
November 28, 2023Nikki Haley says former President Donald Trump causes too much chaos to be successful in a second White House term
November 27, 2023Mayors, governors and others have been forceful advocates for newly arrived migrants seeking shelter and work permits
November 27, 2023What motivates people to donate to charities or causes they care about is often deeply personal
November 27, 2023Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2023 is “authentic.”
November 27, 2023Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh is ready to put his money where his mouth is if it means college football players and other athletes would be paid
November 26, 2023Rep. George Santos says he expected to be expelled from Congress following a scathing report by the House Ethics Committee that found substantial evidence of lawbreaking by the New York Republican
November 25, 2023Florida Gulf Coast's women's basketball team this season has 16 players on the roster and they're all listed as having the same position
November 25, 2023The Seattle Seahawks are broken offensively in a way that could not have been anticipated back during training camp in the summer or even a couple of months ago
November 24, 2023Activists wearing masks depicting President Emmanuel Macron have urged France to change its position and endorse a law proposed by the European Union that would define rape as sex without consent in the bloc’s 27 countries
November 24, 2023Right-wing populist Javier Milei has been president-elect just four days and already Argentina’s unions and social organizations are vowing pushback and even protests if he makes good on his promises to slash the size of the state and privatize companies
November 23, 2023He’s been called the Dutch Donald Trump
November 23, 2023Animal welfare advocates are suing to stop Wisconsin's new wolf management plan
November 23, 2023Lawyers for a once-powerful cardinal have accused Vatican prosecutors of being “prisoners to their completely shattered theory" in closing arguments of a trial that has raised fundamental questions about the rule of law in the city state
November 22, 2023Oscar-winning actor Susan Sarandon and “Scream” star Melissa Barrera were each dropped by Hollywood companies after making comments on the Israel-Hamas war that some deemed antisemitic
November 22, 2023Country singer Jason Aldean’s hit song triggered renewed attention on vigilante justice, racism and urban America.
November 22, 2023When it comes to gentrification, Philadelphia baristas say they’re ‘part of the problem.’ But as low-wage workers, where else should they live and work?
November 22, 2023Britain’s Conservative government has sought to regain the political initiative with a series of tax cuts for businesses and individuals that it hopes will boost its chances in a national election next year that opinion polls suggest it will lose
November 22, 2023Close to half of the U.S. public thinks the country is spending too much on aid to Ukraine
November 22, 2023The founder of a far-right, unofficial Catholic media group has resigned for an unspecified violation of the organization’s morality clause, the group said in a statement
November 21, 2023The explosion of generative AI tools like ChatGPT and fears about where the technology might be headed distract from the many ways AI affects people every day – for better and worse.
November 21, 2023An Oregon judge has ruled that a voter-approved gun control law violates the state constitution
November 21, 2023The ruling could make it impossible for groups like the ACLU to file lawsuits to protect people’s right to vote – significantly changing how the Voting Rights Act has been interpreted so far.
November 21, 2023Donald Trump has long praised a particular type of foreign leader — men he describes as tough and strong, even if they're accused of chipping away at democracy
November 21, 2023Rosalynn Carter used her powerful posts to address injustices as her husband rose in politics, especially those imposed as part of the racist Jim Crow system that prevailed in Georgia
November 21, 2023Thanksgiving may be a time for Americans to come together, but opinion is divided over what’s on the crowded dinner table
November 21, 2023Giving thanks isn't just a holiday tradition
November 21, 2023The 60th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination finds his family, and the country, at a moment many would not have imagined in JFK's lifetime
November 21, 2023Rosalynn Carter's advocacy for mental health started during her husband's 1966 campaign for governor, when she spoke almost daily with Georgia families struggling to get help for their loved ones
November 21, 2023The founder of a former megachurch in Oklahoma known for rejecting the idea of hell and supporting gay rights has died
November 20, 2023While most Mexican politicians refrain from clarifying where they stand on religion, abortion and LGBTQ+ rights, former telenovela actor and right-wing activist Eduardo Verástegui prays on TikTok and claims that getting closer to God changed the course of his life
November 20, 2023To be homeless is a condition in which a person’s freedom is profoundly compromised. And that’s un-American, says a philosopher.
November 20, 2023A federal appeals court appears inclined to reimpose at least some restrictions on Donald Trump’s speech in his election subversion case
November 20, 2023Reactions are pouring in to the death of Rosalynn Carter
November 19, 2023Notable quotes from former first lady Rosalynn Carter
November 19, 2023Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis is refusing to condemn Elon Musk’s post endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory
November 19, 2023The statewide battles over abortion rights since the Supreme Court overturned a constitutional right to abortion have exposed another fault line across the country
November 19, 2023President Joe Biden ends nearly every speech by saying he’s “never been more optimistic” about the country’s direction
November 19, 2023After the mass shooting at an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs that turned a drag queen’s birthday celebration into a massacre, the conservative community was forced to reckon with its reputation for being unwelcoming to gay, lesbian and transgender people
November 19, 2023Experts on extremism fear that the threat of politically motivated violence will intensify as the 2024 presidential campaign heats up
November 18, 2023Both jeers and cheers for Argentina’s right-wing presidential candidate resounded with acoustic perfection inside the country’s legendary Colón Theater, laying bare the country’s polarization
November 18, 2023A federal judge has ruled that North Dakota’s 2021 legislative redistricting plan violates the rights of two Native American tribes because it dilutes their voting strength
November 17, 2023It’s good to talk − just don’t expect it to result in a reset in relations between Beijing and Washington.
November 17, 2023As Argentina heads for a presidential runoff election on Sunday, the decades-old populist movement known as Peronism is on shaky ground
November 17, 2023As the Israel-Hamas war rages in Gaza, there’s a bitter battle for public opinion flaring in the U.S., with angry rallies on many college campuses and disruptive protests at prominent venues in several major cities
November 16, 2023When you view photos and video through the fog of war, first ask yourself: Do I really know what I’m looking at?
November 16, 2023The slogan has been attacked as ‘antisemitic’ and defended as a ‘call for freedom.’ Behind the controversy is decades of usage.
November 16, 2023Lawyers for a group of religious leaders who support abortion rights said during a hearing that Missouri lawmakers intended to “impose their religious beliefs on everyone" in the state when they passed a restrictive abortion ban
November 16, 2023Justin Torres’ “Blackouts” has won the National Book Award for fiction
November 16, 2023West Virginia Sen_ Joe Manchin says if U_S_ voters give former President Donald Trump another term in the White House, “he will destroy democracy in America.”
November 15, 2023U.S. bishops inside a Baltimore hotel approved materials on how Catholics should vote in 2024 elections
November 15, 2023Nikki Haley says anonymity online poses a “national security threat.”
November 15, 2023Advocates scrambling to find shelter for homeless migrant families newly arrived in Massachusetts say families are relying on a patchwork of airport lounges, Uber rides, hospital waiting rooms and walk-in church shelters after the state capped the number of family shelter spots and created a wait list
November 15, 2023Nearly nine out of 10 parents believe their child is performing at grade level despite standardized tests showing far fewer students are on track
November 15, 2023Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh says he’s spoken to his brother, Jim, quite a bit, and he’s proud of how the Michigan coach has handled the sign-stealing scandal that put the program under investigation
November 14, 2023Does Paris have too many SUVs
November 14, 2023Scholars writing for The Conversation take a deeper look at some of the issues expected to be on the agenda when the leaders of the world’s two biggest economies meet.
November 14, 2023The opt-out movement caught on heavily in Colorado in the late 2010s. A group of education scholars is exploring the reasons why.
November 14, 2023Red flag laws are an important step in the right direction, but much more work is needed to determine the role of mental health in the lead-up to and aftermath of mass shootings.
November 14, 2023Hawkish foreign policy wonks have called for a breakup of Russia. But would that fall into Beijing’s hands?
November 14, 2023Despite ongoing efforts to combat anti-Asian racism that arose after the pandemic, a third of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders say they have experienced an act of abuse based on their race or ethnicity in the last year
November 14, 2023Jill Biden has paid tribute to the power of poetry while honoring the 2023 class of National Student Poets
November 13, 2023The College Football Playoff is on the verge of major changes, including expansion, its next media rights deal and possibly evolving its role as an organizing body in college sports
November 13, 2023Marianne Williamson has kept barnstorming for months across America in a demanding schedule of appearances and speeches in her second tenacious run for the presidency
November 12, 2023Donald Trump is pushing for his federal election interference trial in Washington to be televised
November 11, 2023People around the globe are remembering the slaughter and losses from four years of fighting during World War I just over a century ago that was supposed to amount to “the war to end all wars.”
November 11, 2023Government agencies and nonprofits around the country have long been working to reduce the numbers of homeless veterans
November 11, 2023The Biden administration’s plan to build new barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border in South Texas calls for a “movable” design that frustrates both environmentalists and advocates of stronger border enforcement
November 11, 2023Environmental activist Jill Stein is launching another long-shot Green Party bid for the presidency
November 10, 2023Undisputed world lightweight champion Katie Taylor has questioned whether women’s boxing has the “strength and depth” to move to three-minute rounds
November 10, 2023The new constitutional amendment to protect the right to abortion in Ohio − as well as other wins for Democrats − shows the importance of ballot initiatives and focusing on abortion in elections.
November 09, 2023New York is requiring state health officials to develop an outreach program to educate the public on the harmful impacts of medically unnecessary treatments performed on young children born intersex
November 09, 2023An expert on the laws of war argues that the burden is now on Israel to show that the heavy death toll in Gaza is proportionate to the military advantage gained.
November 09, 2023A judge in Michigan has heard arguments Thursday on whether Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson has the authority to keep Donald Trump’s name off state ballots for president
November 09, 2023Charlotte Knobloch was 6 years old when she saw the synagogues of Munich burning and watched helplessly as two Nazi officers marched away a beloved friend of her father who was beaten up and bleeding on the forehead
November 09, 2023Nearly half of Democrats disapprove of how President Joe Biden is handling the Israel-Hamas conflict
November 09, 2023In the United States, the national conference of Catholic bishops rejects the concept of gender transition, leaving many transgender Catholics feeling excluded
November 08, 2023An Arizona Superior Court judge has dismissed a high-profile child sexual abuse lawsuit against The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ruling that church officials who knew that a church member was sexually abusing his daughter had no duty to report the abuse to police or social service agencies because the information was received during a spiritual confession
November 08, 2023The Nashville district attorney is calling on the Tennessee legislature to make it easier to commit someone to a mental institution
November 08, 2023Voters have thrown their support behind abortion rights in races in Ohio, Virginia and elsewhere
November 08, 2023A judge at Britain’s High Court has ruled that life support for a terminally ill 8-month-old baby should be withdrawn at a hospice or hospital
November 08, 2023Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin has expressed disappointment with election results that allowed Democrats to take control of both the Virginia House and Senate, but pledged to work with the party's new legislative majority on bipartisan priorities
November 08, 2023A common criticism of women’s sports is that female players aren’t as entertaining or skilled as their male counterparts. Two researchers decided to put this notion to the test.
November 08, 2023The US attorney for the District of Maryland recently released a PSA to help stem the tide of violence in the state. But will it work?
November 08, 2023Democrats have plenty of good news to celebrate from Tuesday’s elections and there's more evidence they can win races centered on the national debate over abortion
November 08, 2023The Biden administration has asked a federal appeals court to uphold health care guidance issued last year that says hospitals must provide abortions for women whose lives are at risk due to pregnancy
November 07, 2023The Biden administration is warning U.S. schools and colleges that they must take immediate action to stop antisemitism and Islamophobia on their campuses, citing an “alarming rise” in threats and harassment
November 07, 2023People talk about genocide in a few different ways, ranging from technical to colloquial – but a war of words does not replace a path to peace, a genocide scholar writes.
November 07, 2023Political scientists have begun to investigate ways AI can help people understand politics better and get more voices into the public sphere.
November 07, 2023A video posted by U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan has caused widespread criticism, with some saying it's offensive to the Jewish community
November 06, 2023A new poll finds public opinions in 24 countries growing more favorable of the United States than of China
November 06, 2023Many years beyond the average American retirement age, politicians vie for power and influence. Their constituents tend to prefer they step back and pass the torch to younger people.
November 06, 2023An analysis of anti-abortion rights groups in the US shows that while some specifically turn to Christianity to explain their positions, others are looking at broader, human rights arguments.
November 06, 2023Global warming plus leverage equals a big mess for companies.
November 06, 2023Pope Francis has met with European rabbis and decried antisemitism, war and terrorism in a written speech
November 06, 2023The Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a challenge to a 1994 law prohibiting people facing domestic violence restraining orders from having guns
November 06, 2023Mississippi's long history of voter suppression has created widespread voter fatigue among Black residents in a state where they account for nearly 40% of the population
November 05, 2023Over the past three years, local school board elections have become the place where America’s deep political divisions are on full display
November 05, 2023Survivors of government-backed Native American boarding schools and their descendants have shared their experiences as U.S. officials made a final stop in Montana on their yearlong tour to confront the institutions that regularly abused students to assimilate them into white society
November 05, 2023Most members of Congress have stood firmly behind Israel since the Hamas attack, but not Cori Bush
November 04, 2023New House Speaker Mike Johnson is showing what hardball partisan tactics might come next
November 03, 2023One person’s content moderation is another’s censorship when it comes to Democrats’ and Republicans’ views on handling misinformation.
November 03, 2023A fourth Republican presidential debate has been set for next month, with heightened polling requirements that could make the stage less crowded than before
November 03, 2023The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a ban on gun attachments that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns violates federal law
November 03, 2023The new president of the Boy Scouts of America plans to reverse the trend of declining membership and improve safety programs as the organization emerges from bankruptcy following a sexual abuse scandal
November 03, 2023If safety is the heart of the Biden administration’s executive order on AI, then civil rights is its soul.
November 03, 2023A scholar of the Mideast at a large public university says that caring and a commitment to free speech have been central to his campus’s response to students upset and angry over the Israel-Hamas war.
November 03, 2023First used in the 1970s, the social theory known as intersectionality triggered widespread debate on racial identifications and the interplay among categories.
November 03, 2023For the second time in three months, the national debate over reproductive rights focuses on Ohio
November 03, 2023A majority of American adults think artificial intelligence tools will increase the spread of false and misleading information in the 2024 presidential election
November 03, 2023Misinformation about the latest Israel-Hamas war is thriving on social media platforms, where misrepresented video footage, mistranslations and outright falsehoods often crowd out real reporting from the conflict
November 02, 2023President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is taking stock one year out from Election Day and thinks it can hold the White House by framing the 2024 race around many of the same themes it used in 2020
November 02, 2023Your doctor’s MD emerged from the Dark Ages, where practicing rational “human medicine” was seen as an expression of faith and maintaining one’s health a religious duty.
November 02, 2023A constitutional amendment to protect abortion rights in Ohio will be decided in what is expected to be a preview of abortion battles across the country in 2024
November 02, 2023Michigan Democrats have warned the White House that President Joe Biden’s response to the Israel-Hamas war could put his reelection campaign in jeopardy in the key swing state next year
November 02, 2023Iga Swiatek says she and other women’s tennis players are more united than in the past as they seek changes on the WTA Tour, including improvements to prioritize the athletes’ well-being
November 02, 2023Missiles from rebel Yemeni groups risk widening the Middle East conflict. But the motivation behind the attacks could be more about self-interest.
November 01, 2023President Joe Biden is 80 and Donald Trump is 77, and they are prone to making gaffes
November 01, 2023A Colorado judge has denied a motion by Donald Trump’s attorneys to dismiss a case challenging his eligibility to run for president because of the “insurrection” clause of the 14th Amendment
November 01, 2023Republican senators have angrily challenged Sen. Tommy Tuberville on his blockade of almost 400 military officers
November 01, 2023Health care providers often dismiss endometriosis pain as ‘all in your head’ − which can delay a correct diagnosis and treatment for years.
November 01, 2023A Missouri appeals court has ruled against a Republican-written description of abortion-rights ballot measures, calling his summaries politically partisan
October 31, 2023Mike Johnson does not typically mention one aspect of his work before being elected to Congress
October 31, 2023A bishop from Ukraine has a succinct message for Americans: “Please, hear our cry.”
October 31, 2023A frustrated Dabo Swinney defended his Clemson career to a radio caller who questioned his performance as one of college football's highest-paid coaches
October 31, 2023Spain's Catholic bishops have apologized again for sex abuses committed by members following a report by the national ombudsman that accused the church of widespread negligence
October 31, 2023Young Latinos in the US often navigate a contradictory landscape: Their parents see them as not Latino enough, while teachers and peers view them as not American enough.
October 31, 2023Trump’s call for violence is only part of a larger push for social disruption and destruction. For only in the wake of such events can a new, white, Christian, illiberal world arise.
October 31, 2023Singapore’s defense minister has urged China as a dominant power in Asia to take the lead in reducing tensions in the region, warning that a military conflict like the one in Ukraine or the Israel-Hamas war would be devastating for the continent and its future
October 31, 2023Senate Democrats say they will subpoena Republican megadonor Harlan Crow and conservative activist Leonard Leo for more information about their roles in organizing and paying for luxury travel for Supreme Court justices
October 31, 2023A civil rights attorney says he will ask the U.S. Justice Department to investigate why authorities in Jackson, Mississippi, waited months to tell a woman that her son had been struck and killed by a police SUV driven by an off-duty officer
October 30, 2023The Supreme Court is tackling the question of when public officials can block critics from commenting on their social media accounts
October 30, 2023Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki has a two-book deal with Scribner, starting with a book reflecting on her years in government
October 30, 2023Many people who aren’t Jewish are responding as if what’s been taking place is just another episode of Israeli-Palestinian violence. But it’s different for many Jews.
October 30, 2023For Jewish people, Hamas’ violence against children was reminiscent of the Holocaust. For Palestinians, The Israel Defense Force’s killing their children reminds them of a painful past, too.
October 30, 2023A one-stoplight farming community in conservative Idaho has embraced a goal that backers describe as progressive: universal preschool
October 30, 2023Russians commemorated the victims of Soviet state terror on Sunday, while the Russian government continues its crackdown on dissent in the country
October 29, 2023The stage is set for the New Hampshire presidential primary, even though the date hasn't been picked yet
October 29, 2023Donald Trump is predicting he will win Iowa’s Republican presidential caucuses in January
October 29, 2023Nikki Haley says Donald Trump is wrong to praise foreign strongmen and warns his “chaos, vendettas and drama” are dangerous
October 28, 2023New House Speaker Mike Johnson has inherited many of the same problems that bedeviled Republican leaders with far more experience
October 28, 2023Bryce Harper wants big leaguers to play in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, but Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred says pausing the regular season to make that happen would be difficult
October 27, 2023Misinformation targeting a reproductive rights measure on Ohio's fall ballot is appearing in an unusual place: the official website of the Republican-controlled state Senate
October 27, 2023People, including children and adolescents, are being exposed to horrifying imagery in the news and on social media. But there are ways to stay informed without overconsuming harmful content.
October 27, 2023Evangelical Christian conservatives have long had allies in top Republican leadership in Congress
October 27, 2023With identity the most lucrative commodity social media platforms trade in, their fetishization of authenticity remains ironclad.
October 27, 2023Thanks to a rabble-rousing, socialist priest, it’s a milestone year for direct democracy in the U.S. The practice of citizen-originated ballot measures began 125 years ago when South Dakota became the first state to have them
October 27, 2023Abortion has had a complicated history in the Soviet Union and Russia
October 27, 2023Supporters of a ballot measure that would enshrine abortion rights in the Ohio Constitution are far outraising their anti-abortion opponents in the months leading up to the November election
October 26, 2023Dusty Baker’s bright smile, genuine care and love for people will live on in his remarkable baseball legacy as much as that signature toothpick, his baseball wisdom and winning into his mid-70s
October 26, 2023“Stop the bombs and save lives!”
October 26, 2023More than two weeks after Hamas' attack, many Israelis are furious at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, not just for failing to prevent the initial attack, but for failing to come to their aid afterward
October 26, 2023As authorities around the world scramble to draw up guardrails for artificial intelligence, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak warns against moving too fast on regulating the rapidly developing technology before it’s fully understood
October 26, 2023Oregon State and Washington State claim the actions of the Pac-12 and Commissioner George Kliavkoff in response to members announcing their intent to leave the conference show those departing schools relinquished their rights to decide the long-term future of the league
October 25, 2023Scholastic Inc. will end a widely criticized policy that made it easier for school book fairs not to sell works with racial, disability and LGBTQ+ themes
October 25, 2023The Buffalo Bills haven’t looked like Super Bowl contenders in a month
October 25, 2023A heated debate has emerged about the once-unimaginable shooting of a teacher by her 6-year-old student: How should the school district take care of the teacher
October 25, 2023The city of Orlando is moving forward with plans to create a memorial on the property of the Pulse nightclub, where 49 people were massacred seven years ago
October 25, 2023Being open to the possibility you could be wrong about your beliefs is an important part of learning about the world. But this trait is not enough on its own.
October 25, 2023A new study from PEN America finds that tens of thousands of books are banned or restricted by U.S. prisons
October 25, 2023Japan’s Supreme Court has ruled that a law requiring transgender people to undergo sterilization surgery in order to officially change their gender is unconstitutional
October 25, 2023Some U.S. lawmakers are demanding that seafood processed in two Chinese provinces be banned from entering the U.S. market because of concerns about rights abuses
October 24, 2023Attorney and prominent conservative media figure Jenna Ellis has pleaded guilty to a felony charge over efforts to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss in Georgia
October 24, 2023Ghosts can be spooky fun, but there’s no evidence they exist.
October 24, 2023In the days of online bulletin board systems, community members decided what was acceptable. Reviving that approach to content moderation offers Big Tech a path to legitimacy as public spaces.
October 24, 2023An obscure Mexican engraver named José Guadalupe Posada created the satirical skull in the early 1900s and sold it for a penny. But after he died, it took on a life of its own.
October 24, 2023To appeal to a new generation of philanthropists, the Brooklyn Community Foundation is ditching the word “foundation” and establishing itself with a new name: Brooklyn Org
October 23, 2023Local elections in Democratic strongholds at both ends of Pennsylvania next month could show how voters feel about progressive candidates and issues such as abortion and crime ahead of the 2024 election
October 23, 2023Author Salman Rushdie called for the unconditional defense of freedom of expression as he received a prestigious German prize
October 22, 2023A K-9 police dog's attack on a Black motorist in Ohio is resurrecting questions about race relations and law enforcement tactics
October 22, 2023Michigan State showed Adolf Hitler’s image as part of a pregame quiz on videoboards before playing No. 2 Michigan, and later apologized for the inappropriate content provided by an outside source
October 22, 2023For many Americans, the Republican dysfunction that has ground business in the U.S. House to a halt as two wars rage abroad and a budget crisis looms at home is feeding into a longer-term pessimism about the country’s core institutions
October 21, 2023The fallout from the Israel-Hamas war has spilled into workplaces everywhere, with corporate leaders from the highest ranks of prominent companies weighing in with their views while workers complain their voices are not being heard
October 21, 2023The battle over how to teach reading has landed in court
October 20, 2023The Supreme Court says it will indefinitely block a lower court order curbing Biden administration efforts to combat controversial social media posts on topics including COVID-19 and election security
October 20, 2023A Texas judge has ruled that Infowars host Alex Jones cannot use bankruptcy protection to avoid paying more than $1.1 billion to families who sued over his conspiracy theories that the Sandy Hook school massacre was a hoax
October 20, 2023A new documentary “Uncharitable,” from “Paris Trout” and “Losing Isaiah” director Stephen Gyllenhaal, puts the long-running debate in the nonprofit sector over the role of overhead back in the spotlight
October 20, 2023The International Olympic Committee has dismissed claims by Russian President Vladimir Putin of “ethnic discrimination” against athletes who are excluded from international sport
October 20, 2023Japanese author Haruki Murakami says he is torn by the conflict in Israel since he has Jewish friends but understands that the situation of the Palestinians is dire
October 20, 2023Liberal discontent over rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority is playing a role in Pennsylvania’s top-of-the-ballot election this fall
October 19, 2023A tale of quick-witted survival during the Israel-Hamas war has turned a 65-year old woman into an unlikely folk hero in Israel
October 18, 2023NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said the league still needs to hire more minority head coaches
October 18, 2023Independent presidential candidate Robert F
October 18, 2023Vaccine policies fall on a spectrum, from mandates to recommendations. Deciding what to use and when is not so much a science but a balancing act between personal autonomy and public good.
October 18, 2023Donors and grantmakers often pressure nonprofits to spend as little as possible on fundraising and overhead.
October 18, 2023California Gov. Gavin Newsom often touts California's leadership on the national stage
October 18, 2023At a time when Americans are deeply divided along party lines, a new poll shows agreement on at least one issue: The United States' two-decade-long war in Afghanistan was not worth fighting
October 18, 2023Athletics reliever Trevor May ripped Oakland owner John Fisher and implored him to sell the franchise while announcing his retirement Monday in an empassioned video message
October 17, 2023As American Jews grieve, many are giving as well.
October 17, 2023A celebrated poet and Nobel laureate, Louise Glück wrote about mortality, broken families and human frailty with devastating wryness and quiet beauty.
October 17, 2023India’s top court has refused to legalize same-sex marriages passing the responsibility back to Parliament
October 17, 2023Republicans have rejected congressman Jim Jordan for House speaker on the first ballot
October 17, 2023Israel is a small country in a big world. It’s like a little house on a big street. Sometimes, this house faces challenges. There are groups and people who don’t like Israel. One such group is called Hamas. They sometimes send dangerous rockets into Israel, trying to hurt the people there. Over the past week, we have seen the aftermath of the violence that has taken place between Israel and Gaza. There have been over 100 fatalities, including children’s deaths. Homes, schools, and hospitals have been wrecked.. Israel is bombing Gaza because of constant rocket attacks. Terror groups like Hamas
October 16, 2023Italian lawmakers have marked the 80th anniversary of the Nazi roundup of more than 1,200 Roman Jews in the Holocaust with a debate on a measure to partially fund a long-delayed Holocaust Museum in the capital
October 16, 2023The Supreme Court has rejected North Carolina’s appeal in a dispute with animal rights groups over a law aimed at preventing undercover employees at farms and other workplaces from taking documents or recording video
October 16, 2023The Osage murders of the 1920s are just one episode in nearly two centuries of stealing land and resources from Native Americans. Much of this theft was guided and sanctioned by federal law.
October 16, 2023Rep. Jim Jordan becoming House speaker would help cement the far right’s takeover of the Republican Party and trigger conflict with Democrats over the size and scope of government
October 16, 2023Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis says the United States shouldn't take in any Palestinian refugees if they flee the Gaza Strip because they are “all antisemitic.”
October 15, 2023The Republican Party’s White House hopefuls are offering conflicting messages on the growing foreign policy challenges that include the Israel-Hamas war
October 15, 2023Poland is holding an election Sunday that many view as its most important one since the 1989 vote that toppled communism
October 14, 2023West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin has benefited from waiting to reveal where he stood as the swing vote in a chamber closely divided between Democrats and Republicans
October 14, 2023The deadly attacks by Hamas on Israeli civilians and the devastating Israeli airstrikes and blockade of Gaza have raised accusations among international legal experts that both sides were violating international law
October 13, 2023For more than a month, Darryl George, a Black high school student in Texas, spent each school day sitting by himself in punishment over his hairstyle
October 13, 2023Fran Drescher said Thursday that she is baffled and disappointed that Hollywood studios abruptly broke off talks this week with the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
October 13, 2023The Supreme Court avoided a catastrophic accident last year when a piece of marble at least two feet long crashed to the ground in an interior courtyard used by the justices and their aides
October 13, 2023On the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington, speakers called attention to a nationwide backlash against LGBTQ+ rights
October 13, 2023A federal judge will allow enforcement of a public health order that suspends the right to carry guns at public parks and playgrounds in New Mexico’s largest metro area
October 11, 2023New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is defending her decision to treat gun violence as a public health epidemic by presenting statistics on recent firearms seizures, reduced reports of gunfire in the Albuquerque metro area and an uptick in jail bookings
October 11, 2023President Joe Biden's interview with prosecutors over his handling of classified documents signals that a sprawling investigation that has included questioning of some of his closest aides is nearing a conclusion
October 10, 2023Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are calling for social media platforms to adopt better content-moderation policies and other fixes
October 10, 2023It’s part of a decadeslong trend.
October 10, 2023Geraldine Brooks’ “Horse,” a novel about race and forgotten history, and Robert Samuels’ and Toluse Olorunnipa’s “His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice” have won awards from the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation
October 10, 2023Not enough time is being set aside for school counselors and psychologists to help students work on mental health issues, a professor of school psychology says.
October 10, 2023Another Republican presidential candidate has dropped out of the crowded 2024 field
October 09, 2023Most Israelis thought it was an ironclad social contract
October 09, 2023Native Americans are celebrating their histories and cultures with events across the country marking Indigenous Peoples Day
October 09, 2023Two political outsiders have taken steps to launch independent or third-party presidential bids over the past week
October 09, 2023Australians appear likely to reject a proposal that would create an advocate for the Indigenous population in a referendum outcome that some see as a victory for racism
October 09, 2023Burnout and deteriorating mental health symptoms like anxiety and depression are affecting religious leaders at a worrisome pace
October 08, 2023Impeachments are supposed to be for crimes committed in office while recalls are intended to remove elected officials suspected of corruption or gross negligence
October 08, 2023Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have made California the first state in the nation to outlaw discrimination based on caste
October 07, 2023Ballot drop boxes have been a prime target for those pushing right-wing conspiracy theories that the 2020 presidential election was rigged and that voting results can’t be trusted
October 07, 2023New eyewitness accounts are raising questions about the FBI’s secretive 2018 dig for a legendary cache of Civil War-era gold
October 07, 2023A federal judge in Oklahoma has declined to stop a new law from taking effect that makes it a felony crime for health care workers to provide gender-affirming care to young transgender people
October 06, 2023From Alcatraz Island to a park in New York City, Native American people will celebrate their centuries-long history of resilience with ceremonies, dances and speeches
October 06, 2023African immigrant writers possess particularly acute insights into the way race and racism affect daily life in the US.
October 06, 2023Many states are shifting their approach to sex education in K-12 schools with stricter regulations on when and what students learn about their bodies
October 06, 2023A former High Court chief justice and dozens of legal academics are rebutting key arguments used in the public campaign against Australians creating an advocacy body for the Indigenous population
October 06, 2023Progressive activist Cornel West will run for president in 2024 as an independent, not as a member of the Green Party
October 05, 2023The architect of legislation to give the Milwaukee Brewers more than $614 million to cover repairs at American Family Field is defending the proposal to fellow lawmakers
October 05, 2023History suggests that there’s risk of overplaying one’s hand when new technology is lurking.
October 05, 2023Comedians like Stephen Colbert might mock the entertainment mecca, but live theater is in too much of a crisis to dismiss the town’s formula of spectacle meets story.
October 05, 2023In parts of the world, religiously unaffiliated people are increasing in numbers, and can safely and publicly be an atheist or agnostic
October 05, 2023In the Middle East and North Africa, where religion is often ingrained in daily life’s very fabric, rejecting faith can come with consequences
October 05, 2023Ask Americans what their religion is, and nearly 1 in 3 say this -- none
October 05, 2023In the Middle East and North Africa, where religion is often ingrained in daily life's very fabric, rejecting faith can come with repercussions
October 05, 2023Vice President Kamala Harris and other national leaders praised the late U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein as a leader of uncommon integrity and defender of American values
October 05, 2023Over the past two weeks, Donald Trump said shoplifters should be immediately shot, suggested that America’s top general be executed and mocked a political opponent’s husband who was beaten with a hammer
October 05, 2023Ask Americans what their religion is, and nearly 1 in 3 say this -- none
October 05, 2023In Uruguay, a small nation of some 3.3 million people, more than half identify as “nones” – atheist, agnostic or other religiously unaffiliated – the highest portion in Latin America
October 05, 2023Steelers running back Najee Harris is tired of people piling on the Pittsburgh coaching staff during his team’s sluggish start
October 04, 2023State election officials and privacy advocates are raising alarms about a push by several conservative groups to gain access to state voter rolls
October 04, 2023The Associated Press and theGrio have come together for a candid conversation about issues facing Black Americans ahead of the 2024 election and amid high levels of polarization
October 04, 2023“Star Trek” actor and political activist George Takei has a picture book scheduled for next spring that draws upon his early childhood years spent in internment camps for Japanese Americans
October 04, 2023Jill Biden is urging women to talk to their doctors about getting mammograms or other cancer screenings during October, which is Breast Cancer Awareness Month
October 04, 2023Pope Francis is shaming and challenging world leaders to take concrete action to slow climate change before it’s too late
October 04, 2023Republican California congressman Kevin McCarthy's ouster from the speaker role has left the House of Representatives roiling
October 04, 2023Defense attorneys for two Denver-area police officers charged in the 2019 killing of Elijah McClain are trying to cast doubt on whether a neck hold by police contributed to his death
October 04, 2023GOP presidential candidate Mike Pence, the former vice president, chastised a group of hard-right Republicans who ousted Kevin McCarthy from his role as House speaker Tuesday, saying that “chaos is never America’s friend.”
October 03, 2023Policymakers and others often invoke the 1957 Russian launch of sputnik when trying to spark a discussion about education reform. A rhetoric scholar examines how often they succeed.
October 03, 2023Foreigners with guns are met with hostility in most countries in the world
October 03, 2023Colorado’s highest court says it will hear the case of a Christian baker who refused to make a cake celebrating a gender transition
October 03, 2023U.K. Home Secretary Suella Braverman has railed against unauthorized migrants, human-rights laws and “woke” critics of her hardline policies at the Conservative Party's annual conference
October 03, 2023Paul Harding’s Maine-based historical novel “This Other Eden,” Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s dystopian “Chain-Gang All-Stars” and Justin Torres' multi-generational “Blackouts” are among the fiction finalists for the National Book Awards
October 03, 2023When Ron DeSantis said during last week’s Republican presidential debate that he would support a federal ban on abortion at 15 weeks of pregnancy, some anti-abortion activists called it the news they had been waiting months to hear
October 03, 2023Actor and disability rights advocate Selma Blair has helped President Joe Biden salute the legacy of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act, displaying a touch of the comedic timing that made her a star in Hollywood hits like “Legally Blonde” and “Cruel Intentions.”
October 02, 2023The office of Montana's Republican attorney general is appealing a landmark climate change ruling in which a judge said state agencies aren't doing enough to protect 16 young plaintiffs from harm caused by global warming
October 02, 2023Clergy sexual abuse survivors have unveiled a proposed new church law calling for the permanent removal of abusive priests and superiors who covered for them
October 02, 2023VAR was supposed to put an end to all of this
October 02, 2023New regulations in Nebraska require trans youth seeking gender-affirming care to wait seven days to start puberty blocking medications or hormone treatments
October 01, 2023The Supreme Court seems a bit quieter than in recent years as the justices begin a new term
October 01, 2023A European governmental body has condemned the decision by Turkey’s Supreme Court to confirm the aggravated life sentence for activist and philanthropist Osman Kavala
September 30, 2023Abortion opponents in Ohio are at odds over how to frame their opposition to a reproductive rights amendment on the state’s November ballot and over longer-term goals on how severely they would restrict the procedure
September 30, 2023The Onondaga Nation has protested for centuries that illegal land grabs shrunk their territory from a 2.5 million acre expanse in upstate New York to a relatively paltry patch of land south of Syracuse
September 30, 2023The nation's LGBTQ+ leaders are lauding the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein as a longtime friend who learned and evolved to become an ally
September 30, 2023The Supreme Court is returning to a new term with familiar topics such as guns and abortion, as well as concerns about ethics swirling around the justices
September 30, 2023Poland’s opposition leader Donald Tusk is leading a march in Warsaw on Sunday aimed at energizing supporters and winning new hearts in his against-the-odds battle to unseat the right-wing government in the nation’s upcoming parliamentary election
September 30, 2023As fashion norms change, what people wear in public becomes ground zero for hashing out new ideas of race, class and gender.
September 29, 2023During the civil rights era, Black teachers were valued members of the community and often taught generations of family members.
September 29, 2023The complexities of abortion-related politics in the post-Roe v. Wade era are continuing to put the squeeze on Republican Daniel Cameron
September 28, 2023A ruling by North Dakota’s Supreme Court has jeopardized funding for major parts of the state government
September 28, 2023A monument has been unveiled in Detroit that commemorates a white mother slain while doing civil rights work in Alabama in 1965 and the Black friend who helped raise her children after her death
September 28, 2023A sharply divided privacy oversight board says the FBI and other government agencies should be required to get court approval before reviewing the communications of U.S. citizens collected through a secretive foreign surveillance program
September 28, 2023Year after year, public schools have come up short on STEM teachers. An education policy scholar pushes for a novel solution.
September 28, 2023With Donald Trump absent again, Republican presidential hopefuls took potshots at each other but agreed that Bidenomics isn’t cutting it.
September 28, 2023President Joe Biden has issued one of his most dire warnings yet that Donald Trump and his allies are a menace to American democracy
September 28, 2023The Senate has voted to reverse an informal guidance issued by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer last week that senators could wear what they want when voting or speaking in the chamber
September 28, 2023Virginia Republicans are stepping up their criticism of the rhetoric being used by their Democratic opponents in abortion-focused messaging in this year’s critical legislative elections
September 27, 2023The Michigan Supreme Court has ordered all judges to address people in court by the pronouns they use or by “other respectful means.”
September 27, 2023A Florida school district has ordered the removal of almost all books with gay characters from classrooms and libraries
September 27, 2023Shutting down the government won’t help reduce the deficit. Here’s what would.
September 27, 2023Ohio Supreme Court justices have questioned the state’s lawyer about a legal strategy that Ohio is attempting in hopes of reviving its law banning abortions except in the earliest weeks of pregnancy
September 27, 2023Ronald Reagan gave many notable speeches as president and he was known for his turn of a phrase
September 27, 2023The government’s use of the Hindi word for ‘India’ revives debates over whether Hindi should be the national language – and reopens some old wounds.
September 27, 2023A critical race theory scholar explains why it’s problematic to use rap lyrics as evidence of a crime, and what some lawmakers are doing to protect artistic expression.
September 27, 2023In a major new study, Black Americans expressed broad concerns about how they are depicted in the news media, with majorities saying they see racist or negative depictions and a lack of effort by journalists to cover broader segments of their community
September 27, 2023Republican Utah House Speaker Brad Wilson has formally announced that he's running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Mitt Romney
September 27, 2023Six Portuguese young adults and children between 11 and 24 years of age were at the European Court of Human Rights Wednesday, accusing 32 European governments of violating their human rights for what they say is a failure to adequately address climate change
September 27, 2023A coalition of anti-abortion organizations is urging two Wisconsin prosecutors to pursue charges against abortion providers in their counties despite a court's ruling that abortion is legal
September 26, 2023The Supreme Court in recent terms has upended the interpretation of core laws. This term, the justices will decide just how far this revolution goes.
September 26, 2023The U_N_’s most powerful body is being asked to support governments seeking to legally declare the crackdown by Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers on women and girls “gender apartheid."
September 26, 2023Donatella Versace slammed the Italian government for what she described as anti-gay policies in a heartfelt and personal speech that referenced her late brother, Gianni Versace, while receiving a fashion award this weekend
September 26, 2023Sen. Bob Menendez is coming under heavy pressure to resign from office as he faces federal bribery allegations
September 26, 2023Though it is a fact that some enslaved people learned valuable skills, it’s a myth that they had the same path of upward mobility that white laborers enjoyed.
September 26, 2023Mel Tucker’s attorney says Michigan State does not have cause to fire its suspended football coach after Tucker acknowledged having phone sex with an activist and rape survivor because he did not “engage in unprofessional or unethical behavior” or violate his contract
September 25, 2023If another pandemic happens, the world will again be unprepared
September 25, 2023Lawyers for former President Donald Trump are arguing that attempts to kick him off the presidential ballot under a rarely used constitutional clause for engaging in “insurrection” are improper attempts to interfere with his freedom of speech
September 25, 2023Only 50 years ago, originalism was considered a fringe movement, hardly taken seriously. Now its adherents dominate the Supreme Court.
September 25, 2023Less than a year after a stirring run to the NL Championship Series, the high-priced, underperforming San Diego Padres are defending themselves against reports there is a lack of clubhouse leadership within a dysfunctional organization
September 24, 2023California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed several bills aimed at bolstering the state’s protections for LGBTQ+ people
September 24, 2023How important can the meaning of a single word be
September 24, 2023The recent G20 Summit hosted by India couldn't have gone better for Prime Minister Narendra Modi
September 24, 2023Pope Francis is labeling the weapons industry as being a key driver of the “martyrdom” of Ukraine’s people in Russia’s war
September 23, 2023Inside, those who administer the world look for peace
September 23, 2023The shocking allegation that India may have been behind the assassination of a Sikh separatist leader in Canada is shining the light on various layers of activism as well as diverse views on a separate Sikh state or Khalistan within the North American diaspora
September 23, 2023President Joe Biden says he is determined to stop gun violence in the U.S. as he formally launches the first-ever federal office to be dedicated to uncovering solutions and supporting communities ravaged by shootings
September 22, 2023Social media users shared a range of false claims this week
September 22, 2023Megan Rapinoe was always unabashedly authentic during her soccer career, whether she was advocating for equal pay and racial justice or scoring an elusive goal off a corner kick
September 22, 2023People who object to affirmative action were more likely to discriminate against job candidates with Black-sounding names than those who supported it, whether or not they had to rush.
September 22, 2023Peer pressure, amusement and the desire for attention help explain why young people participate in risky social media challenges.
September 22, 2023Pope Francis has blasted what he calls the “fanaticism of indifference” that greets migrants seeking a better life in Europe
September 22, 2023President Joe Biden’s education chief says he’s open to using “whatever levers” are available — including federal money — to discourage colleges from giving preference to the children of alumni and donors
September 22, 2023A longshot Republican candidate for Missouri governor and his supporters describe his use of a flamethrower at a recent “Freedom Fest” event outside St. Louis as no big deal
September 22, 2023Some medical providers are dropping continuing gender-affirming care for minors, even though it remains legal
September 22, 2023A new poll shows that Americans are much more sympathetic to Hollywood's striking writers and actors then they are to the studios on the other side of the table
September 22, 2023Some of the nation’s most influential Black leaders say many of the threats to democratic institutions in the U.S. appear to be aimed squarely at their community, including efforts to make voting more difficult, censor lessons around race and weaken social safeguards such as affirmative action
September 21, 2023While President Joe Biden has low approval ratings, few other American presidents − with the exception of FDR and Warren Harding − have experienced such a run of good media luck.
September 21, 2023Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy has taken a dig at former President Donald Trump
September 21, 2023The G20 has its critics, but an expert on international politics explains why it still performs a useful function – particularly in this period of great geopolitical divisions.
September 21, 2023Debates about school discipline have become polarized between proponents of restorative justice and those who believe a get-tough approach is required.
September 21, 2023King Charles III has made an emotional stop in front of Paris' fire-damaged Notre Dame cathedral on the second day of his state visit to France
September 21, 2023Protests by thousands of Guatemalans this week supporting President-elect Bernardo Arévalo suggest that the efforts by some officials to derail his presidency have awakened a new will among many citizens to defend democracy
September 21, 2023The debate over whether a Black high school student in Texas should be serving in-school suspension for wearing twisted dreadlocks to class has intensified as the student’s family and his school district both took legal action
September 20, 2023The son of jailed Hong Kong media mogul and prominent pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai says he doesn't want to see his father die in detention, as his lawyers raised the prospect that his long-delayed trial may be pushed back indefinitely
September 20, 2023Adidas CEO Bjørn Gulden said he doubts that Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, “meant what he said” when he made a series of antisemitic and offensive remarks last year
September 20, 2023Several Catholic priests have held a ceremony blessing same-sex couples outside Cologne cathedral in a protest against the city’s conservative archbishop Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki
September 20, 2023The influential abortion-rights group NARAL Pro-Choice America has changed its name to Reproductive Freedom for All
September 20, 2023Kentucky’s debate over abortion access is heating up the governor's race
September 20, 2023Iran’s parliament has approved a bill to impose heavier penalties on women who refuse to wear the mandatory Islamic headscarf in public and those who support them
September 20, 2023While Americans tend not to use the word “peace,” and instead opt for terms like “safety and security,” their desires and fears are not so different from what people in war-torn places express.
September 20, 2023With Morocco, there’s stronger bureaucracy, and in Libya, authorities are weaker. But, as a scholar who has worked in both countries explains, the results are the same: not enough aid getting through.
September 20, 2023Environmental activists are praising President Joe Biden's New Deal-style American Climate Corps
September 20, 2023One of the biggest fights over abortion rights this year is in Virginia, where all of the state House and Senate seats are up for reelection
September 20, 2023The nationwide surge in book bannings continues
September 20, 2023Women who say they were abused by a once-prominent Jesuit artist say they are now being revictimized by his superiors
September 19, 2023Five women state senators from South Carolina who formed a bipartisan coalition to filibuster a near-total abortion ban in their state have been chosen to receive the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award this year
September 19, 2023Argentina is celebrating a decision by a United Nations conference to include a former clandestine detention and torture center as a World Heritage site
September 19, 2023Moms for Liberty, founded in 2021 and now boasting 120,000 members, could ride its conservative, limited-government message to a position of strong influence in the GOP.
September 19, 2023Throughout the corridors of many state Capitols, families are sharing emotionally gutting stories of tragedy caused by mass school shootings with the hope that revealing their trauma will convince lawmakers on either side of the political aisle to reconsider firearm policies
September 19, 2023Republican gubernatorial nominee Daniel Cameron has appeared to soften his hardline opposition to abortion
September 18, 2023President Joe Biden has told a packed Broadway theater full of big-name stars hosting a fundraiser in his honor that he is running for reelection because Donald Trump was determined to destroy the nation
September 18, 2023Donald Trump is facing political blowback from within his party for his comments about abortion
September 18, 2023The international community has also failed to protect civilians in Syria, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Yemen, Myanmar and Ethiopia, a genocide expert writes.
September 18, 2023Whether experienced directly or indirectly, racial incidents can trigger numerous psychological impacts on Black people, including lower self-esteem and anxiety.
September 18, 2023When people hear the term ‘liberal arts,’ it may sound like a phrase with political overtones. A scholar of literature explains why that’s wrong and takes a closer look at its origin and meaning.
September 18, 2023Many people with sickle cell disease don’t receive adequate treatment to ease their pain and are subjected to racial discrimination and stigmatization.
September 18, 2023Americans held for years in Iranian custody walked arm-in-arm off a plane into freedom
September 18, 2023Pope Francis urged all people to do their part to address the world’s problems, especially climate change and the care of children, to open The Clinton Global Initiative Monday in New York in a talk with former President Bill Clinton
September 18, 2023Former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark was acting within the scope of his official duties when he wrote a letter expressing concern about alleged concerns with the 2020 election in Georgia, his lawyer said as he sought to move charges against Clark to federal court
September 18, 2023Cord Jefferson’s “American Fiction,” a biting satire starring Jeffrey Wright as a disillusioned academic, has won the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival, a much-watched bellwether in the Oscar race
September 17, 2023The Supreme Court’s decision siding with Black voters in an Alabama redistricting case gave Democrats and voting rights activist a surprising opportunity before the 2024 elections to have congressional maps redrawn in a handful of states
September 17, 2023Prisoners at the Louisiana State Penitentiary have filed a class-action lawsuit over conditions at the prison's farm
September 16, 2023In the months since a single senator froze military promotions over the Pentagon’s abortion policy, the uniformed officers affected have been largely silent, wary of stepping into a political fray
September 16, 2023Donald Trump is dominating the early stages of the Republican presidential primary even as he’s refused to endorse a federal ban on abortion
September 15, 2023The Biden administration will withhold less military aid from Egypt over its human rights abuses this year
September 14, 2023Societies celebrate heroes and commemorate tragedies. But why is there so little public acknowledgment of environmental disasters?
September 14, 2023Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy says he wants to reduce the federal employee headcount by half in his first year in office and by 75% during his first term if he makes it to the White House
September 13, 2023A New Yorker upset that the city has been housing homeless migrants in his neighborhood on Staten Island has set up a loudspeaker to deliver an unwelcoming message to his new neighbors
September 13, 2023The changes wrought by the new conservative majority in the US Supreme Court are revolutionary.
September 13, 2023Indigenous women in Brazil’s capital Brasilia showcased their creations during a fashion event as part of the Third March of Indigenous Women to claim women’s rights and the demarcation of Indigenous lands
September 13, 2023As US cities struggle to reduce homelessness, two scholars explain how planners can reform shelter design to be more humane and to prioritize mental health and well-being.
September 13, 2023Humility doesn’t get the fanfare of virtues like courage, compassion or generosity. But without humility, those other virtues won’t get much traction in the quest to live a good life.
September 13, 2023Impeaching a recently elected Wisconsin Supreme Court justice for conduct neither criminal nor corrupt would negate the people’s votes – and strike a blow at judicial independence.
September 13, 2023Women in three states are challenging strict abortion laws that went into effect after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year
September 12, 2023Arizona is considering a multibillion-dollar desalination project to address its urgent water needs. Three water experts call for a go-slow approach and point to Israel as a role model.
September 12, 2023Antisemitism on X recycles ancient tropes falsely blaming Jewish people for a wide range of social and political ills, and for their own victimization.
September 12, 2023A famous gesture kick-started hopes of peace in the Middle East. But today, the idea of a two-state solution seems further away than ever before.
September 12, 2023For President Zelenskyy and Ukraine’s citizens, the country’s quest for NATO and EU membership is about security – and identity.
September 08, 2023The public’s right to know often gives way to concerns about privacy, public safety and protecting evidence.
September 08, 2023While it’s widely believed that Howard University came to be known as “The Mecca” in the 1960s, new evidence shows the nickname is more than half a century older than that.
September 06, 2023Industry leaders, scientists and policymakers may see AI’s technical potential, but societies have trouble adapting to revolutionary advances without broad public participation.
September 05, 2023Scholars differ over whether having students use AI in their assignments will help or hurt their careers after graduation.
September 04, 2023In the wake of two public episodes of Mitch McConnell appearing to ‘freeze,’ a longtime Kentucky journalist explains how an uncharismatic Kentucky lawyer came to rule the Senate.
September 01, 2023In the US, white men have long had the power to make decisions about women’s reproductive health care. Those decisions have often been especially harmful to Black women.
September 01, 2023An expert in disaster law explains the steps for securing aid, what to do if everything is lost and the deadlines to watch.
August 31, 2023‘Don’t Say Gay’ bills claim to use science to justify a binary definition of sex based on certain traits. But the biology of sex and gender is not so simple.
August 31, 2023Special counsels can help presidential administrations avoid the perception of bias, but they are not as independent as the independent counsels of the past.
August 31, 2023The drug pricing reform may drastically lower prices for some of the most critical life-saving drugs in the long run. But numerous obstacles stand in the way.
August 30, 2023A former executive director of the National Governors Association explains what it is about certain governors that makes them less suited for the presidency.
August 30, 2023Citizens are helping refugees get settled in the US, but the lack of standard federal rules makes the process tricky for both refugees and citizens to navigate.
August 30, 2023An analysis by scholars at the University of California, Davis showed that just a small number of cities in California actively consider racism when developing their plans.
August 29, 2023A lecturer in English literature gets her students to examine children’s books through the lens of race, class and sexuality.
August 29, 2023A veteran education researcher raises questions about whether educational research is actually being put to use.
August 25, 2023Adapting to our fiery future means preparing for the risks and not putting out every low-risk wildfire, writes the author of a new book on learning to live with fire.
August 22, 2023Tipping seems to be more coercive and less tied to service quality these days.
August 18, 2023Potential inaccuracies in CDC high school surveys may have created an exaggerated perception that LGBQ youth engage in risky behaviors, new research shows.
August 17, 2023While a Florida curriculum implies that enslaved Africans ‘benefited’ from skills acquired through slavery, history shows they brought knowledge and skills to the US that predate their captivity.
August 14, 2023The framing of these stories of murder and mayhem have remained remarkably consistent since the invention of the printing press – and may reveal our own hidden fears and desires.
August 07, 2023A scholar explains how a concept that appeared in Nation of Islam literature nearly a century ago essentially defines hip-hop’s consciousness today.
August 04, 2023In their lawsuits against affirmative action, Students For Fair Admission claimed to want to protect Asian Americans. A law professor explains why the Supreme Court ruling doesn’t achieve that goal.
August 03, 2023Being a mom can be heartbreaking, empowering, scary, fulfilling and everything in between.
August 01, 2023Complex as they are, Oppenheimer’s life and views of the bomb are far easier to wrestle with than the reality of nuclear power itself.
August 01, 2023What the 5 stages of grief are, and how to get through them
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