The past couple of weeks have seen the FBI and Apple unlock horns after the government managed to decrypt the data found on the infamous...

On February 4, 2016, the US government won an unprecedented courtroom victory: it successfully prosecuted and imprisoned Ross Ulbricht,...

When Trudy Robideau needed to finance a car repair, she decided to take out a payday loan. When she couldn’t afford to pay it back after...

Earlier this year, the world watched in consternation as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s increasingly autocratic regime closed...

In today’s world, defined by unprecedented reliance on constantly evolving technology, an understanding of security is crucial to...

Judge Merrick Garland’s nomination to the US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in 1997 encountered similar obstacles to the ones he...

On July 31, 2009, American journalist Sarah Shourd was hiking in Northern Iraq with friends when she was captured by Iranian soldiers and...

Gun violence takes 30,000 American lives a year, while our nation’s political progress on the issue remains in a troubling state of...

In a city where over 58,000 homeless people roam the streets, it’s strange that Mayor Bill de Blasio has supported allocating $25 million...

While whirring technological progress drives the US economy, the technological progress in our streets is a little more stop-and-go. In...

Images of protestors standing at a picket line demanding the protection of workers’ rights characterized the American labor movement....

As politicians continue the battle against gambling addiction by regulating casinos and online poker, a new mobile gaming addiction has...

The December 2015 San Bernardino terrorist attack, which claimed the lives of 14 people, sparked furious debate about gun violence and...

In the world of GOP politics, the issues of border security and immigration have fused together: If the border isn’t secured then any...

James Monteiro was a normal kid. He liked building forts out of old wood and going on bike rides. His favorite cereal was Sugar Smacks....

In December of 2015, Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced that the New Year would bring an end to restrictions on women in the US...

On February 13, 2016, the United States legal realm lost an influential and revered icon. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s...

Edward Snowden’s revelation that the US government was spying on millions of communications between civilians sent shock waves through...

Due to a 1996 piece of legislation, the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA), stories like Valdez’s are...

Eleven states have laws that require police departments to sell all confiscated weapons. Some sell to licensed dealers, others put them...