The historic number of women and people of color, most of whom were Democrats, elected to Congress was one of the biggest stories to come...

On December 18, 2018, Congress passed the Formerly Incarcerated Reenter Society Transformed Safely Transitioning Each Person Act. As the...

“You have the right to remain silent… You have the right to an attorney… If you cannot afford one, one will be provided for you at no...

A gun-toting, foul-mouthed, lethal-force-authorized U.S. Border Patrol, a President who’s rally cry is fear-mongering xenophobia, a plan...

In the 1976 case of United States. V. Martinez-Fuerte, the Supreme Court ruled that interior checkpoints did not violate the Fourth...

A few days before the Senate narrowly voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, President Donald Trump remarked that “it’s a...

A public showdown. Two empty chambers. A fortune at stake. It’s not a wild west movie—it’s the escalation of political tensions that...

Wilbur Ross, the United States Secretary of Commerce, has come under fire for callously stating that federal workers struggling to pay...

As 2020 approaches, demographers studying the  US electorate have identified a significant development since 2016: the coming of age of...

Up to 40 percent of the food produced in the United States is never eaten. At the same time, one in every eight Americans struggles to...

In the age of 24-hour news cycles, media companies seek increasingly appalling and shocking images to captivate the attention of viewers....

For Elsie Herring, time spent outdoors is strictly determined by the industrial hog farm hidden just behind the trees that line her...

On an April evening earlier this year, women wearing scarlet cloaks filed into the Rhode Island State House, oversized bonnets obscuring...

In September 2017, the Supreme Court of California heard a case from Peter Arellano, a Los Angeles local who was legally barred from...

Hours after becoming the Harvard Law Review’s first Black president, a young Barack Obama was presented with more good news: Abner Mikva,...

On October 10, 2017, United States Soccer hit a stunning low point. Needing only a draw to advance to the 2018 World Cup, the men’s...

The elderly vote is powerful, persistent, and dependable. It has been so for decades, and will continue to be in the foreseeable future....

Fresh off a narrow victory in his 1928 reelection campaign, Congressman Ralph Lozier should have been in good spirits. However, the...

A key component of the 2008 Great Recession, which cost the average American over $70,000, was the complexity of banking that former...

Out in the middle of the South China Sea, several islands now exist where none did before. What were once simple reefs and shoals are now...