When asked about powerful lobbying organizations, state lawmakers across the country often don’t point to the NRA; instead, they refer to...

Americans are fat, and getting fatter. According to the American Heart Association, 78 million adults and 13 million children in the...

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

Shamar El-Shabazz works at a Burger King in Delaware for the state minimum wage of $8.25 per hour. At 50 years old, he lives in a...

By 2060, 115 percent more Americans will be of Hispanic origin than in 2015. Consequently, pundits identify “the Hispanic vote” as the...

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...

Over the past six years, the Obama Administration has drawn government attention and funding toward the problem of America’s food...

In 2013, 28 percent of Rhode Island’s 1800 foster children were living in congregate care institutions, group homes in which children do...

Technology permeates almost every aspect of our lives, and its influence on us is only expected to grow. Yet, computer science is...

Throughout history, a foundational divide in American politics has split the federal government. In the early days of the republic,...

Last November, Hillary Clinton declared that “Every survivor of sexual assault deserves to be heard, believed, and supported.” In...

Snapchat, the four-year-old picture messaging app, is having its moment in the 2016 election cycle. While the app has a solid track...

Recently at an MSNBC town hall, moderator Mika Brzezinski asked Donald Trump to identify the unnamed candidate she would go on to...

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

Once a symbol of human ingenuity and power over nature, the 79,000 dams scattered across America’s landscape are now falling into...

It is well known that social media has come to play an irrefutably large role in campaigning and politics. From Hillary Clinton and Jeb...

February 23 was an important day for New Yorkers, although many did not know it. On this day, the Landmarks Preservation Commission...

In the early 1930s, the rural Tennessee Valley region experienced a crisis extreme by even Depression-era standards: Malaria was running...

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...