By Yidi Wu Seven months after the Sandy Hook shootings in Newtown, CT, Obama encouraged citizens to speak up – not just about gun...

By Ian Tarr On March 3, 2005, Albert Florence’s wife was driving her husband and their child down a New Jersey road. Unexpectedly, the...

Though climate change reform is the charge of the Democratic Party, the organization has allocated a disappointing amount of energy to...

NPR’s consistently excellent Planet Money podcast had a story this week, titled “The Town That Loves Death,” about La Crosse, Wisconsin....

When “An Inconvenient Truth” came out in 2006, introducing the severity of climate change to a mass audience, it seemed like the new buzz...

Hello readers, and welcome to the coldest March that I’ve experienced in some time. The federal government was closed on Monday because...

Increased citizen participation in government processes is a good thing – most of the time. Citizens interacting with the executive...

The Sochi Games have closed, and I am sure many citizens of Russia are wondering: was it worth it? The Olympics are expensive and...

When Chief Justice of the Supreme Court William Rehnquist’s gavel struck in Bush v. Gore, the United States went into uproar. The court...

On his first day in office in January 2009, President Obama promulgated a number of executive orders that fulfilled various campaign...

Last week, Harvard Law School hosted a conference titled Reconsidering the Insular Cases, focusing on the controversial Supreme Court...

A recent episode of WBUR radio’s On Point with Tom Ashbrook discussed a major new policy debate: can big food be sued in the way big...

How much does it cost to win a gubernatorial election? Or to kick out an incumbent Republican Senator? How much does it cost to save the...

Hello, readers! Just a short update this week as we wait for the Supreme Court to hear more cases. First, in case you missed the breaking...

On Monday, former Senator Olympia Snowe visited Brown to deliver a lecture titled “Bridging the Divide: What Hyper Partisanship means for...

Since I first wrote about the U.S. government’s (“USG”) bulk collection of telephony metadata in September, public understanding of the...

On Monday, Judge Bruce Selya spoke at the Watson Institute in an event titled “The View from Inside the FISA Courts.” Selya is a federal...

Hello, readers! The Supreme Court is on a bit of a break right now, as justices work on opinions and prepare for new oral arguments that...

In Greensboro, NC there is a day center for the homeless called the Interactive Resource Center. The IRC assists people who are homeless...

One morning last month, Rhode Islanders woke up to the news that the National Rifle Association had been charged with the second-largest...