Physician burnout—not Zika or Ebola—is the next big epidemic threatening our health care system. Doctors in the United States are more...

As the 2018 midterms loom large, many candidates and political organizations have worked tirelessly to get out the vote. Voting is the...

In 2006, Officer Eddie Boyd of the St. Louis Missouri Police Department had to resign after pistol-whipping a child and falsifying the...

In a given year, 4,224 people are killed by police brutality in Brazil (2016), 1,147 in the U.S. (2017), and 11 in Germany (2016). In...

Since the Cold War, global health and science has been dominated by the United States. In 2017, it spent $10.4 billion on global health,...

John Fetterman is Mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania, a town—near Pittsburgh—that once was home to Andrew Carnegie’s first steel mill and a...

The Middle East has been a key strategic area for centuries, with the Russian, British, Portuguese, French and Ottoman Empires all...

Before a crowd of some 23,000 assembled for the 2017 Farm Aid concert in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania—about twenty minutes south of...

This fall, wildfires have been dotting the United States. Cash-strapped state and federal agencies are desperately trying to combat the...

The United States announced on October 12th 2017 that it will withdraw from UNESCO at the end of 2018, because of claims deeming the...

America’s passenger rail is struggling. American rail is far slower, more expensive and less reliable than its global counterparts....

In the past few years, issues surrounding immigration, refugees, and displaced persons have proven to be ones transcending national...

On September 2, 2016, thousands of American pastors and across the country took to their pulpits as part of the annual “Pulpit Freedom...

In early September, the Twitter account of Texas Senator and former Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz “liked” a post containing...

From 2006 to 2016, deployments of US Special Operations Command units to Africa climbed by a staggering 1600 percent. This militarization...

On December 20, 1951, the United States switched on the first peaceful nuclear power reactor the world had ever seen: Experimental...

Changes in oil prices are concerning to many Americans, but for Alaskans these shifts take on a special meaning: the size of an annual...

By the late 1820s, London’s future seemed all but assured. The capital of a sprawling empire, it was the richest and most populous city...

On October 8, 2016, a U.S.-backed airstrike led by Saudi Arabia “wrongly” targeted a funeral ceremony in Sanaa, Yemen’s capital, killing...

On August 19, 1953, tragedy struck Tehran, Iran’s capital city. Democratically-elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh was overthrown...