School funding in Pennsylvania is so unequal that the state nearly turned its entire tax system upside down trying to fix the situation...

Waves of protests on college campuses across the United States have opened urgent conversations about the presence of racism in higher...

This spring, the Supreme Court will hear its first major abortion case since 2007. The case was brought by several abortion providers and...

Thecase centered on Dr. Mimi C. Lee and Stephen Findley, her ex-husband. Before their wedding, Lee was diagnosed with breast cancer and...

Shia LaBeouf, erstwhile child movie star of Even Stevens and Transformers fame, surprised the internet with a performance art piece...

After more than four years of violence, the Syrian Civil War is as much of a proxy struggle between major international actors as it is...

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

In June of 2015, when the Supreme Court finally legalized same-sex marriage, many activists began celebrating the end of the culture...

Though more than 60 years have passed since the Supreme Court decided Brown v. Board of Education, many school districts are still...

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famed novel, The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway proclaims to Jay Gatsby, “’You can’t repeat the past.” Gatsby...

The 2015 United Nations Conference on Climate Change, or COP 21, begins on December 7th in Paris.  The Paris Agreement  already promises...

On November 1, 2014, Brittany Maynard ingested lethal medication to commit physician-assisted suicide (PAS). Her decision to take her own...

On November 7, as China’s President Xi Jinping and Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou met, the two men were left in a somewhat uncomfortable...

In 2011, James Pittman, a gay man from Missouri, was fired from his position at Cook Paper Recycling Corporation. He sued the company,...

This past summer, President Barack Obama ventured into new political territory with his visit to the El Reno prison in Oklahoma, which...

With the eyes of the world trained on the Syrian conflict and its fallout, another refugee crisis has gone relatively unnoticed....

The media now drops the term “dynastic politics” almost as frequently as they mention Trump’s toupee. The January edition of the New York...

It was late November at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. The presidents of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and...

Supreme Court Justices, of all the prominent federal officials, have long been shielded from the celebrity that can accompany successful...

On October 29, the European Parliament voted on a resolution encouraging member states to offer asylum to Edward Snowden, the former...