Despite a widespread and growing consensus that child marriage should be banned, a majority of U.S. states still allow the practice.

After the Supreme Court appeared poised to weaken a key provision of the landmark civil rights law, both parties began to ...

Besides, America recently ran a very large natural experiment in dropping money on schools that, in a word, failed. During ...

Without intending to, Indiana Gov. Mike Braun and Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith just demonstrated much of what is wrong with American politics these days. The occasion for their object lesson was the ...

Congressional leaders continued to blame the other party for the U.S. government shutdown as President Donald Trump doubled down on his threats to use the stalemate, now in its ninth day, to make ...

Under the Trump administration, illegal crossings at the U.S. southern border decreased sharply in fiscal year 2025 to a level not seen since 1970, a new report finds. The numbers are attributed to ...

Over the last few weeks, many of us have found ourselves wading through two very different corners of social media. In one, people who normally stand against gun violence were openly celebrating a ...

The new American pope, Leo XIV, has somehow managed, in the four months since his election, to stay mostly out of the news. His predecessor, Pope Francis, had been committed to expanding the church’s ...

Donald Trump and his band of Republican brothers are exploiting the United States Government’s ongoing shutdown to its highest potential. After threatening to take away the jobs of several federal ...

President Donald Trump has determined that the US is in an “armed conflict” with the drug cartels his administration has designated as terrorist organizations, according to a notice the Pentagon ...

A federal judge disqualified Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Nevada Sigal Chattah from involvement in several cases. "Given the Court’s conclusion that Ms. Chattah is not validly serving as ...

Dear Eric: My bestie is a modern-day pen pal. That is to say I know him on only social media. But we’ve had so many fine chats over the last decade, until recently. He lives in another country, where ...