Following Justice Antonin Scalia’s death on February 13, a former criminal investigator for Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department named William O. Ritchie took to Facebook.

“My gut tells me there is...

The Republican establishment’s nightmare scenario got one step closer to fruition in South Carolina on Saturday night.

Donald Trump won the South Carolina GOP primary in decisive fashion, carrying one-third of the vote in one of the most conservative states in the country. Florida Senator Marco Rubio and Texas Senator Ted Cruz lagged far...

A liberal tidal wave is building within the Democratic Party, but Bernie Sanders is no longer the only candidate riding it.

Hillary Clinton’s crucial victory in the Nevada Caucuses on Saturday showed that Sanders does not have a monopoly on liberal voters. Clinton held her own with liberals while winning big among moderates. In the process,...

Saturday’s Republican primary in South Carolina looks likely to boost the state’s reputation as a hard-fought political battleground.

The best description of Palmetto State politics came from James L. Petigru, a politician who in 1860 declared that “South Carolina is too small to be a republic, and too large to be an insane...

Editor’s note: University of Oregon geography professor Peter Walker has just returned from Harney County, Oregon, where armed occupiers took over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. He spent several weeks attending community meetings and watching the events unfold, which he describes here.

On January 2, 2016, some 300 local citizens and...

The physics world erupted in celebration this month with the confirmed discovery of gravitational waves by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) group. Predicted by Einstein a century ago, the discovery verifies his description of...

During Pope Francis' recent tour of Mexico, he denounced the country’s illicit drug trade, while calling for social programs to lift up the poor.

One thing he didn’t explicitly touch on: the precarious situation Mexican journalists find themselves in. In fact, on February 9 – four days before the pope’s arrival – the...

Last week, President Barack Obama sent his 2017 budget to Congress, and – as is typical when government is divided – leading members of the other party declared it “dead on arrival.”

This time, however, they went a step further with the decision by the Senate and House Budget Committees to not hear testimony from the...

A shirtless man, his back toward the camera, stands before a beige wall, a scabbed abrasion on his left shoulder blade and a small ruler affixed to his skin, for scale.

Scraped knees, swollen ankles, grainy black and white collages of unnamed men, sitting, crouching, kneeling, in various phases of capture and confinement.

This is what transparency...

Between 1980 and 2010, the number of women in prison in the United States increased by 646 percent, going from 15,000 women to 113,000. Although accurate statistics are hard to obtain, it’s estimated...