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White Americans, especially older citizens, tend to be more bothered than Black Americans or Latinos by demonstrators waving Mexican flags - and even US flags - during protests.

SCOTUS decision in Mahmoud v. Taylor, one of its blockbuster cases from 2025, largely rested on two parental rights cases from 1925 and 1972.

Adriana Smith's body was kept on life support for 16 weeks so her fetus could gestate. Abortion politics don't capture the ethical complexities of such situations.

Many of the apps and social media platforms you use every day may not charge you money, but often there is a price to pay - your privacy.

Iran has a long history of enriching uranium in an effort to develop nuclear weapons. It's not clear how far the US attack set back Iran's production of bomb-grade uranium.

Democratic governors and President Donald Trump agree to fight an invasion of non-native fish that has spread up the Mississippi River and threatens the Great Lakes.

One hundred years after the Scopes trial, the culture war over evolution and creationism remains intense.

The US and other countries have a legal definition of citizenship, yet human psychology and identity politics result in ingrained biases over who truly belongs.

Even though research supports the change, most cities have been slow to ban left turns at even the most congested intersections.

A scholar and former college dean explains why higher education's reliance on majors to measure academic quality may be an outdated approach.