In recent months, there have been near-daily reports of political violence in Jerusalem, the world's most hotly contested city. It is the 'volcanic...

The recent midterm elections cost $3.6 billion thanks to dark money groups and some key decisions by the Supreme Court to redefine “citizen” and “c...

As our definitions of masculinity and femininity shift, gender is no longer as strong a factor in pre-determining the structures of our lives, fami...

The Center for American Progress (CAP) released a new report this month that looks at the increasing reliance of public college students on student...

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to adopt a second E-rate modernization order, making further changes to t...

National Public Radio host Michelle Norris has run The Race Card Project for the past four years. Participants are asked to distill their “experien...

There’s a World Turtle Day. A Bubble Bath Day. And even a Talk Like Shakespeare Day. So about a year ago, Wendy Diamond found herself wondering: Wh...

Ellen Stofan, NASA’s chief scientist, saw her first rocket launch at age 4. Her father worked at NASA as an engineer, and the thrill of space explo...

Revolutions are messy, confusing, and brutal. Only afterwards are they recast into neat – and often flawed– narratives. Revolutions are less a test...

“How does revolution happen?” asked Janine Wedel. “Maybe it doesn’t,” mused Lawrence Lessig, evincing a mild case of political resignation that the...

The post-Snowden world is a little like a new parent suddenly worrying about the security of its baby…data. Governments, companies, and citizens al...

Too often, I find myself looking at this or that new map on the happiest places to live in the United States, the states with the most craft beer, ...

We all know that increasingly, Hispanic Americans are at the forefront of national conversations about politics, and not just in the context of the...

“Okay, Rebecca, it’s your turn to find the bomb.” That’s what Tech Sergeant Edward Canell at Buckley Air Force Base said to Rebecca Frankel, a jour...

In one short decade, the country of Colombia moved from being a failed state to almost being the opposite today. This incredible success story, tog...

While NASA's Orion test flight dominated space news last week, CCTV reported on big steps for China's space program. In a Tianjin rocket factory, t...

‘If you want to keep all those people productive and in the workforce, you have to make it possible. So the way to think about it is not ‘Can we af...

Click here to read the full ex parte document Re: Notice of Oral Ex Parte Presentation Protecting and Promoting the Open Internet, GN Docket Nos. 1...

The Senate report provides the fullest accounting so far of the exact sequence of intelligence breaks that led the CIA to determine that the courie...

CNN's Brian Todd reports on the battle for Kobani and new disturbing videos from ISIS.