Molly Hennessy-Fiske of the Los Angeles Times wrote “I’ve covered protests involving police in Ferguson, Mo., Baton Rouge, La., Dallas and Los Angeles. I’ve also covered the U.S. military in war...

Harper’s Magazine once estimated that slaves were forced to do a quarter billion hours of free labor valued at around $97 trillion.

Here is just a sampling of the thousands of videos uploaded to social media over the weekend where cops can clearly be seen unnecessarily escalating situations entirely on their own.

Team Trump’s inability to get the Ukraine allegations to stick, or to successfully paint Biden as “China’s puppet,” or the early vagaries of so-called “Obamagate” proves that the 2016 strategy that...

It is highly illegal for members of Congress to trade stocks on non-public information gleaned through their classified briefings, and the outline of what is known about Loeffler’s market activity...

If this burgeoning left-center alliance extends past this one issue, it could dramatically reorient how governance gets done in the Democratic House for as long as the party holds a majority.

Fisher Sand and Gravel, a North Dakota construction firm that has been repeatedly lauded by President Trump in meetings with border officials and military commanders, has been awarded the largest...

The president has historically used these rallies to fire up his base and influence the media’s coverage of him.

Biden said to MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell, “It is not something the president is entitled to do, to direct a prosecution or decide to drop a case. It's a dereliction of duty.”

An amendment added by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., that would have required the Justice Department to show probable cause before collecting data under the Patriot Act...

NYU’s analysis found that compared with a rival test, the one developed by Abbott Laboratories missed at least a third of positive coronavirus cases and as much as 48% when compared to the dry...

In yet another signal that the 2020 campaign will not be filled with the type of acrimony that characterized the 2016 campaign, this task force is co-chaired by multiple progressives who supported...

While the anti-lockdown protests have received much attention in the media, there is virtually no evidence that support for them is widespread.

A new survey from Oxford University of over 200 economists and economic officials finds that the impending plans from governments across the world to stimulate their economies in the face of the...

Over 1,900 Department of Justice alumni signed a statement excoriating Attorney General William Barr for “assaulting the rule of law” by moving to dismiss the case against President Trump’s former...

A chorus of experts have repeatedly raised the alarm about glass shortages and the immense logistical challenges of scaling up efforts to distribute a coronavirus vaccine once it is completed.

Amid reports of “frenzied” lobbying around the historic trillion-dollar stimulus bills passed out of Congress came a seemingly anodyne anecdote from Roll Call’s reporting on the next stimulus bill...

Theoretically, the delegates already won by Biden could vote for a different nominee at the Democratic National Convention even if Biden coasts into it fully healthy and unopposed.

Of the job losses reported today, just 2 million were permanent while 18.1 million unemployed persons reported being temporarily laid-off.

The Supreme Court found that "wrongdoing" was perpetrated by allies of former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie in the 2013 "Bridgegate" scandal, but asserted that "federal fraud statutes at issue...