The US Department of Justice (DOJ) reports 2.2 million people are in our nation’s jails and prisons and another 4.5 million people are on probation or parole…
Race and ethnicity in the United States Census
Exclusive: Politicians told they could view the current Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiating text if they signed a four-year confidentiality provision Demonstrators protest against the legislation to…
A new study from Princeton spells bad news for American democracy—namely, that it no longer exists. Asking "[w]ho really rules?" researchers Martin Gilens and Benjamin…
Did you know that 89 percent of all minimum wage workers in the United States are not teens? At this point, the average age of…
I have lived in poverty both as a child and as an adult, and I can say with full confidence that it is a life-crushing…
If one goes to Wikipedia under the subject of “mass racial violence in the United States,” one will find a “timeline of events” running from 1829 to…
The foreclosure crisis that drove approximately 9 million people across the United States from their homes disproportionately displaced black and Latino households and led to…
China has replaced Mexico as the top country of origin for immigrants to the United States, according to a new review of 2013 immigration data.…
The latest assault on human and civil rights in the United States has been quietly taking shape, but rather than media and public outcry, this…
In a recent column entitled “The Campus Climate Crusade,” The Wall Street Journal’s Kimberly Strassel spent over 800 words arguing the basic conceit of UnKochMyCampus, a campaign uniting…
It's not news that the United States is the incarceration capital of the world: The 2.4 million people behind bars in the U.S. today is,…
Did you play a musical instrument when you were growing up? Do you continue to play an instrument today? Neuroscientists continue to find evidence that musical…