Forced laborers lived in prison cells at one palm oil plantation in Indonesia. Kiki Cahyadi/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images September 29, 2022 UN slavery estimate raises question: Are 50 million people really enslaved today? Monti Datta, University of Richmond Global estimates of modern-day slavery by the United Nations reveal improving methods for calculating the data.
A same-sex marriage supporter waves a rainbow flag outside the Supreme Court in 2015. Drew Angerer/Getty Images August 2, 2022 Congress is considering making same-sex marriage federal law – a political scientist explains how this issue became less polarized over time Tim Lindberg, University of Minnesota The U.S. House of Representatives recently voted for a bill that would federally protect same-sex marriage – and 47 Republicans signed on, too. Same-sex marriage isn’t the partisan issue it once was.
Voters wait to cast their ballots Tuesday at Johnston Elementary School in the Wilkinsburg neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Jeff Swensen/Getty Images November 4, 2020 A Q&A with a historian of presidential polls W. Joseph Campbell, American University School of Communication An expert on the history of polling has a first take on how pollsters did this year.