The Supreme Court has upheld health insurance subsidies for states using the federal marketplace. Experts weigh in on what the decision means.
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Justice Scalia once again failed to win over either Justice Kennedy or Chief Justice Roberts, revealing he is losing the war over the Supreme Court’s heart.
With an increasing percentage of adjunct faculty, tenure and academic freedom are way more complex and nuanced than we realize.
People shouldn’t let these tricky puzzlers reinforce their misguided notion that they stink at math.
For some people receiving SNAP benefits, real luxury would be a kitchen in which to cook.
The fight over fast-track that pitted the president against his own party offers reasons for both pessimism and optimism in future trade deals.
The South shall rise again – but not on Texas car bumpers. A look at the Supreme Court’s nix on adding Confederate flags to Texas vanity license plates
What does it mean for any president, much less a black one, to use such a word?
Two recent Supreme Court cases on free speech might appear to be at odds with each other, but not if you examine the nuances of the court’s decisions
Other ‘advanced nations’ make it far harder for someone like the Charleston killer to get his hands on a Glock semiautomatic handgun or any other kind of firearm.
Do academics need to change the way they teach race? What is the impact of students having been socialized to believe that “race doesn’t matter”?
Alexander Hamilton’s story is our story. It would be a mistake to remove him from the $10 bill.
If the Supreme Court ends subsidies for the federal exchange, affected states could just establish their own exchanges, right? It’s a little more complicated than that.
As California enters another hot dry summer, policymakers from water and electric utilities are looking at ways to preserve these interdependent resources.
Does the Confederate flag tell African American citizens that they are inferior? And if so, does that violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment?
If Americans are hiding behind the explosion of diversity to avoid looking at racism, what can universities do about it? A lot.
Historically, Republican politicians have subtly – and not-so-subtly – exploited racial fears.
The pope’s encyclical on ecology addresses all individuals who want to live with integrity – and their ability to take personal actions on global problems.
The more than 80-year-old credit agency is set to expire at the end of the month if Congress does not act to keep the profitable bank alive.
Rooftop solar power is exploding in the US but some scientists are pursuing a radically different route in renewable energy: storing solar energy as a liquid fuel.
In some ways, it’s spot-on. In others, not so much.
About 10% of human-generated greenhouse gas emissions come from farming. Researchers are working on ways to address this piece of the global warming puzzle.
Female faculty are far more likely to be seen as less smart than their male counterparts in student evaluations. How damaging are such comments?
Syrians are the single largest group of displaced people in the world. How to make sure that the plight of these refugees doesn’t fuel future conflicts?
A California commission ruled that an Uber driver is an employee, not a contractor, but the decision will do little to resolve the murky legal issue.