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Qatar has used its wealth to adopt policies sometimes rivaling Saudi Arabia’s. Think, for example, of the popular Al-Jazeera. Now the Saudis seem determined to limit Qatari influence as much as possible.
Emmanuel Macron may have won the presidential election, but his agenda could fail if his party doesn’t get a majority in Parliament.
An expert explains that such claims are probably more calculated and careful than you’d expect.
Who is responsible for this problem? Research indicates that it’s often the victims’ own colleagues, and that aid agencies don’t do enough to stop it.
The Supreme Court may soon hear a case on data-driven criminal sentencing. Research suggests that algorithms are not as good as we think they are at making these decisions.
The University of Michigan’s Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Heather Ann Thompson explains why Americans must demand better access to the nation’s prisons.
For more than seven decades, US presidents have encouraged peace in Europe. Trump seems eager to toss that legacy aside. Here’s what is at stake.
Research on how black people try to avoid racism in their daily lives shows that following white, mainstream standards can have mixed results.
Cyntoia Brown was just 16 years old when she shot and killed a man in 2004. Under Tennessee law, she won’t be eligible for parole until she is 67 years old. Is such a harsh sentence constitutional?
American presidents have spent a great deal of time proclaiming US leadership of the global system. The decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement undermines much of what they have said.
Who are those people out there marching on Washington, DC? Researchers at the University of Maryland did a survey to find out.
For-profit corporations are deeply embedded in US national security infrastructure – and they’re not going anywhere.
Teach for America was created to bring more resources to disadvantaged communities. New research shows that the participants also learn a few things.
At society’s margins, people without access to the mainstream job economy are able to carve out lives rich in other resources and community.
Research reveals few differences between the parenting of gay men and their straight peers. But it looks like gay fathers could be more apt to volunteer at their children’s schools.
Jeff Sessions wants prosecutors to ‘charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense.’ That’s a step back to our failed experiment in mass incarceration.
The United States is seeing an uptick in far-right extremist violence. It’s time to pay more attention to this scourge and its causes.
Candidate Donald Trump called NATO ‘obsolete.’ Since becoming president he has reversed that view, but what he said – and didn’t say – during his recent visit will not have put NATO leaders at ease.
Homelessness among veterans overall is on the decline. But researchers see an increasing number of homeless vets who are single mothers or supporting young families.
We asked an expert on diplomacy and foreign policy.
The race pitted a singing cowboy against a millionaire software entrepreneur – and it got ugly at the end.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy consistently ranks as one of America’s most popular leaders. A presidential historian argues that didn’t just happen – it was the result of an effort to create an image.
In past wars, taxes were increased to cover some of the extra spending. That’s not the case for the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the costs are adding up fast.
A linguistics scholar explains why the loss of Arabic in Israel would be a loss of history, culture and possibly human rights.