As a reporter and fact-checker, I’ve examined this attack on our history closely. I’ve interviewed historians about how our ...

Before the summer of 1952, the 23-year-old private first class had never even taken part in a civil rights protest—but after ...

Host Al Letson visits Bryan Stevenson’s Montgomery, Alabama, memorials confronting slavery's legacy as the US turns 250.

In a surprise victory for voting rights, the Supreme Court on Monday upheld a Mississippi law allowing mail-in ballots to be ...

The Supreme Court dealt Big Brother a blow on Monday with a landmark ruling for digital privacy rights in Chatrie v. United ...

Chief Justice John Roberts famously promised that he would run the highest court like an impartial umpire calling balls and ...

This year, New York City first activated its heat emergency plan on May 19—the earliest it’s ever done so—due to a severe ...

The inside story of US-Iran negotiations—and what Israel did to them—from the National Security Council's former Iran ...

"All of a sudden you're in a position where you can have a huge influence for the rest of your life on the US government.” ...

Justice Brett Kavanaugh is “not only creating a bad precedent for trans people, he’s significantly lowering the protection ...

The National Park Service said that people should “remain indoors as much as possible” during and after the fireworks show.

Melat Kiros, a 29-year-old democratic socialist, has won the high-profile primary for Colorado’s first congressional district ...