A request for sensitive voter information by the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity is garnering backlash from civil rights advocacy groups, governors and state secretaries. (Pictured: A 2014 march for voter protections.)

U.S. media is focusing on the president’s provocations rather than on important issues like tax cuts, climate change and health care. (Pictured: Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough on MSNBC.)

The American statement that Syrian President Bashar Assad (pictured) is preparing to use poison gas could have dire consequences.

There are so many wars and war rumors involving America these days that it’s starting to feel a little unreal, even for the most devoted of news watchers.

Any viable attempt at developing democratic politics must address the role of education and civic literacy as central to politics itself.

The Times belatedly rejects the much-repeated claim that all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies agreed that Russia hacked into and distributed Democratic Party emails.

Charges against Cardinal George Pell mark the first time a criminal case related to the Catholic Church’s pervasive abuse scandal has reached the Vatican’s innermost circles.

“The science is showing us that if you lack health insurance ... people die earlier as a result,” says Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program.

Programs help sexual assault survivors confront a tangle of law enforcement, medical and legal proceedings. (Pictured, part of a webpage of a nonprofit group that reports and records sexual assaults.)

Fifty years after the Glassboro Summit between President Johnson (pictured right) and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin, we should question the wisdom of leaders averse to any U.S.-Russia detente.