Wages for typical workers lag far behind productivity growth. It hasn't always been this way and does not have to be this way. These 10 charts outline the historical context of workers’ wage trajector...

This piece reflects on 50 years since Portugal’s 1974 Carnation Revolution, seen as a trigger for the “third wave of democratization,” a global trend that transformed many dictatorships into democr...

GENEVA - UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk on Friday called on the United States to ensure that its migration policies and enforcement practices respect human dignity and due process rights, decrying ...

Minnesota residents took to the streets of downtown Minneapolis to protest the federal government's immigration campaign in the state, after weeks of sustained resistance in their communities. Businesses across the region closed in solidarity.

Many far-right groups across Europe, which aligned with Trump's MAGA movement in their fervent opposition to immigration, are suddenly in rebellion against an administration they once thought of as an...

Trump has halted immigration processing, expanded travel-ban rules, and launched reviews that could upend cases approved over the last four years.

The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States, Nature has found.

The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.

The link between educational attainment and attitudes towards out-groups stands out as one of the most consistent statistical associations in the social and political sciences. However, a recent anal...

California and a coalition of 17 other states have backed a lawsuit calling for an end to unconstitutional immigration stops in Los Angeles.

Republicans have passed President Trump's One Big, Beautiful bill, but is it built on bad faith stereotypes? The legislation guts funding for Medicaid, and for a long time Republicans have been attack...

Abstract. Previous research has shown that parents often have strong ethnicity-related school preferences, and it has been suggested that these preferences

What's actually happening during the ICE sweeps and protests across Los Angeles.

Attacks on the university make clear that the administration will wield its power against anyone who incurs its displeasure

The mass cancellation of US federal grants marks yet another escalation in political interference in science, but there are ways to keep crucial research going.

The Trump administration has already wielded the “terrorist” label to stigmatize and strip rights from student activists and migrants.

The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings

These estimates, drawn from the location data of three billion Facebook users, provide a view of human migration in extraordinary detail.

Christopher Rufo has helped inspire Republican messaging and bills on hot-button issues.

An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.

Sixteen state attorneys general filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Friday over its cancellation of NIH research grants.

We talk to Gil Duran about what these tech elites – a group he calls “The Nerd Reich” – are reading, thinking and saying.

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency is poised to eliminate most websites tied to its research division under plans for the cancellation of a cloud web services contract, a move that could s...