justice system

A new study of thousands links right-wing authoritarian attitudes and feeling one’s life is more meaningful.

The technology is poised to change how many companies operate.

Through calculated use of gossip, women, non-citizens, or slaves wielded a potent weapon against those who wronged them.

Climate change is a dire threat, perhaps it is time to put the people who created and denied the problem on trial?

The legacy of Felix Dzerzhinsky, who led Soviet secret police in the “Red Terror,” still confounds Russia.

The history of the Geneva Conventions tells us how the international community draws the line on brutality.

Bishop Jahwar saw first-hand that prison often doesn’t work as intended.

Meditation with a mystical edge? Don’t knock magick ’til you’ve tried it.

Her husband died in 2009 of the disease.

Wray said the investigation was “limited in scope” and “followed standard procedures,” though he seemed to sidestep repeated questions about the involvement of the White House in determining the scope of the investigation.

America’s #1 problem? It’s gone from “We the people” to “We the shareholders”. Can capitalism be better than this?

Kayne West’s tweet that the United States should amend the 13th Amendment brought renewed attention to a flaw in its language.

With the death of Markeis McGlockton, the debate over stand your ground laws has reignited. Proponents believe they make us safe, while opponents claim they encourage vigilantism. While a consensus may be inconclusive, studies suggest such laws aren’t as effective as their drafters intended.

“Anarchy” is often used as a synonym for chaos. Does the historical record match up with that? 

Reviving the “Lesbian Rule” (which Aristotle wrote about, and was proverbial in Shakespeare’s day) can help us handle a new kind of weaponized-math threat (that Cathy O’Neil calls “Weapons of Math Destruction”).