Groups like al-Nusra are turning to charity stunts and service provision to ensure they have a loyal following even after Assad.

New reminders of the consequences—big and small—of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

In a pair of rulings on partisan gerrymandering and the census, Chief Justice John Roberts enshrined the nation’s modern form of winner-take-all politics into law.

Opponents of same-sex unions try to convince the Supreme Court that the state has no interest in "love and commitment."

I thought I was writing fiction in The Handmaid’s Tale.

There are limits to the conservative theories that a majority of the justices are willing to endorse.

Last week, the justices set a grim precedent for civil rights.

Twenty-one children brought a lawsuit arguing that the government needs to act on climate change. A federal court dismissed it.