Escalating rents and home prices have created invisible walls around communities all over the United States.

Why do we use violence to solve violence?

“We need to have a national debate on these things; it’s not a decision for the president to make in the dead of night.”

Republican senators invoking the “nuclear option” to confirm Justice Gorsuch is a new development. But contention over the court and the filibuster has a long history.

The strikes hit the government-controlled Shayrat air base in central Syria, where U.S. officials say the Syrian military planes that dropped the chemicals had taken off.

The U-turn on environmental policies comes as evidence mounts that climate change has already caused significant damage, from killing large sections of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef to causing severe drought in Africa.