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If President Joe Biden follows through on his promise to nominate a Black woman to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, longer-term change to the court is possible, based on voting patterns of Black female judges versus white male judges, suggests new research from Washington University in St. Louis.The study, “Replacing Justice Breyer,” suggests that in the near term, the court’s center of power is unlikely to shift to the left, given that the list of possible Biden nominees is ideologically close to Breyer.

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After months of anticipation, failed negotiations and broken promises, Russia launched a wide-scale military attack on Ukraine on Thursday, Feb. 24.Yet questions remain regarding Vladimir Putin’s motivation. Is he concerned about Western influence in neighboring Ukraine raising security concerns at home? Does he want to take over Ukraine? Is he deflecting attention from Russia’s domestic problems?“Some combination of these is surely part of the answer, but another little-discussed factor is also at work,” James Wertsch wrote in an op-ed published Feb.

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Expert sources for your Ukraine-Russia conflict stories

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The claim that "Russia, throughout all of its history, has never attacked anyone" is false.

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The most common demands of the 140,000 striking American workers in 2021 involved health and safety protocols, pay and health care benefits, according to a new report from the Cornell University ILR Labor Action Tracker 2021.

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With the number of mass killings by firearms rapidly increasing from 270 in 2014 to 693 in 2021, President Biden recently called for the reinstatement of the federal assault weapons ban as a way to curtail gun violence. But how effective are weapons bans and will the market comply with them?

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Top officials from the White House and the U.S. Department of Energy visited the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory recently to discuss how to accelerate the development of fusion energy as a clean, abundant, and safe way to generate electricity.

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Former New York State Court of Appeals Associate Judge Leslie Stein is available to speak about the recent procedural developments in Sarah Palin's defamation suit against New York Times.

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With tensions continuing to grow between Ukraine and Russia, the United States is sending thousands of troops abroad to bolster its NATO allies against the threat. But Ukraine isn’t a member of NATO, and President Joe Biden said he won’t send troops to the besieged country.

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A study led by researchers at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School found a surprising misalignment between the tax subsidies received by nonprofit hospitals in the United States and the community benefit that these hospitals provide.

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Conservative activist Charlie Kirk suggested that COVID-19 vaccines are contributing to higher mortality rates in the U.S. over the last few years.

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New research from Washington University in St. Louis is shedding light on how slant — the extremeness of the message — and consistency with the candidate’s primary campaign messaging in national television advertisements affected voter behavior during the 2016 presidential election.

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A new book by Binghamton University's Kerry Whigham explores the enduring impacts of genocidal violence and the varied ways in which states and grassroots activists respond to it in order to bring about social and political transformation.

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Russia’s threats to Ukraine not only endanger the lives of Ukrainian citizens, but also the system that has supported European security since the end of World War II, according to Erik Herron, Eberly Family Professor of Political Science at West Virginia University.

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Today President Joe Biden announced a relaunch of the White House Cancer Moonshot with a goal of cutting the cancer death rate in half within 25 years.

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The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) issued a statement from ASTRO Board of Directors Chair Laura A. Dawson, MD, FASTRO, in response to today's announcement that President Joe Biden will reignite the Cancer Moonshot initiative to accelerate the rate of progress in the nation's fight against cancer.

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For several hours on Monday, January 31, 2022, a misleading article from news agency Reuters lead to many readers sharing the report on social media as conclusive evidence of ivermectin’s effectiveness against COVID-19, and proof of the alleged conspiracy of suppressed research to blame for the anti-parasite drug’s current lack of approval by the United States Food & Drug Administration.

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By: Mark Blackwell Thomas | Published: February 1, 2022 | 8:44 am | SHARE: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement announcement leaves a vacancy on the nation’s highest court. Recent appointments to the court have been met with political controversy and become the subject of broader cultural and political debates.

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