California is spending $187 million to persuade its residents to complete the 2020 census. Texas isn't spending a cent. There's a reason for the difference.

Matt Bevin pardoned or commuted more than 400 people as he left office this week in Kentucky, prompting state lawmakers to call for an investigation

Federal prosecutors are investigating human experimentation on hydration and sexual arousal at a state-run facility in Iowa

“My work is very much an inquiry into the history of the representation of the black figure, not only specifically in photography, but also in the history of art,” Mr. Edmonds says about his recent work.

A judge in Wisconsin, a key state in the 2020 election, orders some 200,000 names removed from voting rolls. What could that mean for the presidential race?

"Why wouldn’t you want Jewish students to feel safe?": Undergraduates debate Trump’s executive order targeting anti-Semitism on college campuses.

Artist John Edmonds discusses five of his recent works that incorporate African art objects and explore representations of the black body.

The “O.K.” symbol can be seen everywhere, from emojis to yoga. But what was once a simple gesture has increasingly become a politically charged signal of white nationalist trolling subculture.

Twenty-six states are spending a total of $340 million or more on nagging their residents to fill out forms in next year's census. Twenty-four states aren't spending a cent. Why there's such a gap may (or may not) surprise you.

Before the Boston Marathon bombing trial, a restaurant manager who was chosen as forewoman of the jury had tweeted or retweeted 22 posts about the bombing, including one that described Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as “a piece of garbage,” his lawyers say