On Oct. 17, roughly 100 people reportedly gathered in a conference room at a resort in Scottsdale, Ariz., for Q Con Live, an all-day event featuring speeches from some of…

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is leading a push for the world to scale up efforts to restore landscapes and forests over the next decade, with eyes on a target to salvage 350 million…

Advocates say it’s voter suppression on a national scale. The Marshall Project is a nonprofit newsroom covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Sign up to receive our newsletters. In June,…

Montana's Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock waited until just before the filing deadline in March to announce he would take on incumbent Republican Steve Daines in the race for Senate.  It…

( Correction : This story originally misstated the role of the National Guard in responding to the protests. While Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D) has authorized the Guard to deploy,…

America is unable to contain the surging pandemic because we refuse to reckon with the racial inequities that drive it. The concentration of over 223,000 US Covid-19 casualties in vulnerable…

Robert Roth on an anti-racist approach to high-school history Editor’s Note: In 1988, a teacher most commonly had 15 years of experience. In recent years, that number is closer to…

Jennifer McLeggan said her neighbors told her she could be "erased." When she called police in her suburban New York town, she said they told her to stop calling 911.…

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said on Wednesday freedom of expression should stop if it offends more than 1.5 billion people, following the display of images in France…

A rural North Carolina county is working to turn anger over police brutality into lasting change. On a sunny October afternoon, one day before the start of early voting, a…