U.S. Politics & Government

Erica Garner, the daughter of Eric Garner leads a chant at a protest and candlelight vigil outside the 120th police precinct in the Staten Island borough of New York City, January 15, 2015. Protests were organized to coincide with Martin Luther King Jr's birthday and have been ongoing in New York since last year's shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner's chokehold death in Staten Island, New York. Both deaths were at the hands of local police forces and in both instances, charges were not laid for the deaths. REUTERS/Mike Segar (UNITED STATES - Tags: CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST)

The collateral consequences of state-sanctioned police violence for women

Alyasah Ali Sewell and Rashawn Ray

Thursday, June 11, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable discussion with law enforcement in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., June 8, 2020. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Presidential job approval: Trump’s re-election prospects look bleak

William A. Galston

Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Demonstrators smash down a door of the Jalisco State Government Palace during a protest to demand justice for Giovanni Lopez, a construction worker who died after being arrested for not wearing a face mask in public, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Guadalajara, Mexico June 4, 2020. REUTERS/Fernando Carranza TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Hatred and police brutality in the U.S. and lessons for Mexico

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Monday, June 8, 2020

This aerial picture shows the Washington Monument standing on the National Mall and the White House at far left in Washington, U.S., June 8, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts - RC1C9C4C2D70

How the Constitution’s federalist framework is being tested by COVID-19

Monday, June 8, 2020

June, 7 2020, Boston, Massachusetts, USA: Protesters rally in response to deaths of George Floyd and against police brutality and racism in in Boston, Massachusetts. No Use China. No Use Taiwan. No Use Korea. No Use Japan.

The nation’s racial justice protests are a pivotal moment for millennials and Gen Z

William H. Frey

June 9, 2020

Flames rise near trees during a wildfire dubbed the Cave Fire burning in the hills of Santa Barbara, California, U.S., November 26, 2019. REUTERS/David McNew

Play the game: A president’s climate quandary

Monday, June 8, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump walks through Lafayette Park to visit St. John's Episcopal Church across from the White House during ongoing protests over racial inequality in the wake of the death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody, at the White House in Washington, U.S., June 1, 2020. REUTERS/Tom Brenner TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

The battle of Lafayette Square and the undermining of American democracy

Saturday, June 6, 2020

Protestors march against the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd in lower Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S., June 4, 2020. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

Where would racial progress in policing be without camera phones?

Nicol Turner Lee

Friday, June 5, 2020

DC National Guard Military Police officers stand guard behind a fence surrounding Lafayette Park outside the White House as protests continue over the death in police custody of George Floyd, in Washington, U.S., June 2, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Donald Trump does not hate protests—he hates dissent

Friday, June 5, 2020

A White House staff member gestures to move the press corps back as U.S. President Donald Trump walks between lines of riot police for a photo opportunity at St John's Church during ongoing protests over racial inequality in the wake of the death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody, near the White House in Washington, U.S., June 1, 2020. REUTERS/Tom Brenner

We’ve now entered the final phase of the Trump era

Thursday, June 4, 2020