The latest survey results from the political science research project Bright Line Watch are in: US democracy gets just 61 out of 100.

Getting the US census count right has never been easy. COVID-19 is just one thing that makes this year's task even more challenging.

With a potential TikTok ban looming in the US, what happens if you use the app after the ban? It could put you at legal risk, experts say.

President Trump wants to ban TikTok, the popular video app, due to security concerns. But can the government totally ban an app like that?

"...measuring the impact of stay-at-home orders on epidemic growth offers evidence for current and future COVID-19 control and containment measures."

By curtailing deforestation and wildlife trafficking across the globe, governments could help prevent the rise of the next worldwide pandemic.

"We are taking on the belief that money is to blame for all that ails American politics. The reality is very different. Money does not buy elections..."

"What went wrong? The answer is: Almost everything went wrong, and almost everything that did go wrong had been foretold."

We tend to interpret "all men are created equal" in the Declaration of Independence to mean individual equality. That's not right, says historian Jack Rakove.

For decades, the FBI kept tabs Black writers, artists, and activists, with agents reading their work closely and even creating their own misleading works.