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Thirty years after the Supreme Court decision Gregg v. Georgia effectively reinstated capital punishment in the United States, the national debate of whether to abolish, reform, maintain, or expand use of the death penalty continues to divide justices and judges, legislators and citizens. Kansas v. Marsh, the recent, bitterly divided, 5-4 Supreme Court decision upholding Kansas’ death penalty

For those of us who spend far too much time following the news these days, it is easy to feel that everything is falling apart. Regardless of your political ideology, there is no doubt that this country is politically divided and facing serious challenges. To make matters worse, we are entering an election season. Politicians will be trying their best to convince us that we are one vote away

White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway says she has had a "humbling" experience these past four years in the Trump administration, but she's ready to move on. On Sunday night, Conway made the surprise announcement that she's leaving the White House at the end of August, to make more time for family.

Conway started as then-candidate Donald Trump's campaign manager in 2016, becoming

The death of a black man at the hands of white police officers has sparked days of civil unrest in the United States. Those sparks have landed in a tinderbox assembled over decades of economic inequality, now made worse by the coronavirus pandemic.

Minneapolis police officers initially confronted the man — George Floyd — on suspicion that he'd used a counterfeit $20 bill to buy