In recent years, particularly in the House, publicly held committee hearings and votes have become pro forma. Real decisions ...

Appalachia exists as much in myth as in literal geography. At the close of his RNC speech accepting his party’s nomination ...

Analysis by the Congressional Budget Office released this week showed the GOP's budget goals could not be reached without reducing Medicaid spending.

The Independent’s map shines a light on where the tens of thousands are being detained in ICE facilities across the U.S., ...

There are 15 states that have protected abortion rights, while 10 have expanded access to abortion, according to data on the Center for Reproductive Rights.

For decades, Republican lawmakers and industry lobbyists have tried to chip away at the small program in the Environmental ...

Known today as the “Black Belt,” the southeastern United States was once covered by an ancient sea—one that continues to ...

Television host Stephen Colbert had made it a bit of political satire nearly 15 years earlier. A Democratic lawmaker in Mississippi had filed legislation ... The president loved it, so they printed ...

Google has found itself back in the crosshairs of a geopolitical battle over President Trump’s renaming of the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, raising fresh questions over the role technology ...

Two bills in Congress would prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from using hundreds of chemical assessments ...

The United States and Google and Apple have officially updated maps to the Gulf of America ... Oldest drug store in Mississippi makes Southern Living list of most iconic ice cream shops ...