Supreme Court geofencing case weighs constitutionality of digital dragnets – and how far your rights go in the data Big Tech collects on you
Police got cellphone data for many people who happened to be in this area near the time of a bank robbery.AP Photo/Steve HelberGoogle tracks the vast majority of cellphones in the United States, colle...
Anne Toomey McKenna, Affiliated Faculty Member, Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, Penn State
Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Act ruling makes it harder to protect minority voting power and alters the landscape of future elections
President Lyndon Johnson hands a pen to civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the signing of the Voting Rights Act in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 6, 1965. Hulton Archive, Washington Bu...
Sam D. Hayes, Assistant professor of politics and policy, Simmons University
Students are taught to hide in closets and under tables if there is a school shooting – but does practicing for this possibility keep kids safe?
Most schools do lockdown drills, but there is not any federal guidance on the best approach to this practice. TW Farlow/iStock/Getty Images Plus There have been 63 school shootings – meaning any...
James Densley, Professor of Criminal Justice, Metropolitan State University
Can the nearly $1 trillion-a-year US military really be depleting key weapons in Iran?
The guided-missile destroyer USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. fires a Tomahawk missile during Operation Epi…
What courage is, how to build it and why you should take a risk
Courage demands that we evaluate an action's goals and risks.Elisa Schu/picture alliance via Getty I…
Thousands of employed Colorado workers need SNAP benefits to make ends meet
In Colorado, even as the minimum wage has increased, thousands of workers still need food assistance…
Reclassification of marijuana opens doors for much-needed medical research into the benefits and ris…
The new federal classification of marijuana regulates only medical use; recreational use is still de…
Trump’s Medicaid fraud crackdown may sound sensible, but it could harm Americans who require long-te…
U.S. Vice President JD Vance listens as Mehmet Oz, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare …
The race to mine critical minerals for AI and clean energy is creating ‘sacrifice zones’ that harm w…
An artisanal miner holds a cobalt stone at a mine near Kolwezi, Congo, in 2022. About 20,000 people …