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President Obama has commuted the sentences of 72 more inmates to bring his total commutations to 944. Professor P.S. Ruckman of Northern Illinois University explains why the move is unprecedented.

If any of this strikes you as unfair, you can join the chorus of critics who have abhorred the Electoral College for generations.

Akron is one of four cities using civic-engagement grants to make voting a more playful and community-oriented act.

Far down the ballot, district attorney races could reshape the criminal justice system for millions of Americans by electing a more diverse slate of prosecutors.

Social and demographic change has shaken the foundation for some of what it means to be American. It has set the backdrop of this campaign in ways that were predictable and completely surprising.

Dylann Roof, the 22-year-old white man accused of killing nine black people at a Charleston, S.C. church, goes back to court on Monday.

Up until he retired as head of the National Academy of Sciences, the soft-spoken atmospheric scientist spent his career diligently directing a skeptical public to the human causes of climate change.

Syrian rebel forces begin a military offensive targeting "the obscurantists [who] have taken this city as capital for their so-called state."

Democrats need to win districts like this suburban D.C. one in Virginia to cut into House Republicans' margin. And it will show just how much Republicans can separate themselves from Donald Trump.

The website I Waited 96 Years documents women born before the 19th Amendment was ratified, which gave women the right to vote. Now they're proud to be voting for a woman major-party nominee.