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Two authors argue that teachers should embrace controversial issues to help students learn the political process. But, they say, context is key.

School officials decided to reopen schools after the more than 900 in the district were inspected and found to be safe.

China is hosting an international summit touting its vision of an orderly, government-controllable Internet. But China's prospects for exporting its censorship-heavy model overseas don't look bright.

NPR's media correspondent David Folkenflik examines the media's role when stories of potentially ISIS-related activity break.

A new initiative will pay former prisoners to make art. The project stems from the Mirror Casket, art produced during Ferguson related protests....

Twenty years ago the Dayton Peace Accord put an end to the extreme violence and ethnic cleansing of the Bosnian War. But many St. Louis Bosnians feel...

Fingerprinting has been around since the age of the Egyptians. However, modern criminal forensics in the United States have only been using this unique...

The courts serve as an alternative for people with mental health issues when legal charges are filed. The courts steer people to help through community services rather than jail.

According to numbers compiled by the Death Penalty Information Center, the number of people executed in the United States is at its lowest level since 1991. Death sentences are down 33 percent.

Leroy Peoples, the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit, served 780 consecutive days in isolation.