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House Democrats stalled a vote on a set of abortion bills as long as they could this past weekend, forcing House Republicans to sit through dozens of…

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The Supreme Court has sent a high-profile affirmation action case back to the lower courts. The case, Fisher v. University of Texas, concerned the admissions policy at the University of Texas, which uses race as one factor for some slots.

Attempting to ascertain Robert E. Lee’s intentions, on Friday, June 5, 1863 Union troops from Joseph Hooker’s Army of the Potomac made a reconnaissance at…

Union mortar boats at Vicksburg relentlessly bombarded the Confederate defenders and civilian population of that city.A resident of Vicksburg in early…

The country's president likes jabbing the U.S. The U.S. could put pressure on Ecuador if it grants asylum to Edward Snowden, though the country's oil reserves give it something of a buffer.

The shift aligns the biggest Arab economy with its neighbors. King Abdullah ordered the change to begin this Friday.

Thomas sided with the majority but argues that state-sanctioned racial discrimination is "automatically fatal." In his view, the court should have taken broader action to prohibit the use of race in college admissions.

On Friday, June 19, 1863 in the eastern theatre of war General Richard Ewell’s Confederates moved north of the Potomac River. With Southern troops on…

By mid-June 1863 the Union siege of Vicksburg worsened. A Confederate major noted, “One day is like another in a besieged city—all you can hear is the…