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Bram Wijnands has made a name for himself as a jazz musician in Kansas City. After a performance at Carnegie Hall in New York in 1998, he received…

If you have seen the show "Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood" — or, in other words, if you have infant children — you probably know about "banana swirl." Or,…

Just a quick glance at the front page, and it’s easy to tell what issues are heating up Washington these days: the separation of church and state, states'…

The partial government shutdown hasn't just shuttered museums in Washington, D.C. Across the U.S., and even beyond its borders, artists and the groups supporting them are grappling with the fallout.

The rights of refugees were enshrined in international law in the wake of World War II. But those rules aren't always respected.

Dozens of immigrant recruits who joined the military through a special Defense Department program, promising a path to citizenship, have been abruptly discharged with little or no explanation.

In the first half of the 20th century, American eugenicists used forced sterilization to "breed out" traits they considered undesirable. Adam Cohen tells the story in his new book, Imbeciles.

Advocates for ending birthright citizenship point to "birth tourism" schemes to argue that the legal principle is ripe for exploitation and threatens national security. Experts say it's not so simple.

As tensions deepen, the flow of tourists, students, researchers and entrepreneurs has slowed between the U.S. and China.

Detroit and Birmingham, Ala., top a new national list of school district boundaries that separate the haves from the have nots.