(THE CONVERSATION) American democracy is straining under countless pressures, many of them rooted in structural problems that go back to the nation’s founding. Chief among them is the “pick one” ...

Texas eliminated rules serving as barriers to kinship caregivers entering the foster system, but these families need more ...

Shifting toward merit-based selection of public university board members can better protect academic freedom than politically appointed boards, which have increasingly exerted influence over state ...

The position, modeled after parliamentary leaders in the British House of Commons, was meant to act as a nonpartisan moderator and referee. The framers famously disliked political parties, and they ...

An expert on political communication explains how Argentina’s history of public lying created a protective barrier between ...

Cuvier proposed that because each part of an organism is developmentally linked to every other part, changes in one part would result in changes to another. With this theory, he argued that a single ...

Over the last year and a half, the OHSAA developed the NIL bylaw proposal in consultation with an NIL committee comprised of school administrators, the OHSAA board of directors, which is elected by ...

For small and mid-sized communities like Muleshoe, the program brings a new layer of recognition to teachers who often serve ...

Defending Texas sovereignty has been central to Abbott’s political identity. Yet he has helped Trump erode states’ authority ...

Leaders in rural Texas who worked years to improve broadband access said they are disappointed by the sharp decrease in federal dollars for the work. Two years ago, the state was awarded $3.3 ...