T.J. Raphael

Is California the best place to be an undocumented immigrant? Governor Jerry Brown, Democrat from California, doesn't think so, but he is leading a reform campaign in his state.

Our ideas about what is "morally acceptable" have changed in recent years. But as the Ashley Madison hack shows, Americans still abhor affairs.

After a scandal involving Brazil's state-run oil company, tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets over the weekend to call for the impeachment President Dilma Rousseff.

Malcolm Graham, the brother of Cynthia Graham Hurd, who was killed at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, says more needs to be done to address “growing racial problems.”

Several police departments in Massachusetts are experimenting with a program to help heroin addicts get into recovery rather than behind bars. 

Governor Jerry Brown is California's longest-serving governor. He's presided over an economic boom, accompanied by an unsustainable drought.

Jon Huntsman, Jr., the former governor of Utah and a prominent Republican, says that Donald Trump's candidacy will drive the GOP into the "ash heap of history."

Farkhunda Malikzada was beaten to death by a mob in broad daylight. And now activists are taking a stand.

Germany takes in more asylum seekers than any other nation in Europe—an estimated 750,000 this year alone—but a recent spurt of attacks against refugees have ignited a national debate.

New research suggests that 56 percent of Americans haven't taken any vacation at all in the last 12 months. But could the pressure to keep working actually hurt our performance?

In a major setback for college athletics on Monday, the National Labor Relations Board overturned a 2014 ruling that gave Northwestern University football players the right to unionize.

The area to Russia's north was once covered continually by ice. Now that it's melted, Russia is reaching north to claim territory in the Arctic—and it is likely to get it. 

Companies big and small are now relying on data-centric models to track a worker's productivity, effort, and focus. We explore what role data-driven management has in today’s workplace.

Americans waste 70 billion pounds of food a year. But Chef Dan Barber isn't one of them. He's taking food from the trash and putting it on people's plates.  

In its next term, the Supreme Court will hear a case involving racial biases in jury selection, a problem that's had visible effects on verdicts in some Southern courts.

Civil rights icon Julian Bond died on Saturday at the age of 75. Bond holds a remarkable place in civil rights history, complete with a long and impressive legacy.

In New Hampshire, local politicians are asking national candidates to turn their attention to the issue that's most important to the state: Heroin.

Many states have laws against taking photographs of ballots, but until this week, New Hampshire was the only state with a law against “ballot selfies.”

Ukraine has banned 38 books published in Russian, arguing that they contain hateful, separatist ideology. 

After weathering months of scandal, the board of the American Psychological Association pledged to recommit itself to the ethical duty of “do no harm" last week.