In the early summer of 2020, at the height of the pandemic, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Washington in raucous protests against the police killing of George Floyd. In the ...

The tragic social climate makes it difficult to hope for a bright future, but there is always real comfort in community.

At the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, you can now find Spanish descriptions in the galleries, as well as bilingual programming for families and kids. And staffers there have been asked to take ...

A public school teacher defeating a 36-year veteran congressmen seems like something out of a Hollywood screenplay. But Jeromie Whalen wants to make that a reality. Whalen, a teacher at Northampton ...

President Trump, twice impeached, once convicted, and forever a master of spectacle, wants to end the war in Ukraine because he wants to go to heaven."I want to try and get to heaven, if possible," he ...

Two decades after the Rose Revolution, the former Soviet satellite is turning away from the West and back toward Russia. What ...

Gavin Newsom's Press Office Copying Trump refers to a series of posts made by California Governor Gavin Newsom's official Press Office X / Twitter account ...

Sound Off is an opinion forum for Mercury readers to offer brief comments on today’s news. Submissions must be 75 words or fewer and are subject to editing for grammar and clarity. Publication is at ...

President Donald Trump sent the National Guard in to quell largely peaceful protests in Los Angeles in June. It was the busiest protest month since 2020.

As Trump’s ugly ramblings about his militarization of cities get worse, prominent legal observer Joyce Vance explains how and ...

At parks, coffee shops, churches and government buildings around the country, hundreds of groups are gathering today with a ...