The Panopticon design involved a central watch tower, from which a single prison officer could observe the goings-on in the ...

A commission of inquiry in Victoria concluded that British colonialists' treatment of the state's First Peoples in the 1830s ...

According to myth, the ghost of George Washington cursed anyone serving more than four years. But a nonconsecutive second ...

It includes a plan to revive a major pay-to-play bill snuffed out in the Hawaiʻi Legislature this year. Will it work?

In a landslide free vote, British MPs voted 379 in favour of decriminalising abortion, while 137 voted against the bill.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has signed a controversial labor reform into law, delivering a significant increase in ...

As MPs vote to decriminalise abortion in England and Wales, we take a look at the current legislation in place around abortion in Scotland.

On July 26, the Erie Canal Museum’s new walking tour, “Burned Over: The Erie Canal and Fire Walking Tour,” is a quarter ...

Swedes could only buy alcohol from government-owned retailers. Now the government is loosening the rules - but there's a ...

Boston city councilors are exploring ways to bring a historically Black college or university presence to the city for the ...

Efforts in the early 20th century to improve the quality of medical education in the United States led to a steep decline in ...

Back to the 1800s Many critics of the GENIUS Act say that features of the bill will revive the problems that America’s financial system experienced in the 19th century. There’s an irony here.