The United States has slid into competitive authoritarianism. The slide has been modest and remains reversible—but it is real. Even after Donald Trump, American democracy will remain fragile.

Trump is expected to revive his false claim that the 2020 election was stolen, using selectively declassified intelligence as “receipts.” Here’s how to spot the tricks used to sell that story.

The agency is finally ready to distribute a spate of new grants, but it is also preparing substantial cuts to areas such as biological and social sciences.

From painting over a Black Lives Matter mural to temporarily scrubbing web stories of Navajo Code Talkers, scholars and activists say the Trump administration is trying to erase non-white history.

Paul Waldman: If you support Trump, he likes you. If you don’t, you’re his enemy.

The U.S. Senate voted on Thursday to approve billions of dollars in funding for federal science agencies, rejecting deep cuts proposed by President Donald Trump in space and other areas.

Good evening. On Friday, the Department of Justice served the Federal Reserve with grand jury subpoenas, threatening a criminal indictment related to my testi

Memo cites overburdened staff, but some say move also aims to elevate White House priorities

Concerns include the administration’s reliance on weak, correlational evidence rather than established research…

We are the NAPE project under CMU’s VariAbility Lab, and we are conducting research to explore how different modifications to educational videos may affect how well lesson material is retained. We a...

In Pittsburgh, I’m a professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the top computer science school in the world. I’ve also worked in various large technology companies, who have offices in Pittsburgh to connect with and employ Carnegie Mellon faculty and students.

It's bad, folks. The real war is on free thought in the United States.

Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress

What makes a good group project? What should students learn? How should they be graded?

Disability accommodations made it possible for me to become a professor and are vital to the success of many of my disabled students and colleagues.

Mindless slashing at NSF won’t just harm the scientific enterprise today—it will damage discovery and innovation for years to come.