Many Democrats are running scared on trans issues. They shouldn't be.

Regular readers know that WVU’s Dr. Michael Hendryx has done work on that issue (subscription required), reporting that:

‘The Matrix’ filmmaker Lilly Wachowski opens up about her new studio for marginalized voices Anarchists United, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk.

Losing temporary protected status means Salvadorans must return to a country many of them no longer recognize or go underground in the US.

We’re gonna need a bigger bench.

The U.S. military has killed hundreds of noncombatants since gutting its Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response mission last year. After significant blowback, the Defense Department is considering part...

Evaluate the impact of natural and synthetic home furnishing on time to flashover in a residential fire, and which one burns faster?

People say they’ve been secretly filmed in their own homes, at concerts and at work. Are the wildly popular smartglasses the final nail in the coffin of personal privacy?

A new ProPublica analysis shows a stark pattern across states in the Deep South: Alongside majority-Black public school districts, a separate web of private academies are filled almost entirely with w...

Critics argue US high court justice should recuse himself from upcoming fossil fuel firms’ climate accountability case

Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.

“Devastation” across body of 14th century warrior indicates horrific demise from flying boulder

The US Supreme Court has a reputation problem. And Donald Trump’s attacks are making it worse.

From late June through July, successive heat waves swept across large portions of the United States, breaking temperature records and placing more than 100 million people at a time under heat alerts. ...

Rates are now the highest they've been in nearly 50 years among veteran coal miners. Mining experts blame toxic silica dust, now more common in mines.

Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.

State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil

Some have called for Nuremberg-style trials against big oil. But there are laws already on the books to describe companies’ conduct

Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is overseeing an operation posting hundreds of blog posts on behalf of Israel, with the goal of infiltrating artificial intelligence.

Four months before the 2026 midterms, three Democratic lawmakers have decided to give a historically unpopular president a little boost.

Pontevedra, Spain, offers some of the best evidence available about what happens when a city is reconfigured to accommodate people, rather than cars.

We didn’t know days like this could happen. Then we learned how bad they really are.

Sea surface temperatures in late June reached nearly 70 degrees Fahrenheit on average, shattering records

‘One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police.’