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Why liberals need a plan and promise to make Congress great again.

With proposals for a 450-foot statue of Prometheus on Alcatraz and a 650-foot George Washington, MAGA adherents are racing to build America’s largest statue.

A growing cohort of farmers, scientists and policy advocates are championing perennial grassland agriculture to safeguard the state's natural resources and preserve family farms.

Trump’s actions are illegal, yes. Worse than that, they are wrong—precisely what the legality debate is meant to obscure.

Update: The Metropolitan Museum of Art has put online 492,000 high-resolution images of artistic works. Even better, the museum has placed the vast majority of these images into the public domain, mea...

The cross of imperial violence

During the Second World War, hundreds of thousands of German combatants set foot on American soil—as prisoners of the United States.

The president may not like how the museum and research institution tells the American story — but Americans do.

The “Moneyball” era changed how teams play, coach and are built. But the quest for efficiency is increasingly being blamed for robbing sports of their beauty.

US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.

Yesterday, Judge Casey Cooper of the District Court for the District of Columbia issued an order denying an injunction that would have stopped the Trump...

Recklessness will not get us to a revitalized government, but neither will excessive caution and addiction to procedure.

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These parents believe in home-schooling and distrust food and drug companies. In Kennedy, they see “a bull in the china shop.”

The Trump administration's Monday spending freeze is likely to provoke a crisis over the constitutionality of "impoundment"—one that the justices could well have to resolve *very* soon.

Why defending process won't save us — and what might

An exhibition of what-ifs, designed to be seen, not read, will be on display through February.

It is portentous, and a thing of state That here at midnight, in our little town A mourning figure walks, and will not rest, Near the old court-house pacing up and down. His suit of ancient black, A f...