The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.

A close look at the signatories reveals many have been involved in past GOP efforts—including “Jews For Mitt” in 2012.

As part of the Department of Government Efficiency’s program to shrink the federal work force, paid administrative leave costs rose by 435 percent.

Newly uncovered record shows Mike Rogers repeatedly opposed efforts to establish, advance, or fund medical care for people sickened after the Sept. 11 attacks.

The civil libertarians’ warnings have come true.

Patients sued by Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas were routinely charged 18 percent interest, The Times found. Some had bank accounts garnished.

New Gallup polling finds that 71% of people in the U.S. approve of unions, continuing the highest period of favorability in over 60 years. This coincides with the greatest number of workers represente...

New Gallup polling finds that 71% of people in the U.S. approve of unions, continuing the highest period of favorability in over 60 years. This coincides with the greatest number of workers represente...

Vote blue no matter who? Not if you’re too brown!

A reckoning with the “woke” years.

Speakers warned against DSA politicians taking over the Democratic party.

A crackdown on American academia by the Trump administration has handed Canadian universities a rare opportunity to lure some top researchers north.

[Essay] Political labels are increasingly meaningless. As Josh Marshall has been writing, fewer people these days are inclined to identify as “centrist” or…

This sick attack is a preview of what he faces—and a case study in how lies become part of our political debate.

During a recent interview on 620 WTMJ, Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Tiffany was asked about his views on the 2020 presidential election. Given that Tiffany backed a State of Texas lawsuit se...

The operator behind Freedom Fuel retail gas stations has drawn a raft of penalties and fines from New Jersey regulators.

The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger examine threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the week’s big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in everything we read, watch and hear.

In the latest example, the Energy Department will convert a shuttered Cold War-era uranium enrichment facility into a data center campus and gas plants.

In 2004, not many people imagined Senators Brown and Baldwin and President Obama. America’s voters often progress more quickly than we expect.

A new report finds removal orders for people who missed hearings more than doubled in New York City in June, as a new tactic of hastily scheduled court dates rolled out.

The battle cry of the reactionary centrist, or how we helped usher in authoritarianism

Talking about Climate Change is a Political Winner.

“You cannot thin a system, defer the tools that would speed it up, and then wonder why the public is left guessing,” writes epidemiologist Katrine Wallace.

The country does not love its president.

The Department of Justice has tapped two prosecutors with expertise in organized...

The Broadview Six case didn’t happen in a void.  In the month...

A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities who...

Immigrants locked up in Michigan sued the federal government to try and go free. The lawsuits worked for hundreds of people, but a new analysis shows that’s changing.

It’s not hard to look around America today and see signs of...

Liberty Energy made $193 million last year and received more than $10 million back in tax benefits, according to a nonprofit analysis released on Tax Day.

It’s the Corruption, Stupid In the aftermath of Viktor Orbán’s defeat in...