A bipartisan pair of lawmakers is urging House colleagues to accept the outcome of November’s elections, whichever side wins.  The campaign arrives as President Trump and some of his Republican all…

America PAC’s approach has been unusual: for every dollar it has spent supporting GOP Senate candidates, it has spent almost three dollars attacking Democrats.

Brett McGurk, who was the top Middle East adviser to President Joseph R. Biden Jr., offered the first inside-the-room account of American efforts to manage the Gaza war.

Scientists in biodiversity-rich countries are using digitized plant records to identify rare species and inform what gets protected.

PEN America today reported nearly 12,000 book bans in public schools nationwide during the 2025-2026 school year—the largest number in a single year. New state censorship laws accounted for much of th...

Since the second Trump administration took office, news on how the nation’s leaders are systematically dismantling the practice of science in the U.S. has arrived in a daily deluge. In this…

Tagging Principles Peter Suber I’m still revising this piece and welcome comments. When the revisions taper off, I’ll probably try to publish it. Since it’s longer than an article and shorter than a b...

Tagging Principles Peter Suber I’m still revising this piece and welcome comments. When the revisions taper off, I’ll probably try to publish it. Since it’s longer than an article and shorter than a b...

A new map shows Flock has more cameras in the U.S. than was previously known. The company wants the map taken down.

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The Nov. 3 election will be the first time Collins is on the ballot since the Supreme Court’s 2022 ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade, resulting in abortion being banned in much of the United States.

Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...

Paramount Skydance is in "advanced talks" with California Attorney General Rob Bonta to settle the 12-state antitrust suit that's holding up its takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, the WSJ reported.

Plus: It’s time to declassify the 9/11 records

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“South Dakota deserves a Secretary of State who will strengthen confidence through performance rather than provocation,” Monae Johnson wrote in a column published Saturday.

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Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.

If you haven’t yet encountered the cover story for the August issue of The Atlantic, I have some bad news to share: “The End of Reading Is Here.” It’s an intentionally provocative headline for a sligh...

The Justice Department fulfilled the public records request for the letters just as their author departed the agency.

Crowd member repeatedly said some Democrats ‘should be shot’ during Ted Cruz’s speech, without senator responding

On November 3, Honolulu, HI; Irvine, CA; and Longmont, CO will vote on whether to adopt ranked choice voting for local elections.

The judge said the plan, put together by DHS, appeared as if it was "pulled from thin air" and would impede FEMA's ability to fulfill its legally mandated duty to respond to disasters.

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A year after his killing, people who lost their jobs for criticizing Charlie Kirk are still suffering under the erosion of free speech.

The open access (OA) color classification system used by Unpaywall (i.e., Gold, Green, Hybrid, Bronze, and closed) was introduced in 2018 and has since become widely used across the ecosystem, includi...

The judge also rejected Ohio’s argument that the injunction came too close to the election and risked disrupting election administration. He instead warned of the opposite risk: eligible citizens losi...

With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...

Stronger job protections, auditing standards, and oversight are needed to allow inspectors general to do their jobs effectively.

HHS releases report linking ‘gender ideology’ to political violence – a study scientists say was poorly conducted

The proposed benefit, a top policy priority for Vice President JD Vance, would apply only to married couples and tap a fund intended to provide federal child care subsidies to working parents.

According to new documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, an undergraduate working with DOGE requested that his work for HUD count toward his University of Chicago degree.