Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United.No Supreme Court ruling or constituti

Half of the population in Dallas County, Alabama, where Selma is located, was African American in 1965.

After “Spell Against Indifference,” an offering of another poem — this one inspired by a lovely piece of science news that touched me with its sonorous existential echoes. THE HAL…

This is the opening to rebuild a future we deserve.

A transpartisan initiative to return power to the people.

Late on Friday night, President Donald J.

A transpartisan initiative to return power to the people.

Today was the 152nd running of the Kentucky Derby, which was launched in 1875 as horse racing—with its famous Black jockeys, who won more than half of the first 28 derbies—was gaining an audience in t...

The brilliantly curious creator, once a reluctant audio convert, is now a connoisseur.

Language is an instrument of great precision and poignancy — our best tool for telling each other what the world is and what we are, for conveying the blueness of blue and the wonder of being…

40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.

Six months before going to war in Iran, the U.S. government cut staff that would have been central to the current situation.

None of them through the Strait of Hormuz

NPR is tracking the record number of congressional lawmakers — now more than one in eight current members — who have announced plans to retire or run for a different office in 2026.

The primary focus this week is probably going to be on the State of the Union address.

This artist rejects the notion that paint as a medium inevitably becomes exhausted, incapable of making something, however broken it may be.

Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S.

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“Everything depends on the individual human being, regardless of how small a number of like-minded people there is… on each person… creatively making the meaning of life a reality…

New Mexico became on Saturday the first U.S. state to offer free child care to all residents in a bid to boost its economy and lift education and child welfare levels ranked the worst in the country.

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“The world where the owl is endlessly hungry and endlessly on the hunt is the world in which I live too. There is only one world.”

The Supreme Court is set to hear a Republican-led challenge to the Voting Rights Act, giving its conservative majority a chance to deal another blow to the landmark federal law enacted 60 years ago to prevent racial discrimination in voting.

It took an American president unbound by traditional domestic constraints to get this done and provide the parties with what they could accept

Justice Jackson accuses her colleagues of "repeated, gratuitous, and harmful interference."

Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour