A Kansas trans woman is being charged with driving with an invalid license after a police officer refused to believe the license the state is forcing her to carry was valid. She won’t be the last.

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Starmer did not "do nothing": he made the country radically more regressive. No wonder he fell.

SAN MATEO, CA—After spending the past three decades of his life being totally unable and unwilling to engage in any meaningful way with the world around him, James Parker, a local guy who sucks at bei...

Hungarian journalist Szabolcs Panyi uncovered explosive evidence that the country’s foreign minister had offered favours to the Kremlin. On the eve of hotly contested elections, the government responded by accusing him of espionage and threatening jail time.

Drones attacked a plant in the city of Sterlitamak in Russia's Bashkortostan – about 1,500 km away from Ukraine – on the morning of 15 April.

Few studies survey men who have remained undetected after engaging in acts of sexual aggression against women. Most survey women who were targets of sexual aggr...

Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?

“Goodbye, Pamela Paul,” was the headline of Andrea Long Chu’s now-iconic, recently ASME-nominated New York Magazine farewell to the former NY Times Book Review editor, when Paul left the paper two …

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The place I came from, the port across the sea of stars, the isle town edged with sturgeon scales, was built on basalt. The place I came to, the city at the centre of the field of view, the once-ringe...

That reflexive 'sorry' you can't stop saying was never about politeness — it was a survival strategy you learned before you had the language to name what was happening in your home.

Russia's full-invasion of Ukraine began four years ago today. While Ukraine has resisted, the impact on civilian life continues to be severe.