To become Americans, we promised to defend the laws of the United States. What if defending them now puts out status at risk?

By emphasizing scientific uncertainty above other values, political appointees can block any regulatory action they want to.

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The Biden administration, by contrast, made sunscreen use and reducing sun exposure central to its Cancer Moonshot plan. The ...

Can the city of New York sell groceries more cheaply than the private sector? The mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani thinks so.

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Is it better, for the health of a society, to pardon or punish the perpetrators?” Caught “between the drive to forget and the ...

Church intervention in electoral races is an efficient polarization machine.

He—the president, their leader, the martyr who had endured scandals and prosecution and an assassin’s bullet on their ...

To fend off illiberalism from the White House, the university’s president also has to confront illiberalism on campus.

As the Jeffrey Epstein case shows, right-wing internet personalities prefer “just asking questions” to getting answers.

Perhaps this is true, but the network that once made Cronkite the most trusted man in America no longer gets the benefit of ...