California's new plan to fight global climate change is innovative. But it raises tricky ethical questions with no easy…
The conflict between Congress and President Trump over his dealings with Ukraine's president is just the latest version…
A new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report makes clear human-induced climate change threatens the health and…
The backlog in naturalization applications has ballooned to more than 700,000. Wait times have doubled in the last three…
Male lions are responsible for the movement of genes between prides. New research confirmed that the genes are traveling…
There's no First Amendment in the workplace, which leaves worker activists at the whim of their employers.
Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur are quintessentially Jewish holidays, but an ethicist argues that their values that place emphasis…
Some view a retreat from democracy and the escalating effects of climate change as an unfortunate coincidence. But a new…
The US has historically asked for international support when brewing conflicts in the Middle East boiled over.
After a long prohibition, France is permitting medical cannabis trials. This isn't the first time that France is testing…
Reversing the damage from fires in Brazil's rainforest is not as simple as allowing trees to grow back. Decades of research…
Some Cuban entrepreneurs are so openly anti-communist that they sound like, well, capitalists.
California has limited medical exemptions for vaccinating children. A new law places final authority with the state public…
There's been a reversal of power between religious and secular sides of American culture. The Supreme Court is now at…
Asylum-seekers will now be prevented from applying for asylum in the United States if they could have pursued asylum in…
Between 1% and 9% of sex offenders are female. Many are 'co-offenders,' recruiting and manipulating victims for…