Subalpine wetlands in the Rocky Mountains are warming, creating the perfect conditions for producing methylmercury, a potent…
If a machine creates a video or a song that brings a person to tears, does it matter that the machine felt nothing?
Manufacturers often make bold claims about how well these technologies work. Better testing would allow consumers and institutions…
Donald Trump aims to rewrite America’s official history, including at one of the nation’s key sites of public history-making:…
The last eight members of Congress who died in office were Democrats. A younger generation of office seekers has raised…
Donald Trump isn’t the first GOP president to have courted segments of the labor movement, dividing a key Democratic constituency,…
Charities have no right to keep stolen money they receive as donations, even if they didn’t know it was stolen.
The US president has announced that arrangements are in the works for a meeting between the wartime leaders.
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Looking back on New Orleans 20 years after Hurricane Katrina is a reminder that while such hazards may be natural, the death…
Chaos gardening is touted on social media as an easy, no-effort way to create a beautiful garden. A landscape specialist…
The Civil Rights Movement is often told in terms of court decisions, brutal beatings and racist demagogues. It’s rarely…
There’s no evidence of widespread, systematic discrimination against white Americans. Just ask them.
Consumers perceive some misspellings positively, but only if the unconventional spelling is relevant and not too extreme,…
For all the talk of security guarantees for Ukraine, the peace being looked at by the US president looks to be aligned with…
For the first time since returning to democracy, Bolivia’s presidential election heads to a runoff. But no left-wing candidate…