Cassie Levesque wants to abolish a centuries-old practice. Even in free-thinking New Hampshire, her campaign is proving a hard sell.
To confront climate change, scientists like Mark Patterson are tapping into surprise, adventure, and wonder.
We’re not just talking about planes, trains and automobiles anymore.
Shalanda Baker thinks clean energy can help heal America’s legacy of racism. That’s why she’s joined the Biden Administration.
The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 protects Americans from political intimidation. Ulysses S. Grant used the law to suppress a Klan-led insurrection in the South.
Six decades ago, Reagan, Sen. Barry Goldwater, conservative writer William F. Buckley Jr. and others in the GOP backed away from the conspiracy theories peddled by the leader of the increasingly influential John Birch Society, who claimed former President Eisenhower was a communist plant.
Alessandro Vespignani sounded an alarm at the start of the coronavirus crisis. Now he wants us to build an early-warning system.
A turnout disaster four years ago and an ongoing pandemic have spurred creative ways to defeat the president.
Cleveland’s experience shows why “opportunity zones” help middle-income neighborhoods more than poor ones.
The Justice Department opened a record number of civil rights investigations of police departments, which led to reforms that are still changing cities. Trump abandoned those efforts. Biden has said he’d go even further than his old boss.
Erick Trickey 