The Trump administration has made no secret of its desire to upend the Department of Education as it currently functions. It plans to lay off at least half of the department's workforce, more than ...

There must be something about the human brain that’s different from the brains of other animals — something that enables humans to plan, imagine the future, solve crossword puzzles, tell sarcastic ...

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The partisan fight to draw maps that determine how Americans are represented has entered a dangerous spiral. Texas is racing ahead with a mid-decade congressional redraw designed to lock in additional ...

The EU's new political advertising regulations, which come into force in October 2025, resulted in Meta and Google platforms choosing to discontinue political and social advertising throughout Europe.

Generation Z is emerging as the most likely age group in America to see political violence as justified, new polling shows.

A rousing defense of public education as the cornerstone of American democracy, by the woman attacked by the far right as "the most dangerous person in the world" Attacks on schools and teachers have ...

On Oct. 25, 2023, Rep. Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, stood before his colleagues and the world in the well of the U.S. House of Representatives. It was his first speech since his unlikely rise from ...

Members of the Israeli civic action group Brothers and Sisters in Arms march through an ultra-Orthodox neighorhood in Jerusalem on March 31 2024, protesting the exception from military service ...

“The night is dark and full of worries.” It always starts the same way. A small crack in the stillness. You open your eyes, and the ceiling stares back, blank and quiet. The hum of the refrigerator, ...