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The high court’s ruling effectively endorses the unitary executive theory, greatly expanding the power of the president.
The American Revolution was won not just by ideals and armies, but by the strategic trade networks of a small Caribbean port.
William Tyndale’s translation, published in 1526, was based on a then-radical idea: Anyone should be able to read the Bible in their own language.
Muslims were woven into both America’s founding population and its labor force, writes a scholar of Islam on the nation’s 250th anniversary.
Detailed data is useful for understanding and addressing environmental effects on people’s lives in ways that become difficult or impossible if only...
The World Cup is bringing visitors and AI-driven surveillance systems, but only one of those is certain to leave when the games are done.
Every year, the number of human-caused fires spikes on July 4, and many of them are related to fireworks. When trees and grasses are dry and the...
Geofencing warrants, which round up the location data of everyone in a specific place at a specific time, are now legally subject to Fourth Amendment...
The court’s narrow opinion backing Fed governor Lisa Cook against Trump referenced the Fed’s vital role in steering the US economy.
Every year, the number of human-caused fires spikes on July 4, and many of them are related to fireworks. When trees and grasses are dry and the...
An astronomer explains why artificial black holes are pure science fiction – at least for now.
Involving families, educators, engineers, designers and policymakers in AI development can help ensure the technology does more good than harm.
The ‘Mother Road’ has long symbolized freedom and reinvention. But its history reveals a more complicated story shaped by migration, segregation...
Armed with rolls of film, some young people are opting out of their algorithmic feeds in favor of experiencing life in ways that feel more deliberate,...
If students choose to listen to music while studying, they should consider music that is less distracting – and save high-energy playlists for when...
President Donald Trump’s capital redesign follows centuries of debate and discussion about how Washington should look to the world.
American courts have heard cases over the Bible’s role in classrooms for more than a century. Whether lessons are constitutional depends on their...
Corporate layoffs cause confusion about a business’s future, but there’s a way for investors and employees alike to see if downsizing could lead...
If you want to help, an aid expert advises you to donate cash to nonprofits involved in local rescue and recovery efforts.
Two recent Supreme Court rulings suggest the high court is so pro-gun it has decided it must also be pro-drugs.
Israel has long sought to gain a military advantage by degrading its adversaries’ military capabilities outside of times of direct conflict.
Detroit’s repeat tourists help spread understanding of techno’s local roots as the music industry continues to commercialize the subculture.
At a time when Americans disagree deeply over the meaning of citizenship, belonging and education, summer camps remain places where visions of the...
Landor v. Louisiana highlights the religious rights of the nearly 2 million people imprisoned in the US – and how challenging it can be to protect...
From the Civil War to the Cold War, existential fears have fueled claims that America is a Christian nation, a historian of US Christianity explains.
College tuition has not significantly risen since 1990, at least compared to tuition changes over the previous decades.
Both faults are along plate boundaries that move in similar ways and have ruptured in enormously destructive earthquakes in the past.
This is not a one-year blip. The US has been underperforming in terms of health, education and more for the past 25 years.
The uncertainty of Haitian TPS status in the US is a significant source of stress for Haitian migrants, particularly women.
Hosting the FIFA World Cup games can prove a propaganda win for authoritarian nations. But the data suggests the tournament favors democracies.
As the national conversation shifts to political finger-pointing, an important environmental question deserves careful scrutiny: What is the best...
One law generally shields foreign governments and companies they own from lawsuits in US courts. Another lets many Cuban cases proceed, according to a...
AI-powered translation tools are certainly impressive. But there is an important frontier for translation technology, one AI might never be able to...
Young poets wrestled with loneliness, fractured families, violence and other challenges – but also showed an unwillingness to surrender to despair.
Cities benefit from trees, which can cool concrete sprawls and improve air quality.
Wikipedia has grown steadily in size and importance, but a shrinking core of volunteer administrators is straining the organization.
Black holes are a mainstay in sci-fi movies. How do these massive black holes, spread throughout our universe, actually work in real life?
A strong deal would build in real penalties for going back to war: automatic, reversible costs that fall on anyone who restarts the fighting.
An influx of cash would help stabilize rural health systems, but the program’s focus on technology may leave other major issues unaddressed.
Two months after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made the flu vaccine optional in the military, an outbreak leads several branches of the military to...
Un nuevo estudio rastrea cómo las ranas jóvenes equilibran la energía entre crecer y combatir infecciones.
A partisan judiciary, arbitrary power, officials beyond the reach of the people – these are the grievances that drove a revolution.
European colonial powers linked church and state. But the founders of the United States broke from that idea as surely as they broke from Britain.
Decades of farmers using more fertilizer than they needed have quietly built up large reserves of nutrients in the soil.
More than 2 in 5 social media marketers say they plan to leave their job within two years, and many cite insufficient mental health support from...
Grasping how the nation’s highest court makes policy requires stepping into an exceptionally regulated and sometimes hidden routine.
In many cases, a single, shocking crime allegedly involving a foreign-born suspect was quickly reframed into a broader indictment of minorities.
Unintentional injuries kill 20 US children every day. Building a family culture of safety can help them learn to make wise choices.
What happens when a rapper whose early work explored capitalism’s brutality becomes one of the system’s most successful beneficiaries?
A new study tracks how young frogs are trying to avoid a deadly fungal infection.