Contrails conjure a sense of something overwhelming and ineffable, as terrifying as it is beautiful.

The internet erupted in controversy over Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues’ claim of a microbe thriving on arsenic. Nearly 15 ...

The first full draft of the assessment, on the state of America’s land, water and wildlife, was weeks from completion. The ...

One of the judges whose court could hear a case challenging Trump’s agenda is Judge Jeffrey Sutton. He’s the chief judge of ...

The new administration may transform our constitutional order fruitfully yet again, or it may accelerate a final degeneration ...

Sixteen months after the Oct. 7 massacre, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has concluded his official visit to ...

Dive into the dark and disturbing world of active cults that continue to operate under the radar. From snake-handling ...

The United States is estimated to have spent more than $400 billion on the kinds of antimissile goals that the president now ...

The remarks from Karoline Leavitt, the new White House press secretary, echoed earlier remarks by the Biden administration ...

The material begins with premodern ideas of magic, myth and metaphysics. The narrative that “Western” societies tell of the development of the modern world is that the Enlightenment cast off ...

Benjamin Franklin was wrong, or at least premature, when he wrote in 1789 that nothing is certain in this world “except death and taxes.” Were he writing today, he would have to add to this ...

Border enforcement agencies have spent billions assembling surveillance tools to track and find people. These could be ...