Yet as stunning as it may sound, “empathy is a sin” is a claim that’s been growing in recent years across the Christian right ...

I do feel like there’s a lot to be hopeful about: I’m excited that my kids will grow up in a time when we can use AI to develop new drugs and decode elephant language (although maybe some of those AI ...

One big reason is a tax provision known as SALT — the state and local tax deduction. I asked Today, Explained ’s Devan ...

It’s this context that has made Congress’s debate over a multitrillion-dollar reconciliation bill so fascinating. The bill’s ...

And I called my mom way more. That’s saying something because I talk to both of my parents essentially every other day with ...

Ultimately, it’s not the leaders who see eye to eye with Trump on migration, the rule of law, or wokeness who seem to have ...

In 2015, right-wing intellectual Charles Murray wrote a book laying the groundwork for DOGE’s reign of terror.

For years, Trump has railed against birthright citizenship, saying that the United States shouldn’t automatically give ...

The analysis focused on the tropics because that’s where most deforestation, or deliberate forest clearing, occurs. Tropical ...

There are no heroes in Libby v. Fecteau, a decision about an anti-trans lawmaker that the Supreme Court handed down on ...

Which is why it is striking to note that Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg share a favorite author: Iain M. Banks, the Scottish ...

By the mid-1900s, ranchers and hunters had exterminated these felines, largely because they were seen — like many other wild predators — as a threat to cattle. Jaguars do occasionally kill cows, ...