There’s no doubt that 2025 has been one of the most politically chaotic years of the 21st century. Amid the domestic and geopolitical mayhem unleashed by Donald Trump’s return to the White House, ...

For writers, the future has long been a tricky terrain. While the past can prove unsettling and the present uncomfortable, the future seems to free the mind from reality’s restraints and let the ...

Placing children in unsafe or unstable environments resulted in more than 20,000 foster youth being reported missing in 2022, according to a federal report. The “systemic failure” of the foster care ...

Colin Greer has served as president of the New World Foundation since 1985. A former Brooklyn College professor, he directed studies on U.S. immigration and urban schooling at Col ...

A new book sheds light on the "intellectual" underpinnings of the Trump revolution.

The Trump administration’s proposal to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research has sent shockwaves through the U.S. scientific community, raising concerns about t ...

the universe works without the aid of gods (or God), that religious fear (dreading hell) is damaging to human life, that pleasure and virtue are not opposites but intertwined, and that matter is ...

Mike Konczal, senior director of policy and research at the Economic Security Project and a former member of President Joe Biden’s National Economic Council, argued in his personal newsletter on ...

Massive cuts at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have hampered state-level regulators’ ability to rein in ...

The Houthis declared a blockade and attacked ships that violated it, based on a legal rationale rooted in the laws of armed conflict, to try to end mass civilian slaughter in Gaza, and their ...

Federal immigration enforcement agents are increasingly operating while masked and without visible identification, a practice that Human Rights Watch says has become widespread under the Trump ...

The Trump administration has reportedly adopted an aggressive new internal target aimed at stripping U.S. citizenship from large numbers of naturalized Americans in fiscal year 2026, a move that ...