News Analysis

For years, conservative evangelicals have been advocating for the repeal of the Johnson Amendment. They've found an ally in Trump.

With almost two-thirds of the state legislatures in the country under GOP control, a ratified constitutional amendment is a possibility, although a long shot.

The United States has already lost — its war for the Middle East, that is.

On the heels of the shale gas rush, another wave of fossil fuel-based projects is coming.

Scientists must grapple with politics and resist political reaction in order to be more effective.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission found that discrimination complaints rose yet again, and disability-based discrimination appears to be steadily increasing.

Ordinary US taxpayers are subsidizing excessive CEO pay through a variety of channels. These five reforms could help end these perverse incentives for executive excess.

Since 2002, at least 270 environmental accidents on USMC bases on Okinawa have contaminated land and local waterways.

Yale University finally decided to rename its Calhoun College after someone who actually deserves the honor.

Before the abolition of slavery, free black people openly defied the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 that sanctioned slavery.