Is crime out of control? The homicide rate went down 12 percent last year. Still, there’s more than one kind of crime, more than one data set and more than one way to spin things.
While billionaires and big corporate interests mainly support Republicans, more than 95 percent of PAC spending from the four biggest public-sector unions went to Democrats.
Are we really as divided as we’re being told we are? A new paper from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace takes up that question. Its answer may surprise you.
In our naive civics mythology, we want our presidents to be men and women of the highest integrity. We want them to embody the rule of law and respect for the Constitution. But these things aren’t true anymore.
A new report sheds light on mistakes, data gaps and dysfunctional organizational cultures that contributed to America suffering more loss of life than any other country in the world.
The closest Doomsday Clock has ever come to midnight is right now, at 90 seconds to midnight. The Clock is maintained some of the most sober and accomplished scientists in the world. We’d be fools not to listen.
Election administrators are still digging out from the mountains of misinformation from the 2020 election cycle. Bad actors are using AI to ramp up for the next one.
The Catholic Church's "Doctrine of Discovery" was used to justify the world’s largest land grabs and the resulting colonialism and oppression of indigenous peoples.
A statue long considered a Renaissance masterpiece in Florence (and the world over) has now been deemed pornographic in Florida. Such a stark contrast in points of view—here or there—has a long history.
Even though no congressional Republican voted for the biggest climate bill in the country’s history, red states were among the leaders in green power generation last year.
Thanks to the increasingly commingled worlds of politics and popular entertainment, the State of the Union address has devolved into something that resembles an awards show or grand fund-raising gala, except with hecklers.