One year into the president’s second term, America risks losing a central feature of our democracy: that we are a country ...

The results of six different ranking systems suggest that America’s traditional leadership among the world’s universities has ...

President Trump is dismantling the global system the U.S. built in the 20th century. Foreign policy experts say he wants a ...

Longer lives are colliding with a healthcare system built for short crises. What that mismatch means for families, costs, and ...

The 1913 Federal Reserve Act created the current Federal Reserve System and introduced a central bank to oversee U.S.

High school teachers say that teaching capitalism has become increasingly politicized, with students drawn to figures like ...

Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, have been forcibly taken from Venezuela and are being moved to the United States to face criminal drug-trafficking charges. Regardless of the ...

There’s a word that explains a lot about modern agriculture, even if Merriam-Webster hasn’t caught up yet: chickenization. It’s what happens when animals become “widgets,” farms become factories, and ...

When a California family court handling surrogacy petitions realized a Chinese billionaire was seeking parental rights to at least four unborn children, and learned he had already fathered or was in ...

President Donald Trump recently suggested that the U.S. could learn something from Australia’s superannuation retirement system. He didn’t announce any official policy, but did say the administration ...

A century-old Milwaukee home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright is undergoing an $800,000 restoration. The project aims to restore the 960-square-foot house to its original 1916 appearance. Funding for ...

New York City train operators witness more people being struck by trains than drivers in any other American system. Afterward, many struggle to get the help they need. New York City’s subway system ...