Nature

China is planning to land people on the Moon — and might beat the United States to it

All eyes were on the sky yesterday, as NASA launched four astronauts on its Artemis II mission to the Moon. The lunar fly-by is the latest step in the agency’s ambitious plan to return people to the ...
SCOTUSblog

The key arguments in the birthright citizenship case

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. On April 1, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in one of the highest-profile cases of the 2025-26 term – and indeed, ...
The Nation

The Rapid and “Unprecedented” Collapse of American Democracy

The V-Dem Institute, the world’s chronicler of democracy and autocracy, has determined that the United States is no longer “a liberal democracy.” A poster featuring President Donald Trump in a SS ...
Reuters

Ghana's president, in New York, says US is 'normalizing' the erasure of Black history

Ghanaian president says truth of slavery and segregation disappearing Warns that US policies could influence other governments Ghana to present a resolution at UN seeking slavery reparations March 24 ...
The Hechinger Report

OPINION: Teachers are being deprived of chances to learn Black history and bring lessons back to the classroom

Tourists photographing historic birth home of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta, Georgia. The National Endowment for the Humanities is cutting funding that supports courses for K-12 teachers in ...
The New York Times

A Timeline of the Tensions Between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the U.S.

The governments of both countries have repeatedly cast the other as evil, perpetuating a cycle that has culminated in the present war. By Neil MacFarquhar While President Trump has used a scattershot ...
Houston Public Media

Historic documents dating back to U.S. founding are coming to Houston

An 1823 copy of the Declaration of Independence on display in Kansas City, MO, as part of the National Archives’ Freedom Plane tour. Some of the most treasured documents in early American history are ...
Popular Mechanics

A Mushroom Is Sending Hundreds of People to the Hospital. They’re All Sharing the Same Bizarre Hallucination.

In China, a particular species of edible mushroom causes hundreds of cases of hallucinations annually, as well as some delirium, dizziness, and mania. The hallucinations tend to be of tiny “elves” ...
Penn Live

Could the United States lose the war in Iran? Why one professor thinks it will happen

Professor Jiang Xueqin made three big predictions back in 2024. The first was that Donald Trump would win the election and become President of the United States again. The second was that Donald Trump ...
The New Yorker

Do U.S. Presidents Have the Power to Declare War?

Whether a nation has just cause to begin a war and whether it conducts that war justly are matters of international law. Whether a U.S. President has the power to declare war is a matter of American ...
The New York Times

The United States and Israel Attack Iran

The country is retaliating, and the Middle East is in crisis. By Lauren Jackson and Lara McCoy We are editors for The Morning. President Trump is trying to overthrow Iran’s government. This morning, ...