I first heard Charlie Kirk speak on a bitterly cold February night in 2018 at the University of Michigan. I went to the event out of curiosity, nudged by friends active in campus conservative life. At ...

Charleroi, Pennsylvania, is a deeply troubled place. The former steel town, built along a stretch of the Monongahela River, south of Pittsburgh, has experienced the typical Rust Belt rise and fall.

In 1862, The Lancet published a lengthy analysis titled “The Influence of Railway Travelling on Public Health.” The invention of the railroad was also the invention of railway accidents, which media ...

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We never denied that people’s circumstances can affect their mental health. Poverty, discrimination, abusive relationships, ...

With syllabi heavily focused on a broad array of primary sources, they are far more rigorous—and far less ideological—than ...

Republicans lost the 2026 midterms in part because they misunderstood the immigration beliefs of Americans—including Hispanics.

In the wake of the joint U.S.–Israeli strikes on Iran last summer and this past February, counterterrorism experts and government officials have identified the prospect of Iranian sleeper cells on ...

Though boasting many of the same natural advantages as San Francisco, the Bay Area city is awash in dysfunction, especially ...

Mao Zedong, one of the icons of the Democratic Socialists of America, once wrote that a revolution is not a dinner party. But ...

Later this month, traders are likely to get a chance at the first AI mega-IPO, as Anthropic sells shares to the public.