Trump’s Budget Could Hurt Manufacturing and Innovation
The president’s spending blueprint calls for cuts to federal programs that underpin technology breakthrough and support jobs.
The president’s spending blueprint calls for cuts to federal programs that underpin technology breakthrough and support jobs.
Judge Derrick Watson’s imaginative reasoning asserts a new power to disregard formal law if the president’s words create a basis for mistrusting his motives.
The president’s budget suggests entirely defunding these bodies, from the Appalachian Regional Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.
After a federal judge in Hawaii blocked a second immigration order on the basis that it was no different than the first, the president basically said he was right.
Schools that perform unexpectedly well in the NCAA Tournament net more prospective students the following year.
Hiding in a forest for 27 years, a man found what the rest of us can no longer comprehend: solitude in nature.
With no experience in business, one family opens an organic dining space on their 300-year-old property.
“If we don't have women in the tech space, we won't even be asking ourselves some of the right questions.”
Tech companies are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to improve conditions for female employees. Here’s why not much has changed—and what might actually work.
Despite judicial setbacks, federal law leaves open the possibility that the president’s new executive order might prevail––if he can keep quiet.
A report in The Forward links Trump’s terrorism adviser to a Nazi-linked Hungarian fraternal group.
The Appalachian Regional Commission distributes grants in states that voted for the president, and works to revitalize coal-mining communities.
The administration’s proposal includes cuts to federal aid programs and increased funding for school choice.
The Dutch populist never really wanted to become prime minister, according to his brother.
With his first building in New York, the architect Tadao Ando takes the material to new heights.
Private funding isn't enough to offset the president's proposed budget cuts, they say.
A Kafkaesque fiscal deal cut years ago is set to gut the White House’s spending proposal.
In a short film, a Columbia University astrophysicist explains the mysterious substance that makes up over 25 percent of the universe.
Women developed computer science. Today, the industry is mostly men.
A short film on a group of young people who meet every week in the name of freedom of expression
A father-son team is working on a project in the Siberian Arctic called Pleistocene Park, where resurrected woolly mammoths will fight climate change.
The short film What a Ride is an ode to one man’s passion for speed and California roads.
A 20-minute film takes us to Sevnica, Slovenia, now preparing for a tourism boom thanks to the 2016 election.
The administration’s early weeks have seen the president pulled between his own nationalist agenda and the libertarian-infused economic policies of House Speaker Paul Ryan.
The White House blueprint increases funding for the Department of Homeland Security, while taking an incremental approach.
In percentage terms, the president’s proposal offsets a modest increase in military funding with historic cuts to domestic programs.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the ousted top federal prosecutor for Chicago offered two different visions this week.
Two of the most prominent public intellectuals in America, Cornel West and Robert P. George, have joined forces in defense of old liberal truths.
Allocating more money for defense and a lot less for diplomacy, the White House is unveiling a spending proposal that’s meant to reflect campaign promises more than it’s meant to get through Congress.
The White House is making a habit of labeling outrageous claims “jokes” after the fact.
The U.S. central bank's decision on Wednesday was widely expected, and is a sign of the economy's strength.
His policies may fail to deliver, but his rhetoric answers a question millions of Americans are asking about a globalized economy: What about me?
After 50 days in the White House, the president’s heterodox brand of populism is already melting into traditional conservatism.
Out of all the interest groups involved in the American health system, the current Republican proposal focuses on rewarding the country’s highest earners.
A new report argues that companies haven’t been making the kinds of investments that help American workers get more done.
State Street Global Advisors commissioned the work as part of a broader push to get more women onto corporate boards.
Private-equity firms have been rapidly buying and selling off companies for decades, and workers in Lancaster, Ohio, are living with the consequences.
Tell us your birthday, and we’ll show you how the world has changed since you were born.
You’ve already lived through enough to fill history books. Consider this a sneak preview of what those books might say.
A computer model is in the works to simulate how New Yorkers would respond in the the first 30 days after a nuclear attack.
The Justice Department has indicted four Russians for their roles in a cyberattack on Yahoo that compromised half a billion user accounts.
Around the world, slippers are used to keep the outside out of the home. An Object Lesson
After six weeks of brutally bad PR, the ridesharing giant is ratcheting up its defense.
Emergency call lines in the United States rarely fail, yet they're more vulnerable than ever.
Inside the battle for the future of a technology that could really, truly change the world
The parliamentary government that allowed Geert Wilders’s rise may also be the one that suppressed his victory.
Worse-than-expected results for the Netherlands’s Geert Wilders are only the latest sign that the American president’s poor standing is harming politicians aligned with him.
“There is a big open space in the Democratic Party right now,” says Senator Chris Murphy.
India’s festival of colors is usually a religious and cultural celebration, but this year it had a distinctly partisan hue.
A collection of Recep Tayyip Erdogan's limited range of insults
A tale of democratic resurgence
Ecuadorians living in the shadow of the volcano Cotopaxi experience a unique kind of trauma while biding their time before it blows.
In a bid to save his father, a physiologist is helping explain why being thin doesn’t guarantee metabolic health.
Scandinavia uses giant mirrors, light-therapy clinics, and even positive thinking to overcome seasonal depression, but the disorder remains mysterious.
GINA only applies to health insurance and employment, but a new Republican bill would weaken even those protections.
Fewer people would sign up for employer-sponsored plans, and fewer employers would offer coverage.
A breast-cancer survivor’s unlikely therapy for people looking to return to life before chemo
From the EPA, to the NIH, and NASA, research is not a priority in the administration’s fiscal blueprint.
And it opens the door to the dark side of personalized medicine—personalized discrimination.
Clinical trials with mice have mostly failed, but the bigger, smarter rodents have more to reveal about human brains and behavior.
A new book explores the psychology of mastering skills and absorbing information.
How mass extinctions inform our understanding of human-caused climate change
A mysterious hunting accident provides a new test for wildlife forensics.
For six years now, Syrians have endured the loss and hardship caused by a protracted civil war.
President Trump’s budget proposal would have a disproportionate impact on organizations in rural and underserved communities.
The cult Comedy Central show begins its final season, which is as darkly satisfying as ever.
Disney’s newest live-action remake can’t shake the legacy of the original masterpiece.
The fallen archangel and antagonist of the epic poem Paradise Lost was a self-made, individualistic iconoclast.
Criticism of the rapper for firing a toy gun at a presidential lookalike fits a recent pattern of blowback to dark artistic expressions.
The prolific cookbook author, who introduced ciabatta to Americans, died at age 76.
The rockers’ ninth album dabbles in mystery and psychedelia without sacrificing the band’s appeal.
A settlement will merge the district’s historically black and white schools.
“This is it? These are the most egregious kids in New York City?"
Wyoming is the latest state to cut spending for K-12 schools.
The influence of the office has waxed and waned with each administration. How will it fare under Betsy DeVos?
A new report says two-thirds of community-college students don’t have enough to eat, and 14 percent are homeless.
Schools near Detroit have reworked curriculum to include both technical and soft skills.
Public-university and community-college students could benefit from a new financial-aid package.
“The volcanic eruptions that marked the start of the Great Dying were absolutely monstrous.”
A West Virginia proposal to help the coal industry by paring back safety regulations may actually protect neither miners or their jobs.
Schools are closed and flights canceled as winter-storm warnings are in effect from eastern West Virginia to Maine.
The vast majority of the readers who responded to our note asking “Is a Long Life Really Worth It?” answered “nope, not really.”
The images were posted in “Marines United,” a 30,000-member Facebook group for male-only active Marines and veterans.
Nearly two-dozen Jewish community centers and day schools in nearly a dozen states received bomb threats.
Peak bloom has typically fallen around early April.
This week, our “Americans at Work” photo essay features photographs of Melissa Eich, a speech pathologist in Charlottesville, Virginia, taken by her husband Matt Eich.
An excerpt from a feature documentary on LGBTQ refugees advocating for better representation and resettlement
In a short film, 4-year-old Almas and 10-year-old Mustafa explain what it was like to leave Iraq for Oregon.
One vote and the perils of over-interpretation
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