Paul Ryan’s health pitch, the CIA leak, lab-grown woolly mammoths, and more.
Speaker Paul Ryan touted the new health-care bill using PowerPoint.
As the WB show turns 20, a look at how it dealt with grief in season five
Income growth is faster at the bottom than at the top. Thank a growing economy, falling unemployment, and minimum-wage hikes across the country.
When a would-be reformer meets one of the most corrupt institutions in a country infamous for graft
Why has the president decided to go all-in on the Republican insurance plan, and what will he do if it fails?
“It really comes down to a binary choice,” the speaker declared on Thursday, rejecting major changes sought by conservatives.
The abstract film Good Morning has a powerful message.
He has no evidence. He’ll successfully mislead people anyway.
Thermal images reveal what parts of the screen were tapped, even after it’s left untouched for 30 seconds.
Cassini has captured unprecedented views of the oddly shaped Pan during the spacecraft’s final weeks.
Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts’s Vietnam-era reimagination of the giant ape is just good enough to make you wish it were better.
Six years after the devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami struck Japan, the evacuation zone around the crippled nuclear power plant remains devoid of humans—but the boars have moved in.
Peter Moskowitz’s new book on gentrification outlines how local governments cede their power over residents’ lives to private interests.
Professional organizations are speaking up.
It’s easy to feel comfortable in a space that magically cleans itself.
Access to medical treatment may help solve unrelated, difficult societal problems, a study finds
The debate around the new French arthouse drama This Is Our Land says a lot about the rise of the country’s far-right.
Vice President Mike Pence declined to say whether he thought the president’s allegation is true, while the White House press secretary has insisted he won’t discuss the matter at all.
Rarely, extending your neck over the ledge of a sink can cut off blood flow to the brain.
Discovered 70 years after it was written, Claude McKay’s Amiable With Big Teeth depicts an overlooked time in African American history when communism and black nationalism found themselves entangled.
A father-son team is working on a project in the Siberian Arctic called Pleistocene Park, where resurrected woolly mammoths will fight climate change.
In Arctic Siberia, Russian scientists are trying to stave off catastrophic climate change—by resurrecting an Ice Age biome complete with lab-grown woolly mammoths.
The GOP’s plan to repeal Obamacare clears its first hurdle, Barcelona’s win for the ages, and more from the United States and around the world.
The athletic programs at highly selective institutions are out-of-sync with the schools' missions.
A comprehensive guide to reported encounters between the president’s aides and Putin’s government.
As right-wing parties across the West indulge fascist impulses, should the United States pursue a relatively restrictionist or libertarian policy?
In the latest entry in their ongoing conversation, two historians debate the significance of the president’s wiretapping claims.
The contents of the latest Wikileaks dump are perhaps less revealing than the fact of the leaks themselves.
Diversity among union members—particularly in race and occupation—translates to splintering political allegiances.