Policy

Defending our public libraries is part of a larger struggle for the integrity of institutions essential to democracy, writes one rural sociologist

The International Code Council has approved stronger building codes to protect hospitals, schools and other structures from flooding

In the new book Personhood, historian and law professor Mary Ziegler explores how the push to grant embryos and fetuses full legal rights is reshaping U.S. reproductive health care, research and policy

Under President Trump, the Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate offices that track greenhouse gas emissions and regulate air pollution

The Trump administration’s proposed budget cuts the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), which provides funding for home heating and cooling

Einstein offers a lesson for scientists who are protesting an out-of-control nationalist administration attacking U.S. science today

New rules that trim crash reporting requirements and widen testing access for U.S. robotaxis are hailed as an innovation edge and criticized for eroding safety oversight

National Science Foundation staff were told to freeze outgoing funding days after NSF leadership introduced a new policy that requires that grants be screened for “alignment with agency priorities”

A Trump-aligned prosecutor’s attack on medical journals is a threat to your health care—and the medical establishment should not comply

President Trump is the first president in at least three decades to deny governors’ requests for funding that’s meant to protect people and property

A shameful mass propaganda campaign is unfolding in the U.S., one that will make millions of kids needlessly sick with measles

President Trump’s EPA administrator Lee Zeldin seems to be focusing on costs to industry in an effort to dismantle the scientific justification for climate regulations