Politics

Your vote matters. But so does your involvement in civic actions

A dishonest creationist debating tactic shouldn’t go unchallenged in American life. Or in national politics

As Democrats convene in Chicago to make official their presidential and vice presidential nominees, Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz together are raising the prominence of health care as a 2024 election issue

Minnesota governor Tim Walz will promote climate action as Kamala Harris’s vice presidential pick, experts say

By canceling congestion pricing for drivers in New York City, the governor of New York State will hurt many retirees, who need the mass transport investments the move promised

Privacy concerns were one of the most common reasons for seeking a self-managed abortion, a recent study found

A play celebrates the agreement that opened nations worldwide to accepting the science of climate change

The high court treating the children of a highly educated slice of the U.S. as equivalent to people who descended from the history of enslavement and Jim Crow is a dishonest ruse

The U.S. and China are collaborating less on projects across scientific disciplines amid a culture of fear in both countries

The VIPER lunar rover promised a revolution in our understanding of the moon’s precious deposits of ice. Then NASA cancelled the mission

As the daughter of a cancer researcher, Kamala Harris would bring a lifelong familiarity with science to the presidency, experts say

The current presidential race has ensured that age will be a key and likely fraught consideration in future elections. Can science help determine how old is too old for a candidate before politics does?