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In an effort to attract more right-leaning faculty, some elite universities are borrowing tactics long used to promote racial diversity.

Catch up on stories about an AncestryDNA test that revealed a medical secret, 24 books to get lost in this summer, and more.

For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

The executive branch is relying on the language of the law as cover to claim that it is complying with court orders when in fact it is not.

A growing number of climate activists are taking up a fresh idea as a rallying cry and a legal strategy: Nature, in all its manifestations, is alive.

A distinct set of six institutions and traditions makes the country hard to subjugate to an authoritarian’s will.

The country is sliding from an era of politics forged by social connections at the neighborhood level to one where cultural and ideological polarization dominates.

Republicans routinely criticized Democrats for rushing bills through Congress. Now that they’re in power, they don’t seem to mind.

RFK Jr. is prepared to rework the FDA’s official assessment of the abortion pill mifepristone based at least in part on a questionable report.

A new Supreme Court ruling shows how the American right has gone from fearing big government to embracing it.