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At the end of the 19th century, an estimated 100,000 people joined the Klondike Gold Rush, seeking their fortunes in the interior of Alaska and Canada’s Yukon territory. Many gold seekers who chose the arduous path inland from Alaska’s port of Valdez also discovered rich copper deposits along the way. The U.S. Army soon started work on the Valdez Trail, which would become the...

We have a responsibility to ensure that our discoveries are used in the public interest. That isn’t always easy.

The consequences if Trump followed through on his belligerent rhetoric about a “51st state” would be catastrophic.

When people at the department embrace Trump’s scorn for the law, the law, as a practical limitation on government action, ceases to exist.

Deporting illegal immigrants is lawful. Imprisoning them in El Salvador makes a mockery of the Eighth Amendment.

Mavis Gallant’s short stories are about people, especially women, who prefer to live on the social margins. I cherish one of them most of all.

It’s one thing to be fooled by a human with dubious morals, and another entirely to have your mind changed by something that doesn’t have one.

A sandstorm in northeastern Syria, the funeral of Pope Francis at the Vatican, members of ZZ Top in Australia, and much more