Today, 61% of U.S. adults say religion is losing influence in American life, while 37% say it is gaining influence. There are sharp partisan divides on whether religion’s influence is good or bad and ...

Alicia Bugeja Said is contesting the upcoming election on the 3rd and 12th Districts under the Partit Laburista ticket. We ...

For centuries, Dante Alighieri’s Inferno has been treated as theology, political commentary and medieval literature folded ...

THE IDEA THAT BLOCKING PUBLICATION of these studies is about upholding scientific standards is especially tough to believe ...

In 1871, the “discovery” of marginal economic analysis soon took a wrong turn, moving towards quantification, data, and ...

After decades of conspiracy theories, classified hearings and grainy cockpit footage, the White House has released a number ...

It turns out that some medical researchers may be tempted to do the same. A study just published in PLOS Biology has uncovered a heap of hype in medical science. Spin is defined as research ...

For Democrats or, for that matter, anyone who believes in checks and balances, things are starting to look up.

After winning a Breakthrough Prize, the world’s most lucrative science award, theoretical physicist David Gross is using the moment to warn of nuclear war’s existential threat—and how we can escape it ...

The violence at the White House Correspondents’ Assn. dinner on Saturday underscores how dangerous this political moment is in the United States.

Speculation about links among a handful U.S. scientists who have died or disappeared in recent years was largely confined to niche online communities less than two months ago ...

Anthropologist who studied the values that society applies in making decisions and climber in the first party to ascend the south-west face of Everest ...