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Why would a young Republican back solar but reject a carbon tax? Twenty years of survey data shows climate opinion is more complex than party labels suggest.

An international affairs professor with nearly 30 years of experience in the US intelligence community - including at the CIA and NSA - explains how to evaluate the newly released election documents ...

Allegheny County can now order treatment for people with serious mental illness. But what's driving results - the order itself or the services behind it?

An analysis of one major effort shows how to get Democrats and Republicans to agree to spend billions of dollars on a decades-long environmental restoration project.

Despite the steady decline in daily newspaper editorials, a longtime editor suggests ways for news organizations to restore the spirit of editorials that can hold public officials accountable.

A professor of international relations counted the sitting leaders on over 1,000 of the world's banknotes and coins; almost every one of them is a king or a queen.