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A new book explores how Americans came to believe in an advanced Martian civilization at the turn of the twentieth century. What does it reveal about our current obsession with the Red Planet?

Jurors in New York were asked to decide whether Nicole Daedone's once high-profile California company, OneTaste, promoted a culture of empowerment or exploitation.

Notes from the longest, cringiest Trump Cabinet meeting yet.

Zohran Mamdani has promised to make the bus fare-free, and so has Andrew Cuomo, sort of. Is New York City ready?

In May, an unprecedented landslide destroyed an Alpine village. Scientists are studying the role of climate change, and residents are trying to rebuild.

The President's authoritarian power grabs are undermining the institutional foundations of the American economy.

The former President's support for Israel abetted a humanitarian catastrophe. But Jacob Lew, the former U.S. Ambassador to the country, still thinks that the Trump White House could learn from its predecessor.

The Administration's irrational dislike of solar and wind energy imperils both the environment and the economy.

How the Trump Administration's irrational dislike of solar and wind energy imperils both the environment and the economy.

Members of Congress went back to their districts for the summer, and they discovered that being at home is just as hard as being in Washington.