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Grassroots activists believe that high-altitude advocacy is taking precedence over helping patients access care.

As the Biden Administration approves new weaponry for Ukrainian forces, Putin has invoked Russia's nuclear arsenal, but neither move is likely to significantly alter the trajectory of the war.

The first transgender person elected to Congress discusses how to respond to a bathroom bill and transphobic attacks from other House members, including Speaker Mike Johnson.

New research suggests that the Democrats' struggles in communities battling fentanyl addiction had little to do with economic theory or messaging--it was, more simply, a failure of political attention.

Amid increasingly stringent abortion laws, doctors who provide maternal care have been fleeing the state.

The vacation hot spot has been overrun by people--whose habits are drawing fast-moving animals with sharp claws and insatiable appetites.

A future generation of robots will not be programmed to complete specific tasks. Instead, they will use A.I. to teach themselves.

In the second MAGA Administration, the hedge-fund manager Scott Bessent will have the job of acting as a voice of reason.

"The Golden Girls" reframed senior life as being about socializing and sex. But did the cultural narrative of advanced age as continued youth twist the dial too far?

It's not clear whether the popular gesture is celebrating the President-elect or mocking him. But does that distinction even mean anything?