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Five congressional Democrats on Tuesday traveled to Louisiana, where they met with two graduate students who have been ...

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The most rigorously studied one is the so-called epigenetic clock — a reading of parts of our DNA that can be taken from a saliva sample ... This essay is adapted from his forthcoming book ...

Indiana has formed a commission to consider annexing nearby parts of Illinois. Why does it bother with formalities?

Over the course of a decades-long career, I had a number of fraught conversations with parents who desperately wanted their ...

In the story, the lion Aslan is an explicit Christ figure, both the creator and king of Narnia. To leave the character male ...

Parents won’t get a true sense of how a school is doing until this summer, Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath warned.

W ith $29trn in debt and a widening fiscal deficit, America hardly seems like a candidate for a sovereign-wealth fund. Such ...

It is apposite to accord credit where it is genuinely merited. Therefore, on the specific issue of confronting and seeking to ...

It is natural to compare a pope to his predecessors. But many of the comparisons being made now betray an ideological edge ...

At the turn of the century, the expatriate novelist visited the U.S. for the first time in decades. He left feeling more ...