The disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has caused international controversy.

West delivered an impassioned speech on American industry and transport, even pitching a high-tech plane to Apple.

Haley, who's at times been both a supporter and critic of the president, reportedly "shocked" White House officials by announcing the end of her two-year tenure as a U.N. ambassador.

The White House quoted the president as telling ABC News reporter Cecilia Vega that she's "never thanking."

U.S. Supreme Court justices receive lifetime appointments to the bench, but many wonder if indefinite terms do more harm to our legal system than good.

American farmers are expected to traverse a rocky financial road in the coming months.

Ranking the world's most corrupt nations for 2018.

Eugene Gholz, the associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, posits that President Trump's decision to suspend U.S. military operations on the Korean peninsula negates decades of foreign policy.

Evangelical Christians are abandoning their core beliefs to follow a cult leader, says Reza Aslan.

Fascism very much could be alive and well in America in today's toxic political climate. After all, the appeal of fascism breeds in unhealthy democracies. We can’t be too careful, says political expert Rob Riemen.

How relatable was Trump’s speech? To evaluate this objectively, you could look at what reading level it was at.

 

President Donald Trump veered away from his typical protectionist rhetoric at the World Economic Forum in his remarks on the benefits of global cooperation.

French president Emmanuel Macron recently announced plans to close all of the country's coal-fired power plants two years ahead of schedule.

Research from my PrejudiceLab at Goldsmiths, University of London shows that people who score high on the collective narcissism scale are particularly sensitive to even the smallest offences to their group’s image.

The U.S. government has shut down 18 times in the past four decades, but this most recent instance has proven unique.

Want to tax corporations without scaring them off, outsmart a calculating kid, or get rid of the world's nuclear warheads? Think like a game theorist.

A massive solar project has just been completed, and its specs are impressive.

Middle America is tired of those latte-sipping liberals and their "elite media" hanging out in New York City, but Ariel Levy makes the case that Americans aren't as different from one another as they'd like to think.

There's a lot of talk about Russia's hostility to America, thanks to their apparent interference in the 2016 U.S. election. But in the grand scheme of things, Russia is small potatoes.

Are you more likely to think everything is going well with your finances if the politics of your country’s leaders align with yours? One new study says yes. 

Look at Wall Street in 2008, and the White House right now. Diversity—of people and cognitive perspectives—is crucial for avoiding failure.

Several interpretations of the Constitution say that Trump has already broken the law by threatening free speech concerning the NFL. When can we start impeachment proceedings?

The Washington Post created a Twitter account that automatically retweets all the tweets from the people whom President Donald Trump follows.

Populism won two big votes in 2016, while the global worldview suffered... well... "big league". But how did we get to this big discord? And can populism and globalization ever get along?

We tell Google things we wouldn't tell our loved ones, or even our own doctors.

A new study suggests that sensitivity to the emotion of disgust affects one's attitudes on immigration.

Since the March for Science was planned, it's been mired in controversy from both supporters and those who think it's politicized.

Bill Nye, CEO of The Planetary Society, offers an important 5-point plan for President Trump on space exploration and NASA's budget.

 

Dr. Larry Brilliant played a key role in eradicating smallpox from the world – so what are the biggest dangers humanity faces now? Brilliant rates politics as on-par with infectious disease.

If we could jump 50 years into the future, what will our world look like? Flying cars? Hologram phones? Bill Nye sees two technological paths ahead – and we're in the fork between them at this very moment.