It has been clear for some time that dealing with illegal migration is a political imperative. As has often been pointed out, the numbers of people seeking asylum by irregular routes, principally by ...

I believe there is a path forward on the jail beds issue. It will require the entire community working together to solve this ...

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“The problem that Powell faces right now is a very difficult one,” Wolfers said in an MSNBC interview last week. “It is that tariffs have caused a slowdown in economic activity and rising unemployment ...

To help mitigate climate change, companies are using bioreactors to grow algae and other microorganisms that are hundreds of ...

Women's college basketball wasn't always the behemoth with storied programs like UConn, Tennessee and South Carolina ...

The man who cofounded Patreon is tired of influencers making content to get clicks. He’d rather creators earn lifelong fans—and he has a plan for that.

Mr. Schulman is the editor of The New Atlantis: A Journal of Technology & Society. He has written extensively about science reform. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the new director of the National Institutes of ...

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Differential equations are fundamental tools in physics: they are used to describe phenomena ranging from fluid dynamics to general relativity. But when these equations become stiff (i.e. they involve ...