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Trump has promised to abolish Obama’s Clean Power Plan and back out of the Paris climate accord. But business could become a key firewall that won’t let Obama’s sustainability legacy die.
With two of the past five presidential election winners losing the popular vote, it’s hard to justify the continuation of the Electoral College.
Overt discrimination based on race is discouraged in American society. But the bar is lower when it comes to gender bias. The 2016 election is a good case study.
Tattoos often seem like a good idea in the moment, but tattoo regret is common. There is good reason, not the least of which is infection.
The traditional mode of publishing scientific research faces much criticism – primarily for being too slow and sometimes shoddily done. Maybe fewer publications of higher quality is the way forward.
Any progress on global climate aid must overcome the long-standing North-South divide on economic development and environmental protection.
After Donald Trump’s victory, a scholar says the biblical prophets can help show us the way forward: Just as there is no peace without justice, there is no healing without grief.
A little-known suit against a Mohegan tribal employee will test the limits of Indian tribes’ legal immunity.
We need to do more than teach machines to learn. We need to overcome the barriers that separate machines from us – and us from them.
Memo To Marrakech: If the U.S. drops the mantle of global leadership on climate, here are the rest of the world’s options on how to react.
Study shows the footprint of climate change is already vast and that species are trying to adapt to rising temperatures.
The polls convinced many that Clinton was headed to the White House. But the polls were misleading – and one behavioral scientist thinks emotion led respondents to mislead pollsters on purpose.
Babies first learn to recognize the rhythm and intonation of language. The process begins in the womb, where the intonation patterns are transmitted to the baby through the fluids.
At a time when politicians are struggling to gain the public’s trust, Janet Reno’s legacy as an honest, humble public servant may serve as an example moving forward from the election.
When human contact is cut off, the brain begins to act in strange ways to preserve its sanity.
A physician who has spent 25 years working within VA hospitals reflects on what it has meant to him to serve those who have served our country.
What can future politicians learn from the president-elect’s social media presence while on the campaign trail?
Democrats gained only a handful of House seats in this week’s elections, leaving Republicans in the majority. But can the GOP shift from opposing President Obama to supporting President Trump?
President-elect Trump’s distaste for Obamacare led him to say repeatedly that he would repeal it. Here’s why that may not be so easy, even with Republican control of Congress and the White House.
Climate change isn’t just an environmental problem. It is one of the fundamental economic challenges of this century.
Underlying online harassment is the false idea that events that happen on internet aren’t real. But whenever people are interacting, it’s all real.
Scholars from the U.S., Ireland, Australia and France provide perspective on President-elect Donald Trump.
Thanks to voters ignoring Big Tobacco, California may be the first smoke free society. Here’s how it happened.
People around the world were shocked when Hillary Clinton, ahead in many polls, didn’t end up the U.S.‘ president-elect. But that doesn’t mean the polls themselves were wrong.