After more than a century of steady, upward climb, US life expectancy hit 78.9 years in 2015. Since then, it’s been mostly ...

Robert Kirsch, an assistant professor at Arizona State University and the co-author of Be Prepared: Doomsday Prepping in the ...

Trump is threatening the independence of the Fed. That’s dangerous. The Federal Reserve arguably saved the US from a ...

Pope Leo XIV, formerly known as Robert Prevost, is the first American pontiff. He was elected on Thursday, less than three ...

Many demographers thought that the global population would stabilize around mid-century. But that’s now looking increasingly ...

In a world with too much noise and too little context, Vox helps you make sense of the news. We don’t flood you with ...

While there is no serious argument that Trump’s birthright citizenship order is legal, there are very serious arguments on ...

All the same, in its scale and intensity, and without an obvious off-ramp for the combatants, some analysts are describing ...

She focuses on housing, schools, homelessness, child care, and abortion rights, and has been reporting on these issues for ...

The Catholic Church has a new pope, and for the first time, he is an American.

Her detention “chills the speech of the millions and millions of people who are not citizens,” a federal judge said.

The result of this very human fallibility is blood on the streets. Nearly 1.2 million people die in road crashes globally ...