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Widespread denial accompanied the public exposure of Jeffrey Epstein’s decades-long sexual abuse and trafficking of girls and women.

After the U.S. Justice Department released millions of case documents on ...Read more

Why do disagreements about vaccines, climate change or elections often feel so personal? Our research suggests it is not simply because other people have different beliefs. It is because we think those beliefs are ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Democrats seeking to retake control of Congress are planning broad investigations into President Donald Trump and his family's business dealings as part of an agenda focused on alleged corruption and ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s chief negotiating strategy consists of keeping the other party guessing about what he might do next. As this pertains to Iran, the president has repeatedly threatened Tehran with additional ...Read more

No one can claim to have been surprised by the executive order President Donald Trump issued Monday calling for a radical transformation of childhood vaccination practices in the U.S.

After all, Trump has been beating the...Read more

America’s affordability divide is increasingly visible in Americans’ biggest purchases.

The wealthy may be doing just fine. It’s the Americans below them who increasingly are recalibrating what they can afford — a...Read more

President Donald Trump and his dangerous health secretary Bobby Kennedy Jr. struck another blow against public health by issuing an executive order intending to space out childhood vaccinations and to separate out the ...Read more

“We are the United States of America and there is nothing we can’t do if we do it together.”– ...Read more

Faced with soaring deficits, an aging population, a teetering pension system, unsustainable health-care obligations, $1 trillion in annual interest costs, rising long-term bond yields and net public debt at around 100% of ...Read more

How are Americans supposed to make a more perfect union when we can’t agree on whether we need to turn our cultural clocks forward or backward?

This question is among the more difficult that people can pose to their ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick is asking voters to return her to Congress — less than four months after she resigned from the House of Representatives.

Cherfilus-McCormick is one of five Democrats ...Read more

“You are being watched” was the tagline that opened every episode of the television series Person of Interest, which ran from 2011 to 2016 and already feels ancient. The conceit of the show was that the good guys, ...Read more

Health care innovation is built for patients who have time. ALS patients don't.

ALS reshapes time in ways that are hard to fully appreciate from the outside. Certain losses arrive earlier than expected, and once they ...Read more

If Allison Baker and Maria Garcia apply for the same job against Matthew Owens or Joe Alvarez, and Matthew or Joe gets the job despite everything else being the same, that would seem to be a typical case of gender ...Read more

If you choose to serve in the U.S. military, you should also be able to choose the best education for your children. Today, nearly 22 million children, or 40 percent of all K-12 students in the U.S., have access to some ...Read more

Sometimes you lose even when you win. That’s what it feels like trying to make ends meet in today’s economy — and our ever-shrinking safety net isn’t helping.

After years on a waiting list for subsidized housing, ...Read more

This year marks the 250th anniversary of our founders’ Declaration of Independence from Great Britain. But the constitutional democracy it enabled — designed to promote life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness — ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County election officials are examining steps ahead of the November midterms to respond to the rising popularity of election trading via prediction markets, including a possible ban on wagering ...Read more

Congress enacted some of the biggest reforms to two of America’s welfare programs in decades — the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly referred to as food stamps, and Medicaid, which provides ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Darren McAuley served 26 years in the Air National Guard with worldwide combat deployments, but it was his work as a doctor at Tampa’s veterans hospital that inspired his run as a Democrat in Tampa Bay’...Read more