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The Office of Personnel Management has a conduit for funding labor union PACs. James Madison famously said, “If men were angels, no government would be necessary.” They are not, and so we need ...

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People often blame social media algorithms that prioritize extreme content for increasing political polarization, but this effect has been difficult to prove. Only the platform owners have access to ...

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CORTINA D'AMPEZZO Italy, February 12 - Following are political incidents or protests that have led to the disqualification of athletes from the Olympic Games: 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics – ...

More than 20 percent of Americans express little or no confidence in scientists to “act in the best interests of the public,” according to Pew’s latest polling. Just 13 percent gave that answer in ...

Younger Americans express less trust in democratic institutions, weaker attachment to political parties, greater skepticism about how the political system works than older generations, and are less ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Gov. JB Pritzker is backing one of his longtime Statehouse allies, Rep. Margaret Croke, to be Illinois' next comptroller. Croke has represented an Illinois House district on ...

About a year ago, it seemed the sky was falling for American scientific research. The Trump administration last February cut thousands of workers at federal science agencies, squeezed the flow of ...

Divisions within the US population on social and political issues have increased by 64% since 1988, with almost all this coming after 2008, according to a study tracking polarization from the end of ...

The second fatal shooting of an American citizen by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis ignited a political firestorm. Jack Ohman leads this week’s editorial cartoon gallery with his view of ...