The Affordable Care Act was behind the last lapse in federal funding in 2013, and Democrats threaten revenge if Republicans try to jam through their repeal bill before a spending agreement is reached.
A curious person’s guide to the laws that keep the air clean and the water pure
A new essay anthology captures the power of city parks.
The economic effects could be minor; the cultural ones, more profound.
On Tuesday, the state's electorate will decide an issue first brought to prominence by Theodore Roosevelt nearly a century ago.
How animal displays have shaped, and been shaped by, humans’ relationship with the natural world: an Object Lesson
It’s an idea with a long history.
Demonstrations in nearly 100 cities will follow Officer Darren Wilson's grand jury announcement.