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Philadelphia is poised to choose a vulnerable barcode voting system after a “Blue Ribbon Commission” hid its criticism of such systems in the endnotes of its election-security report. Meanwhile, the Pennsylvania auditor general has opened a probe into Philadelphia’s selection process, which appears designed to favor one vendor.
Forty-six years after the release of the Pentagon Papers, Ellsberg reveals another set of documents on how nuclear war might have been waged in the 1950s and 60s.
“Right to Try” legislation would allow pharmaceutical companies to give experimental drugs to desperate patients — with no chance of being liable if things go wrong. Supporters of the measure cheer this approach but critics see dangers.
In his State of the Union address, President Donald Trump urged Congress to pass a controversial bill promising greater access to untested drugs for terminally ill patients. But critics charge the bill would only deliver false hope and result in even less patient protection by removing FDA oversight.
Some Senate Republicans, previously critical of their own party’s controversial tax bill, were silent as they helped move it out of committee to the floor — apparently unmoved by the dozens of protesters who shouted “shame” as they voted.
Shifting to solar energy and electric vehicles could trash water supplies and endanger biodiversity unless “antiquated” 19th-century mining laws are updated.
Despite deforestation pledges, agribusiness is still clearing forest in the Gran Chaco — but Indigenous people are fighting to expel ranchers from their ancestral lands
The author finds out more and more about the elusive man who may have murdered President John F. Kennedy’s mistress.
Thought-provoking comments on what the election revealed: hidden sources of hope, as well as danger.
Dispute over Green Party presidential candidates could force local election officials to make revisions, miss deadlines.
The House Ethics Committee announced Tuesday that it would end some of the investigations into the behavior of MAGA firebrand Matt Gaetz (R-FL) but begin others.
Often insightful, usually humorous, and always irreverent: Our Sunday editorials paired with cartoons are regularly among our most-read pieces. Here are some of our favorites from this year.