Professor Michael Smith of Emporia State University says that future plans for Venezuela are still up in the air.

"When she became first lady, she took a back seat. But for many, she is the power behind the throne or a top adviser," said Carmen Arteaga, a doctor of political science.

Expect the unexpected, the saying goes, and that was certainly true in 2025. President Donald Trump was a major source of global and domestic disruption, but the year’s instability was also driven by ...

Americans feel more politically connected by generation than they do by race or gender, CNN polling data finds.

Many New Year's traditions are meant to bring prosperity in the months ahead, but America's relationship to wealth is ...

During the 1st year of his second presidency, Trump and his administration changed US science beyond recognition. Officials started instantly firing thousands of researchers and other government ...

A quiet policy proposal to shift America’s childhood vaccination schedule toward Denmark’s leaner schedule is on pause.

For all of the political chaos that American science endured in 2025, aspects of this country’s research enterprise made it ...

Transitions are professional organizer Laura Olivares’ working life. As co-founder of Silver Solutions, she works with senior ...

He had built a life that seemed the epitome of the American ideal: a successful career as an OB-GYN, delivering about a dozen ...

As the year ends, the legal community, ever the bulwark of process and the definition of political stability, lies in almost incoherent tatters, R. Bruce Anderson writes.

One of the defining themes of the past 11 months, and certainly one most pertinent to the climate beat, was “attacks on science and expertise,” which seem likely to continue into 2026.