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Here’s what launched the militant union leader toward a historic strike.

The most mysterious aspect of quantum mechanics is the wave function. What does it have to do with probability and statistics? Let's find out.

It’s important the left challenges language intended to suppress serious discussion of the war and its causes. You can counter an accusation of spreading disinformation or propaganda with evidence that what you are saying is true.

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ Science and Security Board has moved the hands of its Doomsday Clock forward, at “90 seconds to midnight—the closest to global catastrophe it has ever been.”

Companies get away with bad behavior when we accept their excuses that there’s just no other way to run a business.

The Biden administration is getting bad data and bad advice — but there’s a way out.

The media group was just approved to spread its brand of historical disinformation to classrooms in Florida, Oklahoma, and New Hampshire.

Storm Daniel was a Mediterranean hurricane that struck Greece, Bulgaria, Libya, Egypt and Turkey, killing thousands. Climatologists are struggling to understand whether this is a harbinger of North Africa's future.

Language was long understood as a human-only affair. New research suggests that isn’t so.

Hip-hop was rooted in politics and social justice and a diversity of voices. But now, at 50, has it become a minstrel show?