If you want to get people’s attention to address a problem, making it seem as big as possible is a nearly universal reflex. Across more than a dozen experiments, they find that describing how big a ...

Democrats have a problem: too many problems. Identifying the problems is not one of those problems. “Democrats have a trust problem,” suggests Representative Jason Crow of Colorado. “Democrats have a ...

The clash between President Trump and Elon Musk is the latest twist in a whirlwind week of political drama and global headlines. Here to discuss it are Brooks and Capehart. That's New York Times ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 13 (Reuters Breakingviews) - It’s tough running high-stakes trade negotiations on geological time. Ever-fractious talks between China and the United States spiraled into escalatory ...

The prospect of a humiliating pile-up in the governor's race has put the state’s political class increasingly on edge.

Many people around the world have major concerns about made-up news and information. A median of more than eight-in-ten adults across 35 countries surveyed say it is a big problem in their country, ...

I worked my first New York City mayoral race as an 11-year-old handing out campaign literature for John Lindsay. Back then, the idea that the Democratic Party could nominate a 33-year-old socialist ...

Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand Americans’ views of problems facing the country. For this analysis, we surveyed 5,086 adults from Jan. 27 to Feb. 2, 2025. Everyone who took part ...

KENT COUNTY, De. -- Drivers are reportedly flying through Little Creek, a small town with a population of around 200 people. The culprits, according to neighbors, are not locals but out-of-towners ...

Researchers have found a faster, more accurate way to design magnetic “bottles” that hold plasma for fusion power. Using symmetry theory instead of traditional, slow Newton-based calculations, they ...