Freight trains could get a boost when carbon is correctly priced. But what happens when coal is the cargo?

A 5,000-year-old monument has been identified near the Sea of Galilee

Schools have come to resemble businesses, with corporate metrics for measuring success and worse outcomes for kids

The dark truth about our country's adherence to the vigilante justice of state-sanctioned executions

"The Republican Party is staggering right now ... They have offended everybody"

Experts say PPE should be liquefied into "renewable" fossil fuels and burned

Being a home-body has this positive effect but the question of how to improve energy efficiency must be asked

Crabs seem capable of sentience. This makes it difficult to kill them humanely for food

America's favorite governor of New Jersey is laying down the law against the most vulnerable inmates

Rather than defend a law that Trump loves, the VA will reinstate a hospital director whom it twice tried to fire

Thomas Piketty argues that the antidote is a global wealth tax, but it may not go far enough

Judge Terrence W. Boyle responds to conflict-of-interest charges.

Can we learn to look at violence as an aspect of pain?

In 2018, 36,560 people died in traffic collisions in the U.S.

What is the best way to boil an egg?