Social scientists say they’ve seen an increase in the number of threats and incidents of harassment of public officials since ...

Tim Kaine, Virginia’s Minnesota-born, Kansas-raised junior U.S. senator, rarely passes on an opportunity to share his adoptive state’s story with others. That’s because the Democrat believes that ...

Milk is never just milk. It’s saturated with meaning, emotion and contradiction, and provokes strong responses in people.

After the Supreme Court appeared poised to weaken a key provision of the landmark civil rights law, both parties began to ...

There are three inevitabilities in life: death, taxes, and the developers behind a military shooter saying that their game isn’t political in nature. It was all but assured that we would see that last ...

Religion focuses on the unknown and the unseen. While religion has been a tremendous force for good, it has also poisoned politics and given rise to extremists who target “the other.” I remember first ...

A new Alabama law on human smuggling, one of several bills on illegal immigration proposed by Republican legislators this year, takes effect Wednesday. The bill by Sen. Wes Kitchens, R-Arab, makes it ...

The poll results identify five distinct types of independents, with big implications for American politics. As party loyalty fades and the definition of that elusive swing voter shifts, elections are ...

"The consumption of plastics is overwhelming right now," Elopak CEO Thomas Körmendi said during the "Growing Climate Solutions in Food System" panel. And sustainable packaging has between 35 to 70 ...

President Donald Trump is highlighting former President Joe Biden's use of an autopen, a device that mechanically replicates a signature. An autopen picture hangs in place of a portrait of Biden in ...

Pundits and politicians conceal the truth: it’s all around us, perpetrated by our political system itself. Georges Sorel, writing in 1908, gave a very different account of violence in his classic, ...

"Covering agriculture — that's got to be a pretty good gig," said the man who accidentally sat down at a table filled largely with Agweek personnel. Covering agriculture as a journalist means not ...