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A more robust welfare state won't change the fact that tradeoffs exist, even for relatively wealthy Americans who choose to have kids.

Experts caution mass killings are just one statistic and crime is complex.

A record number of Colorado children died in 2024 as a result of domestic violence, despite a statewide reduction in overall homicide.

American democracy is straining under countless pressures, many of them rooted in structural problems that go back to the nation’s founding. Chief among them is the “pick one” plurality voting system – also called winner-take-all – used to elect nearly all of the 520,000 government officials in the United States.

Parenthood is already expensive, but a new global study shows that things could get tougher for parents. The annual cost of raising a family in the United States could top $82,000 by 2035, according to Remitly's Global Family Inflation Index. 

I'm sure Texas ultra-MAGAs will rush to vote for a non-Texan Colombian immigrant...

The figure comes as the UN reports a ‘devastating’ collapse of HIV prevention services around the world

Despite the speed at which it is progressing, AI is getting far too little discussion in Congress, the media and within the general population. That has got to change

Admiral Bradley faces war crime allegations after ordering a lethal strike on shipwrecked men, exposing tensions between US policy and international law.