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Political watchdogs like PolitiFact and the Washington Post's "Fact-Checker" are accused of favoring Democrats—but it is the facts themselves that have a liberal bias.

A new campaign unites caregivers and care-receivers with a revolutionary vision.

Law enforcement appears to be regularly sending subpoenas to social media companies. This time, the target found out about it.

A case of scientific misconduct at Harvard.

Maine Governor Paul LePage's secret removal of a mural celebrating the state's labor history is just one in a long line of struggles over publicly-funded depictions of American workers.

There are some seriously progressive initiatives underway in the 112th Congress, and they deserve more attention than they're getting.

An American nonprofit is offering HIV-positive Kenyan women $40 to use IUDs as long-term birth control—and women are taking them up on it. Is this the right way to prevent the transmission of HIV to children?

With the Arab world's pro-democracy uprisings comes a resurgence for the "humanitarian hawks."

Finishing the Hat makes clear Stephen Sondheim’s belief that being an artist requires intellectual vigilance.