Recurring legal setbacks haven’t deflected the White House from its plan to impose a worldwide tariff regime. Whether the fourth variant of this protectionist strategy, proposed last week, will fare ...

The most encouraging redistricting news of the year came from two states that did nothing. Illinois lawmakers adjourned without drawing new congressional maps. South Carolina legislators, including ...

The Daily Sentinel’s editorial board has never endorsed in a primary election. That made sense when voting in primaries was limited to party membership. Primaries were considered “party business.” The ...

Five prominent obesity scientists, including the editor-in-chief of a leading diabetes journal and researchers who work with major pharmaceutical companies, were kicked out of the industry’s biggest ...

A new expert-informed guide to writing effective peer review responses has just been published in Conservation Physiology, following up on a widely-read guide to writing constructive peer reviews.

Because e-bikes “fall into a convoluted mix of transportation policies, they remain contentious and unable to fulfill their potential,” says Stephen Zoepf. Americans “have treated small, powered ...

Scholarly authors often feel unsure about what happens behind the closed doors of academic publishers once their manuscripts are accepted for peer review. While most authors know about the peer-review ...

Jeff Bezos said The Washington Post would no longer publish opinion pieces critical of free markets. Recent editorials show just how seriously the paper has taken this mandate. During his first 10 ...

We’re a little more than a week into the new Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) Challenge System in Major League Baseball, and if nothing else, the results are at least entertaining. We’ve know the system is ...

It feels counterintuitive that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration would refuse to consider Moderna’s application for a new flu vaccine made with Nobel Prize-winning mRNA technology. Public health ...

The Congressional Budget Office released its latest 10-year budget estimates this week. The news is bleak. Of greater concern, however, is that few elected officials in Washington seem to care. The ...