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In a rare calm moment during a historically active Atlantic hurricane season, an international team of climate scientists on Monday published a new study in the journal Nature Climate Change showing that human-caused global heating is making the world's oceans more "stable"—which, as co-author Michael Mann explained, is "very bad news."

Mann, director of the Earth System Science Center

Despite new data released Friday by the Labor Department showing modest job gains in August, the U.S. economy has a long way to go before it regains prepandemic employment levels. The rate of job recovery has slowed significantly since June, in part due to the expiration of a raft of stimulus measures from the CARES Act in March.

Millions of Americans remain unemployed, and while some

Americans across partisan, ideological, and racial lines are rethinking the country’s criminal justice system. This is entirely appropriate—and necessary. By situating decades-long trends in crime and punishment in the appropriate historical and comparative contexts, William Galston and Elizabeth McElvein hope to provide citizens and policymakers with a framework for assessing the

Top aides to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo were alarmed: A report written by state health officials had just landed, and it included a count of how many nursing home residents in New York had died in the pandemic.

The number — more than 9,000 by that point in June — was not public, and the governor’s most senior aides wanted to keep it that way. They rewrote the report to take it out, according