The auto industry needs fewer cheerleaders and more skeptics. Like Carlos Tavares.

The drug mifepristone is safe. In fact, what’s unsafe is its absence, as the lack of the crucial abortion-inducing drug will push women to have abortions in more dangerous ways, which is why it’s been FDA-approved for more than 20 years.

The list of Republican hopefuls for the 2024 presidential nomination keeps growing, but so does their timid silence whenever the topic of Donald Trump comes up. His political vulnerabilities are out there for the world to see, a gigantic target just begging to be exploited after his arrest Tuesday on charges related to hush money payments to a porn star and two other individuals.

Should a 13-year-old be working a hazardous job at night?

The White House co-hosted its second Summit for Democracy last week. Attendance was mostly virtual. Kind of like democracy itself for those in authoritarian nations. And even for some living in ostensible democracies.

In less than two years, the U.S. could face a shortage of up to 450,000 nurses. The health-care system won’t be able to fill this gap with half the potential workforce on the sidelines: More must be done to recruit men into nursing.

About two-thirds of all U.S. residents who file federal income taxes typically get a refund. Unfortunately, this year I am among the other third who owe the Internal Revenue Service money.

It’s not too early for Republicans to start thinking about a winning ticket in 2024 – one that will likely include a dinged-up Donald Trump at the top.

When we asked GPT-3, an extremely powerful and popular artificial intelligence language system, whether you’d be more likely to use a paper map or a stone to fan life into coals for a barbecue, it preferred the stone.

To hear it from Donald Trump and his supporters, his prosecution in New York is an unprecedented abuse of the court system for political ends based on the most trivial of charges. Trump, of course, uses far more colorful language to make that point, but even former Vice President Mike Pence — no friend of Trump — says that an “unprecedented indictment of a former president” built on campaign-finance abuses is an “outrage.”

Tens of millions of chocolate bunnies get sold in the U.S. every Easter. Here are six articles about chocolate from The Conversation’s archive – great reading while you’re nibbling the ears off your own bunny (if you’re one of the three-quarters of Americans who start at the top).

In times of crisis and chaos, faith communities regularly find ourselves on the front lines. We are often trusted peacemakers and mediators with our members, communities, and local officials. We are stakeholders in conversations on important and occasionally divisive political, social and cultural debates.

Considering how much ground U.S. students lost during the pandemic, it would seem self-evident that they should be spending more time in the classroom to catch up. Yet a growing number of school districts across the country are doing the opposite, by moving to a four-day school week. Advocates claim the change can help schools save money and attract and retain teachers. It’s also bound to leave students even further behind.

Decades ago, when the late Harry Reid was relatively new to the upper chamber, a book arrived at our offices courtesy of the Democratic senator. It was “The Farm Fiasco” by libertarian author James Bovard, a piercing work that critically examined the labyrinth of subsidies, handouts, pork and market distortions that has characterized American agricultural policy since the Great Depression.

There was once a stigma attached to online dating: Less than a decade ago, many couples who had met online would make up stories for how they met rather than admit that they had done so via an app.

Indicting a former president on criminal charges is an extremely serious matter. The charges brought against former President Donald Trump Thursday by the district attorney in Manhattan mark the first time that a past commander in chief has ever been indicted with a crime.

“Murder most foul,” cries the ghost of Hamlet’s father to explain his own killing in Shakespeare’s play.