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The NIH is one of several agencies where a political appointee will have to sign off on grant awards. Wesley Lapointe/The Washington Post via Getty Images…

A broad section of Britain’s right has spent the summer behaving as if it would like a repeat of last year’s racist riots. As politicians and…

Our world is full of grifters. Or so it seems, considering how often that word is thrown around in public life these days.This year alone, Zarah…

Hostage is a political thriller, and observes the conventions in many ways. The pace is absolutely flawless, it’s twisty, it has emotional heft. The British prime…

On Thursday, the Trump administration issued an executive order asserting political control over grant funding, including all federally supported research. The order requires that any announcement…

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It is one of the questionable perks of Donald Trump’s “wall of sound” approach to communication that the slightly icky moment when the world of Maga…

A new party has launched in the UK, and it didn’t take long for it to become the subject of frantic speculation. Will it split the…

Smithsonian Institution says it will update exhibit to reflect all impeachments of US presidents following backlash.The parent organisation of a top-visited history museum in the United…

Donald Trump’s 1 August tariffs deadline did what it was always intended to do. It kept the markets and the nations guessing amid last-minute uncertainty. It…