The US president-elect ran on a promise to get rid of the Department of Education. That may not be so easy say experts, but they foresee school curricula getting much more conservative and Christian ...

A punitive tax on payments sent overseas to the families of immigrants would have a cascading set of consequences — all of ...

The buyout of Holy Family from bankrupt Steward Health Care has transformed Lawrence General from a standalone facility into ...

In response to political and fiscal pressures, and with crime rates well below their 1990s peak, jails and prisons are shuttering. One estimate found that 21 states closed prisons between 2000 and ...

ProPublica identified 20 schools in the state that likely opened as segregation academies and have received almost $10 ...

Good morning and welcome to the Under the Dome newsletter. I’m Emily Vespa. First up, a dispatch from my colleague Brian ...

A far better response would have been to apply the rule to all schools. Trump could still do this in his second term, striking a far more powerful blow against bad elements in the U.S. system of ...

More than any other factor, high prices for consumer goods shifted the country to the right and delivered the presidency to ...

Oil and gas company Phillips 66 has been charged with allegedly dumping hundreds of thousands of gallons of wastewater into L ...

The view of the federal department as a source of malign leftist influence is backwards. Good ideas are out there, and there needs to be a central authority to disseminate best practices and insist on ...

US prosecutors submitted a document Wednesday asking for Google's Alphabet parent company to sell off its Chrome browser, among other remedies. Whether that actually happens won't be decided until ...

The oil refiner is accused of illegally discharging hundreds of thousands of gallons of industrial waste during the pandemic.