Since the 1940s, when people started regularly using antibiotics to fight bacterial infections, these miracle drugs have saved innumerable lives. Modern medicine relies on antibiotics to stave off ...

Our risk management plans generally have assumed that hurricanes cause major impacts only within a hundred miles of the coast, but Helene (2024), Idalia (2023), Michael (2018) and Sandy (2012) have ...

Chicago and the nation are in a pressing need for answers to halt the relentless gun violence that plagues our communities. If citizens of Chicago were expecting a novel approach to reduce the ...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) reflected on last week’s bruising electoral defeats in which Republicans flipped four seats, giving them a 53-seat majority in the Senate, emphasizing ...

The most comprehensive global environment assessment ever undertaken calls for a new approach to jointly tackle the most pressing environmental issues including climate change and biodiversity loss ...

What 2026 demands is courage in land-use decisions, road pricing and letting go of car-centric assumptions that no longer ...

Did you ever learn the song, “Reading and writing and ‘rithmatic, taught to the tune of a hickory stick?” Early in the industrial era, one of the liberal ideas was to educate every young male and some ...

The new year is upon us, and with it comes the desire to better ourselves—read more, exercise more, build wealth, and be a better spouse, parent, or friend. New year resolutions abound. Along with ...