For years, scientists have insisted that science is not political. This has always been fiction. Yet recently, the politicization of science and scientific research has become increasingly visible.

Did Stephens raise a legitimate perspective? Or were his claims outside the accepted boundaries of public debate? Erik Wemple, media critic for the Washington Post told To the Point that dealing with ...

The political divide between the left and the right in the US has become particularly stark in recent years, and it seems this gap is even apparent in how the two major political parties use science ...

We citizens are bombarded almost daily with dispatches from the front lines of the progress of medical science. We may assume that this progress translates directly into immediate improvement in the ...

The Department of Political Science is seeing a shift that stands out against broader trends across university enrollment.

Benjamin L. de Bivort is the co-chair of the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. FM: Your research focuses on evolution through ...

In his run for governor of Maine, Nirav Shah holds standard Democratic positions. He aims, his campaign says, “to fix housing, fund health care, feed kids, and fuel growth, while fighting back against ...