The term "political science" used to mean public policy studied not just as opinion but based on empirical, documentable evidence. Today it's come to mean something darker--the subversion of science in the hands of ideologues committed to manipulating public policy to their end. This new, and disheartening use of the...

If a narco-state or violent crackdown emerges in Venezuela, the White House will no longer be able to avert its attention from the mess or to ‘lead from behind.'

Does the chemical used to make non-stick frying pans endanger the lives of the workers who make it? Facing a daily assault of über-opinionated stories on the web, the public has developed low expectations of journalists. But we continue to have high standards for science reporters wrestling with information that can impact our health and safety. Sadly, such lofty expectations aren't always met.

After an extensive review of some 5000 studies, the German toxicologists reaffirmed the scientific consensus that BPA is safe when used even by the most vulnerable populations—young children and pregnant women.

President Obama's proposal to reinstate taxes for the Superfund, the federal program that finances the cleanup of toxic sites but has almost nothing to do with the oil spill, emphasizes that the more the Obama administration attends to not letting a crisis go to waste, the worse the crisis gets.

As Republican politicians and pundits look forward to spending at least two years in the opposition, they must decide on its character.

An overwhelming majority of Americans have rejectedHillary Clinton's grand vision of a government-run health care bureaucracy.

What we need to know is how bad the EPA claims the air is, and whether that claim is credible.