31 August 2018
As the battle for power in the US Congress heats up it offers the best chance yet to address the lack of politicians with science backgrounds, says Shaughnessy Naughton
9 July 2018
Scott Pruitt resigned from the US Environmental Protection Agency, and his successor is likely to continue gutting regulations that limit air and water pollution
8 June 2018
The road to the Singapore summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un has been marked by nuclear bluffs. Let's hope the talks are for real, says Christopher Boehm
5 June 2018
Theories of conflict and cooperation say the US risks self-harm if it sparks a big trade war. So what is Trump's real aim, wonders Petros Sekeris
23 October 2017
Probing the views and personalities of 2000 people has found that narcissists don't much care about traditional values, but they are more racially prejudiced
16 October 2017
In refusing to recertify the Iran nuclear deal, US president Donald Trump risks creating another North Korea – as another Republican president did before him
23 August 2017
Trump's research priorities invoke a golden era of American power, but nostalgia for the 1950s is no way to run a modern science program
8 August 2017
A leaked report says evidence that humans are responsible for climate change is strong – but it remains to be seen how the Trump White House will react
22 June 2017
If you don't measure the bad stuff, you don't have to do anything about it. That looks like the Trump philosophy, say Gretchen Goldman and Andrew Rosenberg
20 June 2017
The data, collected on behalf of the Republicans, included phone numbers and addresses as well as assumptions about religion and ethnicity
