Coal Mining Health Study Is Halted by Interior Department

By LISA FRIEDMAN and BRAD PLUMER August 21, 2017 WASHINGTON — The Interior Department has ordered a halt to a scientific study begun under President Obama of the public health risks of mountaintop-removal coal mining. The National Academies...

A Total Solar Eclipse Leaves a Nation in Awe

A Total Solar Eclipse Leaves a Nation in Awe By HENRY FOUNTAIN August 21, 2017 Viewers cheered and howled as they took in the total eclipse in downtown Jackson, Wyo. By HENRY FOUNTAIN August 21, 2017 CHARLESTON, S.C. — The United States...

You would be amazed at how much implicit bias there is against women at work

Workplace biases are back in the national conversation, thanks to the recent memo by a Google employee. The memo’s author challenges the company’s diversity policies, arguing that psychological differences between men and women explain why fewer women work...