American democracy is straining under countless pressures, many of them rooted in structural problems that go back to the nation's founding. Chief among them is the "pick one" plurality voting ...

LARGO, Md. — As counties across the DMV are finding more ways to aid their residents, Prince George's County just opened a resource that will address housing issues that many are facing. The Housing ...

More than two dozen pandemic-era programs stand to lose out on funding under a budget proposal put forward this week by New Orleans Mayor-elect Helena Moreno, catching some organizations that planned ...

Education savings accounts, tax-credit scholarships, vouchers, charter schools, home schooling, tutoring, course choice, dual degrees, and microschools are transforming K–12. In “Talking Choice,” ...

In tweaking its chatbot to appeal to more people, OpenAI made it riskier for some of them. Now the company has made its chatbot safer. Will that undermine its quest for growth? Credit...Julia Dufosse ...

The Juneau Assembly has shelved plans for a local ranked-choice voting system, saying the timing is wrong as the city prepares for significant budget strain. Assembly member Ella Adkison moved to ...

PayPal has introduced a Venmo cash back rewards program that the company is calling Venmo Stash. The program is designed to scale rewards with user engagement, offering more cash back to those who use ...

Venmo on Monday introduced a new rewards program, Venmo Stash, offering cash back to customers who transact with their favorite brands on the payments app and engage with Venmo’s products. While ...

U ndergraduate writing programs introduce college students to the rhetorical and argumentative structures they will be expected to master during their four years on campus and beyond. Learning the ...

Every year, Californians throw 2.5 billion meals worth of edible food into landfills, despite the fact that one in five state residents experience food insecurity, according to CalRecycle. But a new ...