Oliver Lazarus

An academic paper released this week definitively finds that Exxon acknowledged man-made climate change internally, but worked to misinform people publicly. 

Of the 100 statues donated by states in the U.S. Capitol building, there are 12 Confederate statues, and no African-Americans. 

A historian argues that there are four periods in which Confederate statues were erected, each with their own intent and purpose. 

It's expensive to protect the president on his frequent trips to Trump properties. Already, 1,000 Secret Service agents have hit the federal caps for yearly salary and overtime. 

Forty years after their launch, the intrepid Voyager probes are the subject of a new documentary from PBS. 

In an increasingly democratic Myanmar, growing numbers of Rohingya Muslims are still being forced to flee their country.

One of President Trump’s main talking points on the campaign trail was the issue of trade, and specifically NAFTA. Beginning today, President Trump has a chance to act on that.

Two of the most prolific blues artists of the day — Taj Mahal and Keb' Mo' — say this music is meant to uplift in a political and cultural climate that often weighs people down.

Christine Wormuth, the Pentagon’s former top policy official as the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy between 2014-2016, discusses the latest escalation with North Korea.  

As the opioid crisis reaches a critical level, workers are having a hard time passing drug tests, and this trend is having a broader effect on businesses. 

There are two American economies. And for the one percent — and especially the .001 percent — this is great news.

Frank Thompson oversaw Oregon's only two executions in the last 54 years. Now, he speaks out as an advocate against the death penalty.

The situation in Venezuela continues to unravel.

A vote on whether to unionize the Canton, Mississippi Nissan plant has implications for workers' rights in the 21st century. 

The U.S. government has prosecuted 807 people for terrorism since the 9/11 attacks. Most of them never even got close to committing an act of violence.

Two body cam videos have emerged in the last two weeks allegedly showing officers planting drugs at the scene of an arrest.  

Last week was the first time the Trump Administration announced specific rules to crackdown on sanctuary cities, and applied them to an entire grant program.  

Thousands of pages of documents dating back to the 1920s indicate a history of fraudulent science and regulatory collusion between pesticide companies and the government.  

Searching for reasons to stay in Afghanistan, the Trump Administration is turning to the country's estimated $1 trillion mineral reserves. 

There are 39,400 known or suspected toxic sites on current or former Pentagon properties encompassing over 40 million acres in total — an area larger than the state of Florida.