"Reporter's privilege" is the claim that a journalist has a legal right to refuse to identify a confidential source or to hand over unpublished newsgathering material, even when a court or grand jury demands it.

In the 1870s, the British survey ship HMS Challenger dragged its dredges across the deep Pacific during a four-year voyage that founded the science of oceanography.

For most of the internet's commercial history, the places where digital business happens have narrowed to a handful of controlling points.

Walk into a courtroom in Texas, Ohio, or West Virginia and the person in the black robe very likely won that seat the same way a mayor or a member of Congress does, by running for office, raising money, and collecting…

The founding document of children's online protection in the English-speaking world is the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, known as COPPA.

For most of the twentieth century, the death of a democracy had a recognizable face: tanks in the streets, a general on the radio announcing that the constitution was suspended, the elected leader in exile or worse.

To understand why a 2026 White House report could call itself "the first comprehensive rethinking of the U.S. science and technology enterprise in over 80 years" (White House), you have to understand what that…

War is many things at once. It is politics, it is tragedy, and it is also, unavoidably, a business.

Nationwide protests pushed Ukraine's president into his second street-forced course correction in a year, raising how a wartime country holds its leaders to account when the ballot box is closed.

A Florida judge ruled that Trump must hand over financial records for nearly 400 companies in his defamation case against the BBC, a textbook example of how suing over your reputation puts your own record on the table.