The internet has a crush on some of the candidates running for office this election season and it’s saying a lot about how Democrats and Republicans wield sexuality.

Saudi Arabia's dreams of becoming a global financial hub are running into the reality of regional war.

Data centers have maybe the worst image in America right now. Enter the public relations professionals.

Cornell University’s president is wary of an outright ban, but the school’s sexual assault case has campuses around the country considering the question.

Support for the death penalty has dropped dramatically in the US, but in some places there's still a "death penalty assembly line" as this episode of The Gray Area explores.

Our emotional relationships with our pets have only grown since the pandemic — and so has the financial price we pay.

Most of the focus in this year’s midterms is naturally on Congress. But the battle to control state legislatures matters just as much, if not more.

Football is by far the most popular sport in the US, but that isn’t stopping the NFL from investing in one of the least popular sports in the US.

The case of a California couple who had more than 20 kids via surrogacy before being charged with child abuse illustrates how a lack of regulation can lead to chaos.

Violent attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank — largely perpetrated by young militant Jewish settlers — have drawn international condemnation, but to little effect.

A surge of hate against Indian immigrants and Indian Americans has broken out of the far-right influencer sphere and into mainstream Republican politics.

Hakeem Jeffries will almost certainly be the next Democratic speaker of the House. What will he and his party do with all that power?

How algorithms and instant fashion killed style — and how to get it back.

Can a Republican candidate run for governor in a red state without bringing up Donald Trump a single time? We went to Ohio to find out. 

Drugs like kratom and 7-OH are widely available at corner stores and smoke shops. They've remained largely unregulated until now.

A recent law-school graduate in Texas is facing disciplinary action over her “overexuberant” response to Charlie Kirk’s murder.

You might not use diesel to fill up your car, but it fuels the US economy, and President Trump’s solution to lower diesel prices might just make things worse.

The worries in China over AI are not the same as the worries in the US, but both countries agree they want to win the AI race for themselves.

It’s not just about being nice. Manners allow us to peacefully coexist at work, in transit, and out in the wider world.

Polling says less than 1 percent of voters consider AI a top concern this election cycle. Michigan congressional candidate Will Lawrence sees things differently.

From live auction sites like Whatnot to games like Monopoly Go!, mobile apps are now designed to addict kids as well as adults.

A majority of Americans have a negative view of Israel. Trump wants to send a massive shipment of bombs to the country anyway.

It’s called the “burnerverse": an online community of anonymous college sports fans who mostly trash talk other teams, except when things turn very, very dark.

Some top AI thinkers warn that the technology could kill us all. But it could also save us.