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Some Justice Department veterans said they worry about the possibility of political interference in law enforcement decisions if Trump wins the White House.

Pete Ullrich was a young spine surgeon in Neenah, Wis., who wasn’t satisfied with the available tools. So he came up with a new one: a titanium spacer to…

Although the Fight for 15 movement is nearly a decade old, there isn’t a single state with a minimum wage that high. And while the majority of states do have a minimum higher than the federal standard, Wisconsin is not among them. A new fact sheet released by COWS found that raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour would mean a pay raise for at least 30% of Wisconsinites.

Documentarian Ken Burns attracted millions of fan with his landmark public television series on the Civil War. But many more millions of people are…

In cinema history, there have been 37 video game adaptations. But yet, the only one has grasped at success -- Tomb Raider starring Angelina Jolie in 2001…

In the United States, we talk a lot about the First Amendment and freedom of the press, and it’s part of our system of governance. And for decades, we’ve…

The work of police departments around the country has been under particular scrutiny in the last year. Some high profile shootings by police — and of…

It used to be that medicine was carried out with a certain degree of secrecy. We turned our health over to the experts and they prescribed what was right…

Lidia Bastianich has offered a lot of advice to chefs and would-be chefs over the years. She’s hosted a half-dozen series of cooking shows on public…

Many high school English classes stress reading the classics of the Western Literary Canon: things like Romeo and Juliet, Wuthering Heights, or The…