Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Before space became a setting for human exploration and profit, it was a setting of the imagination. The relationship between science and science fiction has never been clearer than when it comes to ...

McLEAN, Va. - Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address has inspired Americans for generations, but consider his jarring remarks in 1862 to a White House audience of free blacks, urging them to leave the U ...

The re-classification of a children's book on Native American history in a Texas library has caused an uproar among consumers, activists and library organizations nationwide. Last month, a citizen ...

A Texas county's decision to reclassify a historical account of Indigenous colonization as fiction has sparked outrage among anti-censorship advocates, book publisher Penguin Random House and the ...

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From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A decision by a New Orleans-based appeals court has slapped down a Texas law that would require booksellers to rate their products for sexual content if they want to do business with schools. Credit: ...

A Texas court ordered that a children’s history book about the Wampanoag tribe, written by Aquinnah author Linda Coombs, be returned to the nonfiction second of an East Texas library system a week ...

The Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation’s discovery of the remains of 215 children in a mass grave at a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C., should not be regarded as a closed chapter in ...

A Texas county’s decision to shelve a nonfiction children’s book about colonization in the fiction section is facing backlash. Montgomery County Commission decided to reclassify Linda Coombs’ book ...