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The U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Intellectual Property will debate a bill this week that would dramatically limit the public’s right to challenge bad granted patents. The PREVAIL Act, S. 2220 would bar most people from petitioning the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to revoke patents that...

DEAR EDITOR: Why does the news media talk day after day about shootings at churches or schools or parks? The person who takes a life — their mind is gone. Th

The world's most common type of litter, cigarette filters leach thousands of toxic chemicals and microplastics into the environment.

“Nine months ago, your brothers and sisters thwarted an unconstitutional and fundamentally un-American attack on our nation’s values and our votes. Because of you, democracy survived,” President Biden said.

America’s hot-take economy has created a kind of smart that is indistinguishable from stupid. These days we’re soaking in it.

© Getty Images Democrats just got a serious jolt of good electoral news. Fresh off a big win with the American Rescue Plan, which enjoys nearly 70 percent support nationally, Gallup released its political affiliation polling for the first quarter of 2021 and the results were mighty good for left-leaners like us.  The data show that 49 percent of American adults identify with the Democratic Party or are independents who lean towards the Democratic Party. That’s a 9-point advantage over the 4...

April 9, 2021, 7:04 p.m. ET Credit...Illustration by Nicholas Konrad/The New York Times; photographs by Getty Images President Biden campaigned on a promise to unify America. An inspiring goal, to be sure, but one that ain’t anywhere close to happening. Decades of polarization, turbocharged by the us-versus-them philosophy of former President Donald Trump, have left the nation so divided that it can feel as though the two political teams are not only talking past each other but speaking in en...