Physicists have designed a set of quantum control protocols that can make a monitored quantum process look as though time is flowing backward, forward at a different speed, or in no clear direction at ...

Federal trial judges are starting to invoke President Donald Trump’s vision of a unitary executive against him in cases ...

Neither the US nor the UK, where the tax systems are among the oldest in the world—are similar in some ways, but in others they differ significantly. The tax systems of the US and the UK have much in ...

The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribe’s approach to water management is helping to integrate sovereignty and conservation into water policy in Montana.

The NHI was signed into law in May 2024, a plan for a large state-run fund that buys health services from both the public and private healthcare sectors. But at least 12 court cases now challenge its ...

Numerous school districts across the United States still operate under desegregation orders originally implemented in the decades following the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education, ...

When a federal judge closed Suffolk’s decades-old desegregation case, it did more than clear a line on a court docket. It marked the end of a chapter that began in 1970, when the U.S. Department of ...

The state budget’s chronic gaps between income and outgo — $125 billion over the last few years, according to the Legislature’s fiscal advisor — have left Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislators scrambling ...

An Amazon facility in Sacramento on Sept. 25, 2023. Democrats and interest groups want California to collect more taxes from multinational companies like Amazon. Photo by Rahul Lal for CalMatters ...

More than 50 years ago, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University made a breakthrough discovery of a new kind of phase transition — a discovery that still shapes cutting-edge fields like quantum ...