In any given place, zoning laws decide what we can build and where. There are estimated to be some 30,000 local governments in the U.S. that employ zoning laws, and they can be complex. “Sometimes 150 ...

Dozens of Chinese research vessels are on a quest to map the sea floor at strategically vital regions of the world's oceans. Some of the surveying is for mineral deposits and fishing grounds, but the ...

When historian Carter Woodson created “Negro History Week” in 1926, which became “Black History Month” in 1976, he sought not to just celebrate prominent Black historical figures but to transform how ...