A better way to think of it, as the philosopher Ronald Dworkin put it, is as a “gravitational pull” on judicial reasoning.

American Religious Belief in Extraterrestrial Life (Princeton Univ., Sept.) argues that several American religious traditions have long believed in that aliens exist—and want to help us.

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WASHINGTON —The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration can turn away migrants who show up at the ...

President Donald Trump‘s immigration agenda has notched several key wins as the Supreme Court‘s term draws to a close, but a key loss appears imminent on one of the high court’s final opinion days.

There's never a convenient time for an alien invasion, but in Steven Spielberg's new "Disclosure Day," the timing couldn't be worse. In the director's latest science fiction epic, global tensions are ...

When I look at the night sky, I don’t wonder whether alien life is somewhere out there; I think it probably is. Considering the sheer number of stars in the cosmos, and the possibly larger number of ...

In a pair of immigration rulings Thursday, the court held that the law permits the government to turn away asylum-seekers on ...

Olivia Wilde revealed on the “Armchair Expert” podcast (via Entertainment Weekly) that she was nearly stampeded to death by horses on the set of “Cowboys & Aliens,” director Jon Favreau’s 2011 Western ...

Their names may not be familiar, but they helped define queer art, activism and storytelling as we know it today.

This stranger’s-eye-view of an eccentric nation promises insight but delivers only conventional wisdom ‘Continental people have sex lives; the English have hot-water bottles.” So observed Hungarian ...

Crude oil is a product of natural processes down there. It’s a renewable energy source, in fact.