The MacArthur Foundation has awarded more than $6 million to eight organizations that address reporting challenges in the U.S.-Mexico borderland. The grants are intended to help publications deal with ...

Douglas MacArthur’s firing by President Harry S. Truman in 1951 is the only genuine case of wartime insubordination by an American military commander. General MacArthur had a history of disregarding ...

Harvard Math professor Lauren K. Williams ’00 was named a recipient of the 2025 MacArthur Fellowship, the foundation announced on Wednesday. The MacArthur “Genius Grant,” which comes with an ...

Palm Beach County has terminated a contract with the MacArthur Foundation, refusing grant money intended to reduce the local jail population. The grant-funded programs had successfully reduced the ...

A political scientist who studies what helps people connect across differences. A novelist whose books about Native American communities in Oakland, California, sparked a passionate following. A ...

The Victoria East Titans (0-5, 0-1) will host the MacArthur Brahmas (0-5, 0-2) Thursday evening at Memorial Stadium. Both teams are in desperate need of a win to keep pace within the eight-team field ...

Oakland writer Tommy Orange is one of 22 people selected this year to receive a MacArthur Fellowship — an $800,000 no-strings-attached cash prize paid out over the course of five years. Known ...

Two University of Wisconsin-Madison professors are among a select group of newly annointed geniuses. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation named atmospheric scientist Ángel Adames ...

A mathematician in Cambridge, a cultural anthropologist in Providence, a cartographer in Rockland, Maine, and a basketmaker in Eddington, Maine, are among 22 national winners of “genius” grants ...

In 2024, the researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was one of the first scientists in the country to realize something new was happening: "I was going through [reports] ...

A Harvard mathematician and two Massachusetts graduates were chosen as 2025 MacArthur Fellows and honored with a “genius” grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, according to a ...

Hahrie Han, a political scientist at Johns Hopkins University and inaugural director of the university's SNF Agora Institute, has been named one of 22 recipients of a 2025 MacArthur Fellowship, among ...