The White House turned a legal term into a science-fiction spectacle. The real story is not the theatrics. It is how language moves an audience from watching to acting.

“Mr. Chair, the truth is out there.” That’s what Rep. Nate Davidson, D-Cumberland and Dauphin said during a Tuesday Pa. House ...

The White House launched a website teasing new information on extraterrestrials this week, but it actually delivers immigrant arrest data.

Science fiction stories about “alien” invaders are often political allegories for anxieties around immigration. Now, a government website depicts non-citizens as extraterrestrials.