Preparing for the Collapse of the Saudi Kingdom
It can’t last. The U.S. better get ready.
It can’t last. The U.S. better get ready.
What do patrons at South Carolina’s favorite Mexican-themed tourist trap think about border security and undocumented workers?
Why people who have been thin their entire lives don’t do the one thing most associated with weight consciousness
The most recent addition to the roster of early voting states is establishing its own electoral identity.
Earning a GED can have financial benefits for parents who didn’t graduate—and make it more likely that their children will get a diploma.
The examples put forward by FBI Director James Comey and his defenders are underwhelming.
Our earliest ancestors subsisted on plants, seeds, and nuts. What spurred them to start eating meat?
Once upon a time, Hillary Clinton was in a race against a passionate ideologue named Bernie Sanders. Her victory depended not on changing, but on being herself—someone who gets things done.
It’s an opportunity for the field to lead.
The strike reportedly targeted a militant who masterminded two major attacks in Tunisia last year.
The economics—and morality—of admitting immigrants
New documents reignite old claims that Poland’s former president and the founder of its anti-Communist Solidarity movement was a paid Communist informant.
The controversy surrounding the arrest of a student leader over his alleged remarks come down to this question: Do free-speech rights extend to unpopular views?
A Cold War-era law and the recent thawing of Cuban-American relations has led to a rise in immigration.
Turkey has blamed a U.S.-allied Syrian Kurdish group for a deadly explosion in the capital.
Ugandans voted Thursday in a process that is already being called fraudulent.
With the candidates flinging insults as Saturday’s South Carolina primary approaches, can anybody hope to win?
Frequent pruning has hobbled terrorists’ ability to get their message out.
The banks are too big to fail. They're also too broken to perform their basic job well.
What started as a quest to map the sophisticated acoustics of ancient churches could end up preserving and replicating forgotten noises from across the planet.
The iconic American author of To Kill a Mockingbird died a few months shy of her 90th birthday.
A behind-the-scenes look at the NASA telescope that will search for signs of life on distant planets
The nation's industrial expansion in the 1970s and 80’s gave rise to new linguistic developments.
How does a small town that loses its main industry recover and move forward?
Analyzing the Sanders, Cruz, and Clinton campaigns
Heather Dewey-Hagborg’s newest project raises questions about who has access to our personal data.
Justice Scalia’s death throws cases pending before the Supreme Court on abortion and contraception into doubt.
The Democratic presidential contender has used his journeys abroad to shape America’s global image, and hasn’t been afraid to criticize U.S. foreign policy.
The Republican lashed out on Wednesday, after Governor Nikki Haley’s endorsement went to Marco Rubio.
An interview with the Black Lives Matter activist, who insists he’s not a politician, and says the city must work for everyone.
The paternalistic approach to government has run its course.
As the Senate weighs a legislative push, new survey results from swing states shows that support for a sentencing overhaul depends on how you pitch it.
Robert Eggers’ debut film, a smash hit at Sundance, conjures its scares from eerie atmospherics and immersive details.
The movie, which charts Jesse Owen’s path to the 1936 Berlin Olympics, fumbles trying to tell multiple stories at once.
His seventh album is largely about married life. It is anything but blissful.
The new series from Judd Apatow about a troubled couple in L.A. takes a long time to pay off—but it’s worth it.
The show’s new season asks what its heroines, Abbi and Ilana, are to each other: friends? Partners? More?
ABC seems to think so, ousting its president after he shepherded an explosion of inclusive programming.
Spectacular, immersive exhibitions are drawing huge crowds, but are they changing the museum experience?
At Katsucon, anime, fantasy and real-life identities help everyone fit right in.
The winning entries of the 59th annual World Press Photo Contest have just been announced.
How scientists are reimagining the environment that gave rise to life
Researchers expect eyesight to worsen across the globe thanks to more screens and less time outdoors.
The history of ufology shows the complex psychology of fringe beliefs.
Two geologists have developed a system for classifying some of the most elusive substances on the planet.
An account called Pondlife offers a visually stunning account of the microscopic organisms that live in bodies of water.
What happens when a company wants to be cute and all-powerful at the same time?
The FBI wants to force tech workers to write code that they believe to be unethical and harmful to their country.
A team of programmers has built a self-generating cosmos, and even they don’t know what’s hiding in its vast reaches.
Even without the Clean Power Plan, dozens of White House environmental regulations are still shifting energy use.
A cyberattack in Los Angeles has left doctors locked out of patient records for more than a week. Unless the medical facility pays a ransom, it’s unclear that they'll get that information back.
What it’s like to adapt to texting and online dating after a life without electricity
The government asked the company to hack into a terrorist’s iPhone. Tim Cook’s promise to fight back could solidify his role as a privacy leader—or make him look soft on terrorism.
The notion that there is a "normal" height or a "normal" salary is a relatively new one, and it's had a profound effect on how people think.
According to new data, the stereotypical national obsession with the drink is much less steeped in reality than it used to be.
And the fact that it’s collapsing in Wall Street’s estimation only reveals the utter perversion of the digital economy.
Bay Area cities are loosening restrictions on so-called accessory dwelling units, which homeowners can build in their basements, attics, or out on their lawns.
In 2013, I found that, over the course of a year, about 25 percent of the people I quoted or mentioned were women. Two years later, a similar analysis yielded discouraging results.
Homeownership is down and leasing is up, the result of the realities of today’s economy.
Why are more and more companies offering access to chaplains as an employee benefit?
The recent discovery of ancient remains with signs of the disease shows how mysterious its origins are.
Researchers have begun to understand what the two conditions have in common.
New guidelines make mental health a higher priority in primary care.
Doctors, pharmaceutical companies, and the government have a lot of power over children's lives. That can make parents act irrationally.
In many places, inmates who want to go into hospice care have to sign a do-not-resuscitate order first.
Most people know how to help someone with a cut or a scrape. But what about a panic attack?
Flint is the latest outbreak in the country’s longest-running child-health epidemic.
A number of states want to raise their salaries, but it’s unclear whether that will do much for schools’ staffing problems.
A surprisingly tiny minority of U.S. college students actually get their four-year degrees in four years.
New research shows more districts opting for diverse schools, as others face resistance.
The latest survey of U.S. college freshmen shows that those who receive Pell grants are concerned about how to finance their education—but affluent students are worried, too.
“Schools need to instill in students a thirst to pursue their interests, even at the expense of creating the ‘well-rounded’ student.”
How teachers and parents can identify and cultivate children who think creatively and unconventionally
Adults often have trouble understanding young children’s needs and inner lives—but paying closer attention to the way they experience the world can be valuable.
Most people in the U.S. believe their country is going to hell. But they’re wrong. What a three-year journey by single-engine plane reveals about reinvention and renewal.
The New York Times film writer has a take on everything but says nothing.
“The law doesn’t anticipate these kinds of Sophie’s Choice-type questions that people have to make once they’re creating babies in petri dishes.”
The revival of a visionary band from the 70s and 80s
An in-depth look at the war against ISIS in Iraq and Syria