What do patrons at South Carolina’s favorite Mexican-themed tourist trap think about border security and undocumented workers?

• David A. Graham
• 9:23 AM ET

Why people who have been thin their entire lives don’t do the one thing most associated with weight consciousness

• Olga Khazan
• 8:00 AM ET

The most recent addition to the roster of early voting states is establishing its own electoral identity.

• Nora Kelly
• 8:00 AM ET

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.

• Leah Askarinam
• 11:36 AM ET

The examples put forward by FBI Director James Comey and his defenders are underwhelming.

• Conor Friedersdorf
• 10:24 AM ET

Our earliest ancestors subsisted on plants, seeds, and nuts. What spurred them to start eating meat?

• Marta Zaraska
• 8:00 AM ET

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.

• Eric Liu
• 6:00 AM ET

It’s an opportunity for the field to lead.

• Paul Bloom
• 9:00 AM ET

The strike reportedly targeted a militant who masterminded two major attacks in Tunisia last year.

• Krishnadev Calamur
• 8:57 AM ET

The economics—and morality—of admitting immigrants

• Heather Horn
• Feb 18, 2016

New documents reignite old claims that Poland’s former president and the founder of its anti-Communist Solidarity movement was a paid Communist informant.

• Adam Chandler
• Feb 18, 2016

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?

• Krishnadev Calamur
• Feb 18, 2016

A Cold War-era law and the recent thawing of Cuban-American relations has led to a rise in immigration.

• J. Weston Phippen
• Feb 18, 2016

Turkey has blamed a U.S.-allied Syrian Kurdish group for a deadly explosion in the capital.

• Marina Koren
• Feb 18, 2016

Ugandans voted Thursday in a process that is already being called fraudulent.

• Nshira Turkson
• Feb 18, 2016

Justice Scalia’s death throws cases pending before the Supreme Court on abortion and contraception into doubt.

• Julie Rovner
• 6:09 AM ET

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.

• Clare Foran
• 6:17 AM ET

The Republican lashed out on Wednesday, after Governor Nikki Haley’s endorsement went to Marco Rubio.

• David A. Graham
• Feb 18, 2016

An interview with the Black Lives Matter activist, who insists he’s not a politician, and says the city must work for everyone.

• Clare Foran
• Feb 18, 2016

The paternalistic approach to government has run its course.

• Ron Fournier
• Feb 18, 2016

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.

• Russell Berman
• Feb 18, 2016

Robert Eggers’ debut film, a smash hit at Sundance, conjures its scares from eerie atmospherics and immersive details.

• David Sims
• 11:24 AM ET

The movie, which charts Jesse Owen’s path to the 1936 Berlin Olympics, fumbles trying to tell multiple stories at once.

• David Sims
• 9:57 AM ET

His seventh album is largely about married life. It is anything but blissful.

• Spencer Kornhaber
• Feb 18, 2016

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.

• David Sims
• Feb 18, 2016

The show’s new season asks what its heroines, Abbi and Ilana, are to each other: friends? Partners? More?

• Megan Garber
• Feb 17, 2016

ABC seems to think so, ousting its president after he shepherded an explosion of inclusive programming.

• David Sims
• Feb 17, 2016

Spectacular, immersive exhibitions are drawing huge crowds, but are they changing the museum experience?

• Katharine Schwab
• Feb 17, 2016

How scientists are reimagining the environment that gave rise to life

• Emily Singer
• 8:30 AM ET

Researchers expect eyesight to worsen across the globe thanks to more screens and less time outdoors.

• Julie Beck
• 9:00 AM ET

And other news from the Earth system

• Robinson Meyer
• 8:30 AM ET

And how they can be marshaled to fight it

• Ed Yong
• Feb 18, 2016

The history of ufology shows the complex psychology of fringe beliefs.

• Julie Beck
• Feb 18, 2016

Two geologists have developed a system for classifying some of the most elusive substances on the planet.

• Alex Berezow
• Feb 17, 2016

An account called Pondlife offers a visually stunning account of the microscopic organisms that live in bodies of water.

• Doug Bierend
• Feb 17, 2016

What happens when a company wants to be cute and all-powerful at the same time?

• Adrienne LaFrance
• Feb 18, 2016

The FBI wants to force tech workers to write code that they believe to be unethical and harmful to their country.

• Conor Friedersdorf
• Feb 18, 2016

A team of programmers has built a self-generating cosmos, and even they don’t know what’s hiding in its vast reaches.

• Roc Morin
• Feb 18, 2016

Even without the Clean Power Plan, dozens of White House environmental regulations are still shifting energy use.

• Robinson Meyer
• Feb 18, 2016

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.

• Kaveh Waddell
• Feb 17, 2016

What it’s like to adapt to texting and online dating after a life without electricity

• Olga Khazan
• Feb 17, 2016

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.

• Kaveh Waddell
• Feb 17, 2016

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.

• Todd Rose
• Feb 18, 2016

According to new data, the stereotypical national obsession with the drink is much less steeped in reality than it used to be.

• Adam Chandler
• Feb 18, 2016

And the fact that it’s collapsing in Wall Street’s estimation only reveals the utter perversion of the digital economy.

• Douglas Rushkoff
• Feb 18, 2016

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.

• Alana Semuels
• Feb 18, 2016

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.

• Adrienne LaFrance
• Feb 17, 2016

Homeownership is down and leasing is up, the result of the realities of today’s economy.

• Richard Florida
• Feb 17, 2016

Why are more and more companies offering access to chaplains as an employee benefit?

• Emma Green
• Feb 17, 2016

The recent discovery of ancient remains with signs of the disease shows how mysterious its origins are.  

• Cari Romm
• Feb 18, 2016

Researchers have begun to understand what the two conditions have in common.

• Carrie Arnold
• Feb 18, 2016

New guidelines make mental health a higher priority in primary care.

• Farah Khan
• Feb 16, 2016

Doctors, pharmaceutical companies, and the government have a lot of power over children's lives. That can make parents act irrationally.

• Emma Green
• Feb 16, 2016

In many places, inmates who want to go into hospice care have to sign a do-not-resuscitate order first.

• Ann Neumann
• Feb 16, 2016

Most people know how to help someone with a cut or a scrape. But what about a panic attack?

• Meagan Morris
• Feb 12, 2016

Flint is the latest outbreak in the country’s longest-running child-health epidemic.

• Laura Bliss
• Feb 12, 2016

A number of states want to raise their salaries, but it’s unclear whether that will do much for schools’ staffing problems.

• Alia Wong
• Feb 18, 2016

A surprisingly tiny minority of U.S. college students actually get their four-year degrees in four years.

• Jon Marcus
• Feb 17, 2016

New research shows more districts opting for diverse schools, as others face resistance.

• Melinda D. Anderson
• Feb 16, 2016

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.

• Mikhail Zinshteyn
• Feb 16, 2016

“Schools need to instill in students a thirst to pursue their interests, even at the expense of creating the ‘well-rounded’ student.”

• Jonathan R. Cole
• Feb 14, 2016

How teachers and parents can identify and cultivate children who think creatively and unconventionally

• Jessica Lahey
• Feb 12, 2016

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.

• Lauren Cassani Davis
• Feb 11, 2016