Who’s to Blame for the Deadly Overpass Collapse in Kolkota?
Police in India detained five officials Friday who work with the company building the structure that collapsed and killed more than 20 people.
Police in India detained five officials Friday who work with the company building the structure that collapsed and killed more than 20 people.
For better and for worse, she was the world’s first female starchitect.
How many racist text threads among cops will it take for officials to recognize systemic problems?
Over the last 60 years, on-screen superheroes have reflected America’s changing ideals for men’s physiques.
A new study suggests that low expectations from some teachers might engender low performance from students.
Viewers could do with more realistic portrayals of long-term love.
A new paper sifts through past research on marine debris to assess the true extent of the environmental threat.
The rock band’s 10th full-length recaptures their early sound while sharpening their underratedly powerful message.
Terms like “low-functioning” are short on nuance and long on stigma.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s security detail assaulted reporters and protesters outside a venue in Washington, D.C., at which the Turkish president was speaking.
The country’s highest court ruled that Jacob Zuma violated the constitution when he used $15 million in state funds to upgrade his private estate.
A very close look at the U.S. military’s award for service in Syria and Iraq
The current peace talks won’t end the war, but they may mark a new phase.
The government announced it would begin talks with left-wing ELN rebels. Officials are already negotiating on a deal with FARC.
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled in favor of Britain’s decision not to charge police officers who shot and killed a Brazilian man in 2005 after mistaking him for a terrorism suspect.
President Francois Hollande dropped the proposed constitutional changes after it became clear that it would not clear Parliament.
The longtime losers are now the preseason favorites—a sign of how the smartest teams have become the best ones.
Terrorism is an old phenomenon. To figure out how to end it, it’s worth sorting through what's changed, which precedents can inform future responses, and what past failures can teach for the way forward.
America’s once-robust safety net is no more.
A disease called primary progressive aphasia gradually robs people of their language skills while leaving their minds intact.
Researchers know that it’s expensive to be poor. But they are only beginning to understand the sum of the financial, psychological, and cultural disadvantages that come with poverty.
The comedian suffered from hyperparathyroidism, a rare and under-publicized condition that can sometimes be fatal.
A short documentary chronicles the end of a beloved institution in Portland, Maine.
It could lead to a public health disaster, says The Atlantic's healthcare policy writer Vann R. Newkirk II.
How big and how dangerous is the Islamic State? We break it down by the numbers.
A short documentary explores the challenges of being a woman in the ring.
Or, how establishment candidates wasted over $100 million on 2016 advertising
A short film on a prolific, but pretty terrible, 19th-century writer
Inside Bernice Steinbaum's lifelong effort to get the work of women and minorities into art galleries
A Clinton win this fall will stoke Trump voters’ rancor. That’s why she should include them in speeches and launch a big infrastructure plan.
Millennial women resent being told to vote for Clinton because she’s a woman. That’s why they should look at her career fighting for women.
Can Sanders stun Hillary Clinton in the state they’ve both claimed as home?
The North Carolina executive defends blocking restroom protections for trans people as a matter of politesse. A manners expert weighs in.
As the Republican candidate attempts to solidify his hold on his supporters, it becomes harder for him to gain any ground with other voters.
The case for cautious optimism about the future, despite the disappointing choices in this year’s presidential election.
Nothing outstanding here, but things seem to be moving in the right direction.
These aren’t just enormous piles of trash, but human workplaces too.
Five top players on the U.S. women’s soccer team filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission demanding the same pay as their male counterparts.
It’s stunning, but given the state of America’s 401(k)s, it’s not terribly surprising.
Donald Trump succumbs to the age-old temptation to see capitalism not as an economic system but a morality play.
A new study finds that students who attended more racially integrated high schools are more likely to wind up working with people from different backgrounds.
Everybody else is moving to the suburbs.
What African Americans lost by aligning with the Democratic Party
Photographs of the Messiah Miracle Worship Center, a Southern storefront church the size of a two-door garage.
The highlights from seven days of reading about entertainment
Richard Linklater’s new film is a winsome look at a weekend in the life of a college baseball team.
Christian Louboutin has added an important new style to his inclusive “Nudes” collection: flats.
A brief controversy over the play’s pursuit of diversity reminds just how potent that diversity is.
You want him on that fourth wall. You need him on that fourth wall.
Miles Ahead captures the spirit and genius of the trumpeter Miles Davis in part by setting aside his legendary glamor.
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's much-hyped debut pokes fun at a privileged New York clan’s money troubles.
The classic trick is almost as old as the phone itself, but it may have to make room for new technologies.
Getting cash or discounts for your personal data could give you more control over it—but may help turn privacy into a premium feature.
For centuries, the wall covering has helped people construct new realities inside their homes. An Object Lesson.
Silicon Valley’s sunny outlook on technology and opportunity ignores systematic inequalities.
The candidate outlined his half-baked “cyber thought process” in an interview with The New York Times.
The city carefully planned its economic revitalization. Why, then, is it so painful for some of the people who have lived here the longest?
A prosecutor in Minneapolis said police were justified in shooting the 24-year-old black man because he was trying to grab an officer’s gun.
The U.S. Department of Justice and the city in New Jersey reached an agreement Wednesday to overhaul how the city’s police works.
Desegregating schools by shuttling kids across town failed. That doesn’t mean the significance of the original goal must fail.
Anthony Foxx wants communities to think more carefully about where they build roads.
The Obamas mark their final Easter egg roll, an event that dates back to 1878.
Physically expanding roads doesn't cure congestion. So why are places like Arkansas spending millions to do just that?
In urban waste-material adventure playgrounds, children can build, climb, graffiti, and create.
New evidence suggests that black and Latino students thrive in honors class.
Kids learn from podcasts, so why aren’t adults making more for them?
Non-religious families often find it difficult to educate their children without relying on conservative Christian curricula and communities.
Colleges and universities have become a marketplace that treats student applicants like consumers. Why?
Are some college admissions rigged for non-residents? One large public university system is accused of hurting local students by attracting more out-of-state ones.
“Far too many students are learning to do whatever it takes to get ahead—even if that means sacrificing individuality, health, happiness, ethical principles, and behavior.”
After viewing news photographs from China for years, one of my favorite visual themes is “large crowds in formation.”
Raw sewage flows into many of Rio’s Olympic venues every day. As the prospect of a full clean-up before the Games dims, the world is left wondering, who will get sick, and how?
Some West Africans who have beat the deadly disease are now going blind—and doctors, unsure if treatment would unleash the virus back into the population, are powerless to help them.
Being jostled in a car accident should only cause a few weeks of pain—so why do some people suffer longer? Are they faking it for insurance money? Is it all in their heads?
A new program aims to help the most long-suffering patients by addressing the neurobiology of the eating disorder.
Living on the street, even something as simple as finding a place to store medicine can be an insurmountable challenge.
A mother’s thoughts on the complicated politics of "comfort feeding,” or breastfeeding on demand
Easing newborn babies out of methadone dependence can be a difficult task.
Two years after a controversial paper claimed to reconstruct the Spinosaurus, the carnivorous beast remains one of the most enigmatic puzzles of paleontology.
A new way for the field to address its replication crisis.
Thousands of bears, panthers, leopards, lions, and elephants were killed in the Colosseum—but how did they get there in the first place?
Some animals have been observed performing the same rituals over and over, leading scientists to speculate that they might have a sense of the sacred.
A study suggests people find expansive, space-consuming postures more romantically attractive.
Neuroscientists are studying elephants, parrots, and sea lions to better understand the origins of rhythm.
A new generation of probes will look for signs of life in the liquid plumes that shoot out from Jupiter and Saturn’s moons.
“My mom is a typical New Orleans Jewish woman. The first thing she said to me was, ‘So, are you not going to eat my shrimp anymore?’”