For better and for worse, she was the world’s first female starchitect.

• Kriston Capps
• Apr 1, 2016

How many racist text threads among cops will it take for officials to recognize systemic problems?

• Conor Friedersdorf
• Apr 1, 2016

Over the last 60 years, on-screen superheroes have reflected America’s changing ideals for men’s physiques.

• Maria Teresa Hart
• Apr 1, 2016

A new study suggests that low expectations from some teachers might engender low performance from students.

• Emily DeRuy
• Apr 1, 2016

Viewers could do with more realistic portrayals of long-term love.

• Ted Trautman
• Apr 2, 2016

A new paper sifts through past research on marine debris to assess the true extent of the environmental threat.

• Elizabeth Preston
• Apr 1, 2016

The rock band’s 10th full-length recaptures their early sound while sharpening their underratedly powerful message.

• Spencer Kornhaber
• Apr 1, 2016

Terms like “low-functioning” are short on nuance and long on stigma.

• Nicholette Zeliadt
• Apr 1, 2016

Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s security detail assaulted reporters and protesters outside a venue in Washington, D.C., at which the Turkish president was speaking.

• Krishnadev Calamur
• Mar 31, 2016

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.

• Nshira Turkson
• Mar 31, 2016

A very close look at the U.S. military’s award for service in Syria and Iraq

• Uri Friedman
• Mar 31, 2016

The current peace talks won’t end the war, but they may mark a new phase.

• Dominic Tierney
• Mar 30, 2016

The government announced it would begin talks with left-wing ELN rebels. Officials are already negotiating on a deal with FARC.

• J. Weston Phippen
• Mar 30, 2016

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.

• Krishnadev Calamur
• Mar 30, 2016

President Francois Hollande dropped the proposed constitutional changes after it became clear that it would not clear Parliament.

• Krishnadev Calamur
• Mar 30, 2016

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.

• Peter Beinart
• Apr 1, 2016

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.

• Li Zhou
• Apr 2, 2016

Can Sanders stun Hillary Clinton in the state they’ve both claimed as home?

• Russell Berman
• Apr 1, 2016

The North Carolina executive defends blocking restroom protections for trans people as a matter of politesse. A manners expert weighs in.

• Steven Petrow
• Apr 1, 2016

As the Republican candidate attempts to solidify his hold on his supporters, it becomes harder for him to gain any ground with other voters.

• Ronald Brownstein
• Mar 31, 2016

The case for cautious optimism about the future, despite the disappointing choices in this year’s presidential election.

• Conor Friedersdorf
• Mar 31, 2016

Nothing outstanding here, but things seem to be moving in the right direction.

• Bourree Lam
• Apr 1, 2016

These aren’t just enormous piles of trash, but human workplaces too.

• Bourree Lam
• Mar 31, 2016

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.

• J. Weston Phippen
• Mar 31, 2016

It’s stunning, but given the state of America’s 401(k)s, it’s not terribly surprising.

• Joe Pinsker
• Mar 31, 2016

Donald Trump succumbs to the age-old temptation to see capitalism not as an economic system but a morality play.

• John Paul Rollert
• Mar 30, 2016

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.

• Gillian B. White
• Mar 30, 2016

Everybody else is moving to the suburbs.

• Derek Thompson
• Mar 30, 2016

The highlights from seven days of reading about entertainment

• The Editors
• Apr 2, 2016

Richard Linklater’s new film is a winsome look at a weekend in the life of a college baseball team.

• David Sims
• Apr 1, 2016

Christian Louboutin has added an important new style to his inclusive “Nudes” collection: flats.

• Megan Garber
• Mar 31, 2016

A brief controversy over the play’s pursuit of diversity reminds just how potent that diversity is.

• Spencer Kornhaber
• Mar 31, 2016

You want him on that fourth wall. You need him on that fourth wall.

• Megan Garber
• Mar 31, 2016

Miles Ahead captures the spirit and genius of the trumpeter Miles Davis in part by setting aside his legendary glamor.

• David A. Graham
• Mar 31, 2016

Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's much-hyped debut pokes fun at a privileged New York clan’s money troubles.

• Amy Weiss-Meyer
• Mar 31, 2016

The classic trick is almost as old as the phone itself, but it may have to make room for new technologies.

• Julie Beck
• Apr 1, 2016

Getting cash or discounts for your personal data could give you more control over it—but may help turn privacy into a premium feature.

• Kaveh Waddell
• Apr 1, 2016

For centuries, the wall covering has helped people construct new realities inside their homes. An Object Lesson.

• Jude Stewart
• Apr 1, 2016

Silicon Valley’s sunny outlook on technology and opportunity ignores systematic inequalities.

• Adrienne LaFrance
• Mar 31, 2016

The candidate outlined his half-baked “cyber thought process” in an interview with The New York Times.

• Kaveh Waddell
• Mar 30, 2016

Hey Cortana. Hey Siri. Hey girl.

• Adrienne LaFrance
• Mar 30, 2016

What an Amazon prank can teach us about delight in the Internet age

• Ian Bogost
• Mar 30, 2016

The city carefully planned its economic revitalization. Why, then, is it so painful for some of the people who have lived here the longest?

• Gillian B. White
• Mar 31, 2016

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.

• David A. Graham
• Mar 30, 2016

The U.S. Department of Justice and the city in New Jersey reached an agreement Wednesday to overhaul how the city’s police works.

• J. Weston Phippen
• Mar 30, 2016

Desegregating schools by shuttling kids across town failed. That doesn’t mean the significance of the original goal must fail.

• Matthew Delmont
• Mar 29, 2016

Anthony Foxx wants communities to think more carefully about where they build roads.

• Alana Semuels
• Mar 29, 2016

The Obamas mark their final Easter egg roll, an event that dates back to 1878.

• Marina Koren
• Mar 28, 2016

Physically expanding roads doesn't cure congestion. So why are places like Arkansas spending millions to do just that?

• Alana Semuels
• Mar 28, 2016

In urban waste-material adventure playgrounds, children can build, climb, graffiti, and create.

• Katherine Martinelli
• Apr 1, 2016

New evidence suggests that black and Latino students thrive in honors class.

• Jill Barshay
• Mar 31, 2016

Kids learn from podcasts, so why aren’t adults making more for them?

• Stephanie Hayes
• Mar 31, 2016

Non-religious families often find it difficult to educate their children without relying on conservative Christian curricula and communities.

• Jaweed Kaleem
• Mar 30, 2016

Colleges and universities have become a marketplace that treats student applicants like consumers. Why?

• Alia Wong
• Mar 30, 2016

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.

• Mikhail Zinshteyn
• Mar 30, 2016

“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.”

• Alia Wong
• Mar 29, 2016

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?

• Olga Khazan
• Mar 31, 2016

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.

• Emily Baumgaertner
• Mar 30, 2016

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?

• Julie Beck
• Mar 30, 2016

A new program aims to help the most long-suffering patients by addressing the neurobiology of the eating disorder.

• Carrie Arnold
• Mar 30, 2016

Living on the street, even something as simple as finding a place to store medicine can be an insurmountable challenge.

• Maralyssa Bann
• Mar 29, 2016

A mother’s thoughts on the complicated politics of "comfort feeding,” or breastfeeding on demand

• Megan Margulies
• Mar 29, 2016

Easing newborn babies out of methadone dependence can be a difficult task.

• Kristin Espeland Gourlay
• Mar 28, 2016

Two years after a controversial paper claimed to reconstruct the Spinosaurus, the carnivorous beast remains one of the most enigmatic puzzles of paleontology.

• Asher Elbein
• Mar 31, 2016

A new way for the field to address its replication crisis.

• Ed Yong
• Mar 31, 2016

Thousands of bears, panthers, leopards, lions, and elephants were killed in the Colosseum—but how did they get there in the first place?

• Caroline Wazer
• Mar 30, 2016

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.

• Barbara J. King
• Mar 29, 2016

A study suggests people find expansive, space-consuming postures more romantically attractive.

• Olga Khazan
• Mar 29, 2016

Neuroscientists are studying elephants, parrots, and sea lions to better understand the origins of rhythm.

• Ferris Jabr
• Mar 28, 2016

A new generation of probes will look for signs of life in the liquid plumes that shoot out from Jupiter and Saturn’s moons.

• Rebecca Boyle
• Mar 25, 2016