What About Nagasaki?
President Obama only visited Hiroshima, one of two cities on which the U.S. dropped atomic bombs in 1945.
President Obama only visited Hiroshima, one of two cities on which the U.S. dropped atomic bombs in 1945.
President Obama only visited Hiroshima, one of two cities on which the U.S. dropped atomic bombs in 1945.
The 2016 campaign has revealed an America of stark division and mutual animosity.
Demographic patterns behind support for the radical right are similar in Europe and the United States.
It’s not what she wrote—it’s her tendency to wall herself off from alternative points of view.
Next week an auction house in France will sell hundreds of Native American items, some of which are considered sacred.
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Some U.S. cities are looking into hiring private contractors and moving away from the TSA after a month of historically long lines.
The president is the first sitting American leader to make a trip to the city that was bombed by the U.S. with a nuclear device.
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A Greek archaeologist says he has located the classical philosopher’s final resting place.
It’s hard to say sorry. Especially when you’re doing it for a whole country.
Demonstrators campaigning against the government’s proposed labor reforms clashed Thursday with police in cities across the country.
Speaking in Japan, Obama also explained the tense race between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders by saying: “They are in the course of a primary.”
“It’s not fair that a brother has certain rights and a sister does not. It’s 2016.”
U.S. dynamism is in the dumps: Americans are less likely to switch jobs, move to another state, or create new companies than they were 30 years ago (or 100 years ago). What’s going on?
He lives near San Francisco, makes more than $50,000 per year, and is voting for the billionaire to fight against political correctness.
In certain corners of the country, white Americans are not only embracing the concept, but deciding that it might be key to resolving racial inequalities.
Friday’s deal would put more than 35,000 people back to work.
The Presidential Election Campaign Fund used to give political unknowns a fighting shot. Now $300 million sits in the fund—and no one wants anything to do with it. Can campaign spending be fixed?
The court ruled 4-3 Friday the punishment was cruel and unusual under the state’s constitution.
A short film on how the tricky business of buying and dealing artwork has evolved
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A short film sheds light on how, when you're undocumented, even the smallest interactions with law enforcement are risky.
If you want to help your bacteria, build them a nice place to live.
A short film goes inside a popular form of astrology in the state of Tamil Nadu.
A short film explains how the unregulated market fuels astronomical prices.
Senator Mike Lee fears enrolling women in the Selective Service is a dangerous precedent that may lead to mandatory service for things like national security and the public good.
Who has jumped on the bandwagon? Who’s sticking with #NeverTrump? And who hasn’t made up their mind yet? A continually updated inventory
The Democratic insurgent’s campaign is losing steam—but his supporters are not ready to give up.
A gay-rights amendment takes down a House appropriations bill, and with it might go the speaker’s grand plan to revive the congressional spending process.
Abandoning the low-tax, small-government orthodoxy of the GOP, its nominee says he envisions the Republican Party of the future as a “workers’ party.”
Clinton has built dominant leads in delegates and the popular vote, but the tenacious Vermont senator is blocking her effort to consolidate support.
Hillary Clinton can call on just about any elected official in the Democratic Party, including a past and current president. Donald Trump, not so much.
The popular gene-editing technique can deliver a step-by-step account of how a single-cell embryo becomes a trillion-cell animal.
New research suggests Mars is emerging from an ice age that once covered it in frost.
A rock structure, built deep underground, is one of the earliest hominin constructions ever found.
A researcher examines how politicians change their pitch and volume to attract voters
“If a man produced sperm that big, it would stretch diagonally across a basketball court.”
On the Colorado River, one of America’s largest reservoirs may be doing more harm than good.
Scientists are using a network called the World Community Grid to process huge amounts of data in an attempt to understand how to tackle the virus.
Right now, only about 10 percent of Americans study in a foreign country during school.
The non-awaited sequel to Tim Burton’s 2010 fantasy spectacle seems almost aware of its own pointlessness.
What happens when political collapse meets personal scandal?
The latest entry in the long-running comic-book franchise shows how much it’s been outstripped by its superhero-movie rivals.
The Canadian musician, who has collaborated with Bob Dylan, Brian Eno, and U2, on his approach to performing and making records
Speculation about how Ramsay Bolton might die reveals the challenges of devising a cathartic TV death—and illuminates a larger issue facing the series.
The film, released 25 years ago, is best known as an icon of early-’90s feminism. But it feels just as fresh today as it did in 1991.
Star Wars is an eternal tale of paternal love and redemption—for both George Lucas and Anakin Skywalker.
After a shooting at a hip-hop concert, the NYPD commissioner delivered a statement that seems straight out of the rough-and-tumble ‘90s.
Nicholas and Erika Christakis stepped down from their positions in residential life months after student activists called for their dismissal over a Halloween kerfuffle.
The university has demoted Ken Starr, its president, and fired Art Briles, the football coach, over how complaints were handled.
More than a decade after alleging she was assaulted, Andrea Constand is still being asked what took her so long.
Federal prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Dylann Roof, who killed nine people at a historically black church last year.
The police chief was placed on leave after he shot his friend while hunting and tried to cover it up.
A judge ruled Tuesday that the entertainer’s trial on charges of sexual assault can go forward.
Estonia’s triplet Olympic Marathoners, protests in France, US special operations forces in Syria, the National Spelling Bee in Maryland, a thousand Indian Runner ducks in a South African vineyard, and much more.
Finding empty pools for skateboarding has never been so easy.
Aluminum revolutionized America’s beverage industry, but at what environmental cost? An Object Lesson.
What the billionaire’s financing of lawsuits against the gossip rag says about Internet culture.
A look at how The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and BuzzFeed compare.
New earbuds from Waverly Tech claim to translate conversations as they are happening—so someone speaking English could seamlessly flirt with a stranger talking in French.
The originally peaceful building blocks have added more and more weapons since they were introduced.
Scientists are using a network called the World Community Grid to process huge amounts of data in an attempt to understand how to tackle the virus.
Many aren’t familiar with the term that encompasses businesses like Uber and AirBnB, while others argue that the phrase may be deceptive.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average turns 120 years old today. While it’s a popular measure of American enterprise, it doesn’t reflect the nature of the U.S. economy.
For the first time in over 130 years, young people are more likely to live with their mom and/or dad than with a partner.
The ancient city of Athens paid its citizens for various civic duties, priming them into a mindset that paved the way to participatory government.
Whatever banking’s post-recession connotations may be, the historian William Goetzmann argues that monetary innovations have always played a critical role in developing civilization.
Start in the weeks after birth, with equal leave for parents of any gender.
Without credit, they're more likely to settle for lower-paying gigs.
A new machine could cut medication costs by allowing hospitals and pharmacies to make their own pills.
From ancient demons to alien abductions, paranormal tales reveal that “sleep paralysis” may be as old as sleep itself.
How the first ever update to the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 finally came to pass—and what it lacks.
The federal government requires states to accommodate children on the spectrum, but it provides no financial assistance for them to do so.
With #ellaneedswheels, a mother took on the insurance company that wouldn’t cover her mysteriously paralyzed child.
First, know that some anxiety is normal.
The state has low unemployment and increasing jobs, but its future workforce may not be equipped to fill them.
Widely seen as the best public-school system in the U.S., the Massachusetts school system’s success can offer lessons to other states.
Many families this year have chosen to boycott state-mandated assessments as an act of civil disobedience, and the consequences are—and continue to be—complicated.
With whites now making up less than half of America’s K-12 students, the country’s success or failure in the 21st century will be decided in the classroom.
With the national college-graduation rate for black students half that of whites, this school is changing the rules of the game—and beating the odds.
Children acquire knowledge by acting and then reflecting on their experiences, but such opportunities are increasingly rare in school.
Narcissism, disagreeableness, grandiosity—a psychologist investigates how Trump’s extraordinary personality might shape his possible presidency.
“Even if nonviolence isn’t always the answer, King reminds us to work for a world where it is.”