Most children are taught dinosaurs went extinct due to an asteroid that collided with Earth. Now, some scientists disagree.
Should America experience a pandemic, the president’s tendencies toward nationalism may fuel the fire.
Jeff VanderMeer discusses how writing fiction about environmental crises may jolt readers out of complacency.
The art world is fragmenting. Will we be able to date the art of the future?
In 1932, Hellen Keller offered some advice for the “perplexed businessman.”
Russia’s cyber warfare success revealed America’s weakness.
David Sedaris offers some pertinent advice to aspiring writers.
Watch a passage from Kurt Vonnegut’s short story about a businessman’s bizarre idea to use bees as carrier pigeons.
To understand the changes taking place in the Republican Party now, it helps to go back to the last time the party went through a major transformation.
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel says bipartisan ACA reform is the way forward.
One scientist’s solution to drug-resistant bacteria
A handy acronym for popularity
Research shows how immigration and cultural values shape this distinctive habit.
The award-winning director on confronting his father’s legacy and leaving his children to confront his own.
Women developed computer science. Today, the industry is mostly men.
While many dream of an afterlife, people with apeirophobia are terrified of eternal existence.
In a short animation, James Fallows considers what’s in store for this new era of American politics.
A writer reflects on the burden of fatherhood in a nation that elected Donald Trump.
The CEO of the company behind Pokémon Go describes the future of what smartphones will be able to do.
The decline of a once-powerful majority is going to have profound implications.