How America Is Putting Itself Back Together
Most people in the U.S. believe their country is going to hell. But they’re wrong. What a three-year journey by single-engine plane reveals about reinvention and renewal.
Most people in the U.S. believe their country is going to hell. But they’re wrong. What a three-year journey by single-engine plane reveals about reinvention and renewal.
Sanders’s youth movement is powered by the energy of the new campus left. What does it believe?
Fairygodboss's anonymous reports point to a recipe for job satisfaction.
Some schools are tossing out the lunches of those who don’t pay. Others provide free meals to all.
Can Donald Trump actually win? Did Marco Rubio stall out at the debate? And who will drop out next? What to watch in the New Hampshire primaries.
How does a small town that loses its main industry recover and move forward?
Candidates played true to form as voters head to the polls for the first-in-the-nation primary.
In United States v. Texas, the Supreme Court has put forth a question on the definition of the take-care clause, which in the past been difficult to decipher.
After getting shut down late last year, a website that allows free access to paywalled academic papers has sprung back up in a shadowy corner of the Internet.
Facebook suffers a blow from regulators in India, proving that the fight for an open web is more than an abstraction.
The Swedish prosecutor’s office says it is working on a renewed request to interview the Wikileaks founder at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.
“Space travel is how a technical, globally organized civilization makes art together.”
In peddling unhealthy meals, health centers fail both their patients and their employees.
The parties' delegate system was rigged to favor establishment candidates—but this year, it might sink their chances.
The revival of a visionary band from the 70s and 80s
“There's just generations of white girls who can see themselves as ballerinas. It’s not even a question.”
“The beating of the drums, it pulls everybody together.”
A short profile of the Granite State, where voters play an outsized role in choosing presidents.
Black poverty is fundamentally distinct from white poverty—and so cannot be addressed without grappling with racism.
Humbled by his struggling campaign, can the New Jersey governor vault back into contention after Saturday’s debate?
Will the Democratic Party nominate a candidate who hasn’t been a member of their party, and who has long denounced it?
The former president’s heated assault on Bernie Sanders is a reminder of how the Clintons have long reacted to any opposition.
Medieval rulers demonstrate why the pervasive inclination to examine whether or not female biology indicates passivity or aggression misses the mark.
An informal checklist of traits that distinguish successful U.S. cities
In Homs, Syria, where entire city blocks have been reduced to rubble by years of civil war, a Syrian wedding photographer thought of using the destruction of the city as a backdrop for pictures of newlywed couples “to show that life is stronger than death.”
Many are familiar with the challenges faced by working moms, but the troubles of women with aging parents are unseen and widely ignored.
Were black workers paid less because employers discriminated or because of a systemic skills gap?
The trust people tend to feel toward others in the same ethnic, racial, and political groups makes them easy targets for scammers.
As the discipline began to emerge, a group of passionately religious academics wanted it to become a tool for limiting child labor and fighting poverty.
Not everybody’s wages are stagnant. Those who are switching jobs are seeing their earnings go up.
In Chicago, a few undocumented immigrants find shelter and work as they wait, sometimes years, for a court date.
The FCC will vote February 18 on a plan that would open the cable-box market to companies like Apple, Tivo, Roku, and Google.
At least nine people are dead and dozens hurt in the crash in Bavaria.
Interventions that claim to help noncombatants must account for how they are actually being harmed.
This year alone, 374 asylum-seekers have died or are missing.
Regulators have banned certain web services because they violate net neutrality.
The reclusive country launched a long-range missile into space Saturday night, defying international warnings.
The head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency says at least some militants have entered the country along with the asylum-seekers.
Pope Francis will meet the head of the Russian Orthodox Church next week. It’s being seen as an attempt to heal the 1,000-year-old rift in Christianity.
Tracking them down is a globe-trotting adventure that rivals any jungle expedition.
The insects are miniature transformers that can compress to half their size and still run really fast. The creepy little buggers might even inspire a new generation of search and rescue robots.
Is oxygen in an exoplanet's atmosphere a sign of living beings, or something more mundane?
A philosopher explains how feelings influence right and wrong.
The brain’s model of the body can tell us a lot about its model of attention.
Fifty years after it was served, researchers have cracked the case of one very strange menu item.
As Coldplay blandly strained for the universal, she and Bruno Mars pulled off something more specific and more daring.
The show will be remembered be as one of the last great network-TV dramas—and it’ll get to go out on its own terms.
Because it’s an old tired man perplexed by modernity, and it’s having trouble pooping.
The Denver Broncos beat the Carolina Panthers, but neither Peyton Manning nor Cam Newton seemed able to prove their worth.
“The immigrant superhero from the planet Krypton may be more relevant now than he has been in years.”
The highlights from seven days of reading about entertainment
Authorities and advocates in Reno are finding it harder to identify victims and perpetrators of sex trafficking.
A new study shows how much racial discrepancies in classroom discipline contribute to the achievement gap.
One professor is borrowing a method from Harvard Business School to engage students and inspire better decision-making skills.
One school’s push for a happy approach to learning has created impressive academic growth.
Districts are turning to private companies, nonprofits, and foundations to tackle the biggest impediments to learning.
The revised date could help teenagers better prepare for the exam—but it could also worsen socioeconomic inequalities.
Many college leaders criticize the administration’s lack of two-way communication on key policy initiatives.
Public-education systems in working-class Long Beach unite to open up opportunities from pre-k to higher ed.
A Chicago cop who shot the 19-year-old seeks $10 million in damages in a countersuit filed against the man’s family.
Michigan’s governor says he only found out in January, but newly revealed emails show his aides were aware of the fatal outbreak nine months ago.
Ibtihaj Muhammad, a fencer, will make history when she competes at the Rio games.
The Grand Canyon state wants a divorce from the largest of the federal appellate jurisdictions—but is that the right solution to its problems?
A high-profile Black Lives Matter activist is taking his fight to the polls, joining the race to become the next leader of Baltimore.
Conservationists have released video of the only known jaguar living in the country.
The 149 people freed last year had, on average, spent 14½ years in prison, a new report says.
A photo series reveals what expectant mothers in various countries bring with them to the hospital.
Overly persistent pursuit is a staple of love stories, but a new study shows that it could normalize some troubling behaviors.
No amount of head protection can fully protect players from concussions.
A Congressional hearing with Martin Shkreli reveals the brokenness of the prescription-drug market.
Let’s talk about the CDC’s bonkers new alcohol guidelines for women.
A series of experiments in mice has led to what some are calling “one of the more important aging discoveries ever."
Why it’s unique in the landscape of mosquito-borne viruses in the Americas
New data shows a mysterious surge in the number of people killed in motor-vehicle accidents.
Our missing messages finally arrived. Only they’re not really telegrams.
A new app wants to be the Tinder of platonic female relationships.
Funeral cards are reminders of loved ones who have passed away. An Object Lesson.
He sent emails he thought were infected with viruses to Department of Energy employees involved in developing nuclear weapons.
Law enforcement officials say they’re running out of ways to spy on criminals and terrorists. Maybe they’re not looking in the right places.
The new Daily Show host, Trevor Noah, is smooth and charming, but he hasn’t found his edge.
U.S. presidential candidates are steering the country toward a terror trap.
“To mock History’s Greatest Monster is to claim a kind of victory over him.”
Authoritarian leaders like the Gambia's Yahya Jammeh seem to relish the West's wealth. Why doesn’t the United States use that against them?