Mesmerizing Motels of the Atomic Age
An homage to the distinctive and disappearing architecture of a bygone era
An homage to the distinctive and disappearing architecture of a bygone era
At least 50 people were killed in a suicide bombing in the city of Gaziantep Saturday night.
The discussion over how to parse the filmmaker in light of a sexual-assault trial 17 years ago is particularly difficult for black women.
A Christian theme park in Kentucky brings the ancient to life through a life-sized reconstruction of Noah’s Ark—but not without dipping into fiction.
The successes of foreign-born athletes like Mo Farah and Bernard Lagat offer a rejoinder to nationalistic sentiment in the U.S. and Britain.
Thousands of Central American children made a harrowing journey to the United States. Now they are navigating the arduous process of getting an education.
He lives in Auckland, New Zealand, and calls himself “Mr. Sunshine.”
"I sent my son to serve the country and now he’s in jail."
A battle between an insect and a microbe led to one of the fastest evolutionary changes ever observed.
What happens after Raqqa falls?
The singer’s album is not the one that’s been promised, but there’s plenty to dig into nonetheless.
Images unsealed by a U.S. federal court in Tucson, Arizona, show migrants crammed into holding cells and huddling together for warmth.
If Trump loses, his consolation prize may be a whole new right wing media juggernaut.
Chris Holman gave up on a PhD in world languages to start a farm in Wisconsin.
The things that make Pride and Prejudice’s middle sister so unappealing as a supporting character are precisely what make her compelling as a star.
From Michael Phelps and Katie Ledecky to Simone Biles and Usain Bolt, follow the 2016 games with our handy cheat sheet.
The last of the four swimmers involved in a bizarre tale of robbery at gunpoint has paid $10,800 to resolve the case, for which the U.S. Olympic Committee has apologized.
An American team triumphed at the International Math Olympiad for the second-straight year, despite concerns of student diversity in STEM.
Americans once completely dominated the sport—but that hasn’t been the case since last century.
After the Olympics, both winners and losers are prone to emotional crashes.
Deception at the games is as old as the competition itself.
Americans once completely dominated the sport—but that hasn’t been the case since last century.
Josh Spencer, with his aptly named bookstore, somehow created a resurgence of the printed word.
Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard Law professor, offers creative solutions to change an unrepresentative system.
The author Steven Brill speaks to PBS Newshour about whether America is safer from terrorism than it was on 9/11.
In 75 years of Olympic participation, the country has made running its domain. A creative short film reflects on that.
How food keeps an indigenous Maya community together, despite being far from their homeland.
A woman living in the Canadian Rockies is the only visible transgender person in a remote region.
The veteran Republican operative tried to turn Donald Trump into a more normal candidate. Instead, he has resigned from a flailing campaign, chased by his own scandals.
If the Republican nominee is defeated in a landslide, the party may be powerless to influence Clinton's agenda and administration.
A news report suggests that agents linked to the Russian state may have tried to break into the computer systems of the Republican Party and its presidential nominee.
Donald Trump's supporters haven’t necessarily lost a job to globalization. But they’re afraid they’re next.
Seizing on President Obama’s absence, the Republican nominee surveys flood damage despite a warning from the state’s governor.
In the era of Trump, Clinton and co. want to preserve the status quo, while their Republican opponents want radical change.
The world of GOP intellectuals and policymakers has been upended by Donald Trump. What is there to do but carry on?
Since 9/11, the United States has spent $1 trillion to defend against al-Qaeda and ISIL, dirty bombs and lone wolves, bioterror and cyberterror. Has it worked?
Poor white Americans’ current crisis shouldn’t have caught the rest of the country as off guard as it has.
Twitter announced the suspension of 235,000 accounts for promoting terrorism, bringing the total number of accounts deactivated since 2015 to 360,000.
Internal documents appear to confirm that this week’s leak came from the agency.
Overused phrases—“I hope you’re well,” “Best,” etc.—are more valuable than they seem.
The ride-hailing service plans to launch its first such fleet this month in Pittsburgh.
Hackers can use artificial intelligence to mimic their targets’ tweets—and entice them to click on malicious links.
A new surveillance system off the coast of New York aims to help keep the creatures out of harm’s way.
Machine learning allows computers to see patterns in medical images that are invisible to human doctors.
Deception at the games is as old as the competition itself.
Over the next decade, the city’s demographics will change dramatically, and housing policy will largely determine who gets to stay.
Nice joined the growing list of municipalities banning from their beaches the swimsuit worn by some women.
The highlights from seven days of reading about the world
The interior minister said the facial covering favored by some Muslim women “doesn't fit in with our open society.”
After suggesting the timing of a cash delivery was unrelated to the freeing of hostages, the State Department admits the two were contingent.
The picture of a five-year-old boy awaiting treatment at a hospital in Aleppo is a reminder of the nature of the conflict.
The government’s decision to stop using corporations to manage the federal prison population could have unintended consequences.
Some say apps that make learning fun are key, but what’s lost when all that learning is spent looking at a screen?
Scientists are beginning to understand how Zika replicates and spreads within the womb, but they still don’t know how the virus manages to get there in the first place.
And what it could mean for the search for life on other worlds
The once-endangered species made the fastest recovery ever recorded for a mammal—but first, conservationists had to kill some pigs and relocate some eagles.
CRISPR, the powerful new gene-editing technique, has helped to solve a fishy mystery about how our fingers and toes evolved.
The average temperature across Earth’s land and oceans was 0.84 degrees Celsius (1.51 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the average.
What hunting for cocktail ice in Antarctica taught me about climate change. An Object Lesson.
After decades of expansion at only the high and low ends of the pay scale, the economy appears to be seeing an uptick in medium-skill employment.
It’s not just Aetna: The way Obamacare handles the excessive costs of treatment simply doesn’t work.
Over the next decade, the city’s demographics will change dramatically, and housing policy will largely determine who gets to stay.
Chris Holman gave up on a PhD in world languages to start a farm in Wisconsin.
”People look around and think, ‘Boy, things are expensive.’ They don’t realize that they’re expensive because of decisions that the local government makes.”
Thad and Dianna Fellows came up with a creative way to overcome the homesickness that often is part of life on the road.
As people move to warmer climates and cities, small towns throughout the region are weathering decline.
Most elite athletes are unusual in some way. So why does Caster Semenya alarm spectators more than Michael Phelps?
New research shows Millennial men's well-being improved from staying at home, while women's improved by being the breadwinners.
New research has found evidence the mosquito-borne virus can adversely affect cells necessary for replenishing damaged neurons.
Exposing people to what they fear—even in virtual reality—is an effective way to overcome phobias.
Health officials say 168 people have been sickened by the virus, which they linked to tainted scallops at the Genki Sushi restaurant chain.
Vigilant, long-term monitoring of patients is the future.
The system for preventing cancer is widely misunderstood and misleading.
A sunset over Egypt, a moonrise over Syria, a nude statue of Donald Trump, floods in Louisiana, fires in California, Olympics in Rio, a new airship makes its maiden flight, and much more.
The newest film from the animation studio Laika is visually stunning—even if the story it tells is shaky at times.
Todd Phillips’s comedy-drama, based on a true story of gun-runners in their 20s, should be brutally funny. It’s not even brutal.
The singer’s album is not the one that’s been promised, but there’s plenty to dig into nonetheless.
The up-and-coming filmmaker is under intense scrutiny for rape charges leveled against him 17 years ago. Here’s why this debate is necessary.
The HBO miniseries portrays religious hatred as just one ever-multiplying cause and effect of injustice.
A comedian and writer for Inside Amy Schumer drew his boss into an internet firestorm by criticizing a theater for banning an accused rapist.
Campus sexual-assault guidelines have changed significantly since the '90s.
Hillary Clinton’s proposal to make public higher education more accessible to lower- and middle-income students could have the opposite effect.
The Department of Education is encouraging corporations in high-demand fields to partner with universities.
Schools want black students to feel welcome, but sometimes their attempts go awry.
Teaching self-control is proven to be much more effective than tutoring and advanced classes.
A decision more than four decades old continues to haunt a city where everything governmental is unified—except education.
One city’s attempt to professionalize early education could be a model for the nation.
The school’s former president and chancellor, who was demoted over how he handled sexual-assault allegations, will leave the faculty.
Officials are looking into whether a Muslim group’s religious freedoms were violated when the town rejected its plans to build the graveyard.
Southern Louisiana is drowning again. No one seems to care.
The news-gossip website that was bought this week by Univision announced Thursday it will cease operations next week.
The Justice Department announced it plans to stop using private prison to house inmates.
Residents of the Inupiat Eskimo village, identified as one of the communities most affected by coastal erosion, brought on by climate change, voted to leave their island for the mainland.
“Islamophobia is part of The Night Of’s larger exploration of how negative events multiply each other.”
In the heart of Washington, D.C., one family lives off the energy produced from a single solar panel.
A short animation cleverly explores the etymology of a ubiquitous food.
A look at the country's burgeoning "arrival cities"
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