How does a citizen respond when a democracy that prides itself on being exceptional betrays its highest principles? Plato despaired, but he also pointed the way to renewal.
With the president giving Trump golf courses free publicity, and Kellyanne Conway telling citizens to buy Ivanka Trump products, business is good and ethics are dubious.
Amidst the no-shampoo revolution, a look at global hygiene habits
The Nobel laureate Angus Deaton discusses extreme poverty, opioid addiction, Trump voters, robots, and rent-seeking.
In Arctic Siberia, Russian scientists are trying to stave off catastrophic climate change—by resurrecting an Ice Age biome complete with lab-grown woolly mammoths.
The divide sometimes has devastating consequences.
A new study suggests different groups of Americans see their country in radically divergent ways.
Flynn’s acknowledgment this week that he lobbied for Turkey, and the revelation that the White House knew that, raise new questions about Trump’s vetting process.
Facing increasing hostility from the administration, the religious community also has to cope with its own internal tensions.
The idea that humans are ephemeral compared to the workings of nature isn’t as persuasive as it once was.
A remote part of the Indian Ocean has become, by chance, one of the best-mapped parts of the underwater world.
An interview with Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Plato at the Googleplex
The policy could pose challenges to economic prosperity and potentially lead to greater restriction.
As the WB show turns 20, a look at how it dealt with grief in season five
The preconditions are present in the U.S. today. Here’s the playbook Donald Trump could use to set the country down a path toward illiberalism.
Living a long life seems the obvious goal for most people, and many of them, like Dylan Thomas…
For those who experience “musical anhedonia,” listening to a song is halfway between boring and distracting—and their brain activity reflects that.