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The 1964 Supreme Court Case Jacobellis v. Ohio presented a highly subjective question to the justices: what is obscenity or pornography? How...

We have become accustomed to politicians shouting at each other, and confrontational TV talk show hosts who do anything but listen to their...

Childhood today is radically different than it was just a few generations ago. Before the coronavirus pandemic, kids’ busy schedules include...

In 2019, women hit a milestone in gender parity when they became the majority of the college-educated workforce. While it may be easy to see...

Exercise is a relatively recent phenomenon. After all, it’s difficult to imagine a caveman on a treadmill. And it’s safe to say that paleoli...

In the decades since Roe v. Wade, public sentiment about abortion has remained fairly steady. By contrast, in the mid-1990s, only around a q...

The U.S. economy has come a long way since the darkest days of the pandemic, but the future remains uncertain for many, especially those hit...

About 1500 years ago, the world was a very different place; Pope Gregory was spreading Catholicism far and wide, a plague was running rampan...

Walter Isaacson has made a habit of profiling world-changers: innovators who, through their discoveries, upend the way we live. Recently, he...

Educators around the country were plunged into a massive experiment with virtual learning last year, when more than 50 million K-12 students...

All over the country, school districts are grappling with how to safely reopen classrooms in the midst of a resurgent pandemic. While many h...

It has been said that cleanliness is next to godliness, but the constant disinfecting and scrubbing of our homes, offices and public spaces...

Imagine a crime scene, and what it might take to solve the case. Do you think about dusting for fingerprints? DNA collection? According to K...

Business won’t save the world, but — according to Harvard economist Rebecca Henderson — it can help fix it. Henderson, author of Reimagining...

In Japanese, the word “karoshi” translates to “death by overwork.” As reports of workplace burnout have skyrocketed since the pandemic, it’s...

A migration crisis is already underway, and it's caused, at least in large part, by climate change, according to modeling by ProPublica and...

July 2021 is a big month for Amazon’s Founder and former CEO, Jeff Bezos. Not only did he step down as CEO of the company he built into a $1...

The Constitution, first drafted in 1787, stands as the supreme law of the land in the U.S. But Mary Anne Franks — a law professor at the Uni...

School is out for the summer, but many students, educators and parents are still reeling from an earthquake in K-12 education. It will take...

Constantly checking your email might feel like textbook responsible work behavior but, according to Cal Newport — a professor of computer sc...

On the 2020 U.S. census, Americans faced five options: White, Black or African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, and Native...

Exercise is a relatively recent phenomenon. After all, it’s difficult to imagine a caveman on a treadmill. And it’s safe to say that paleoli...

Have you ever wanted to be rich? Really rich? Gregory Zuckerman, a special writer at The Wall Street Journal and author of “The Man Who Solv...

It seems like every time a dictionary publishes a new update, people flock to social media to talk about it. Whether they’re responding to t...

It might be difficult to remember now, but there was a time when the news wasn’t 24/7. There were morning and evening editions of the paper;...

It might be hard to believe, but there was a time when time wasn’t as exact as it is now. When people would come over on “Tuesday” rather th...

Many cities fell out of favor during the coronavirus pandemic, as those with means abandoned them for safer pastures – often to the annoyanc...

With the pandemic creating a wave of employees who have decided to work from home part-time, it might be reasonable to assume that traffic w...

When figuring out how to tackle a problem, our instincts are almost always to add: we make to-do, not to-don’t lists after all. But just bec...

In 2019, women were doing exceptionally well in the workplace — hitting record-setting workforce participation numbers, holding more non-far...

Over the last several decades, manufacturing jobs in the U.S. have withered. Meanwhile, health care has become the fastest growing job secto...

From Mathew Brady’s Civil War photographs, to some of the first images of Earth in space, photography has shaped the way we see ourselves. W...

Money is “a social agreement,” according to Frederick Kaufman, a journalism professor at the City University of New York. You and the cashie...

Do you have memories from adolescence you’d rather forget? Previously, that choice — whether to open up that embarrassing high school yearbo...

When you have a really good idea, copycats may try to steal it for themselves — and that’s what investigators assumed was happening when an...

How much democracy is too much? Societies have been toying with different democratic models — from how often to hold elections, to who gets...

Last year, many American cities were shut down for long periods during the coronavirus pandemic. They were also the backdrop for widespread...

There was a moment in early 2020 when life narrowed and the grocery store became a lifeline — in more ways than one. It was the source of br...

Our brains are incredibly nimble pieces of machinery, and are actively being rewired and rewritten in response to experience. According to D...

Policymakers have a thumb on the scale when it comes to how long we live. Jennifer Karas Montez, a sociologist and demographer at Syracuse U...

Business won’t save the world, but — according to Harvard economist Rebecca Henderson — it can help fix it. Henderson, author of Reimagining...

Walter Isaacson has made a habit of profiling world-changers: innovators who, through their discoveries, upend the way we live. Recently, he...

Constantly checking your email might feel like textbook responsible work behavior but, according to Cal Newport — a professor of computer sc...

It has been said that cleanliness is next to godliness, but the constant disinfecting and scrubbing of our homes, offices and public spaces...

Imagine a crime scene, and what it might take to solve the case. Do you think about dusting for fingerprints? DNA collection? According to K...

The Constitution, first drafted in 1787, stands as the supreme law of the land in the U.S. But Mary Anne Franks — a law professor at the Uni...

During this pandemic, we may be acutely aware that our love lives and family lives are entwined with the technology that’s all around us. Bu...

More than 10 million American children lived below the poverty line before the COVID-19 crisis and now, with months of school closures, risi...

It’s been nearly a year since increased isolation has become the norm: since workplaces and schools shut down, hospitals and nursing homes s...

It may feel as though we are living in unusual times, with all the strange precautions we have been forced to adopt to try and contain COVID...