Republicans have long accused Democrats of being the party of big federal government, but blue states are finding themselves in new...

There is a fascinating irony about the way that humans go about constructing streets: Boulevard after boulevard is paved not for people,...

While the Department of Defense (DoD) may not commonly be seen as a leader in environmental sustainability efforts, the US military has...

The history of Indigenous peoples in the United States is replete with genocide, erasure, and forced assimilation. Oppression of...

Fifty years ago, when Carlos Monteiro began his career as a pediatrician in the sprawling slums of São Paulo, his patients were starving....

On September 26, the United Nations General Assembly addressed, for the first time, the global health epidemic of tuberculosis (TB). In a...

Universal health care can transform a country. In Japan, the kokumin kaihoken insurance system has led to the world’s highest life...

In Pflaumheim, a small German village about a marathon’s distance from Frankfurt, revealing that one “has a Polin,” or “Polish woman,”...

Poised on the cutting edge of innovation, American universities continuously challenge the frontiers of knowledge in the pursuit of...

An industry promoting its own scientific studies, denying existing and factual data, lobbying departments within the government, and...

For the overwhelming majority of banned books, it takes only the vaguest understanding of their premises to guess why they were banned....

As American politics becomes increasingly polarized, the two-party system has become an obstacle to healthy government. Extremism often...

For much of the early 20th century, only a handful of film studios dominated the movie industry. The “Big Five”—Paramount, Warner Bros.,...

In July 2018, Ethiopia and Eritrea signed a monumental peace treaty to reopen diplomatic relations, travel, and trade between the two...

When American founding father Elbridge Gerry said, “the evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy,” he probably didn’t have...

After the Japanese annexation of the Korean peninsula in 1910, many Koreans migrated to Japan—some voluntarily, others by force. During...

On a midnight raid in a rural region of Brittany, France, furious farmers blockaded roads with bales of hay. Other farmers dumped 3.5...

Though now one of the most arid regions in the world, the Middle East was once home to a lush environment. Sadly, the scattering of...

The opioid crisis is one of the worst public health emergencies ever to plague the United States. In 2017, 72,000 people died from drug...

In October 2018, Banksy’s Girl with Balloon painting shredded itself after it was sold to a collector at an auction for $1.4 million...