Undermining expertise is a pretext for consolidating power among the ultra-wealthy.

What a 1950s experiment reveals about conformity in the age of the internet.

Learn more about a potent voice who is standing tall for us in the moment

New research suggests AI chatbots can shift people’s political views more effectively than campaign ads on TV.

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An emerging field of history asks if we can ever really understand how our forebears experienced love, anger, fear, and sorrow.

A new book argues that civilizations built on centralized wealth and power contain the seeds of their own destruction.

If you’re a parent or a teacher, you’ve probably wondered how to balance play and safety for the kids in your care. You don’t want to put children in danger, but you also don’t want to rob them of the joy of exploration. This week, we talk with psychologist Peter Gray about how this balance has changed — for parents and children alike — and what we can do about it.

Digital tools are pulling us away from fixed texts and back toward fluid, interactive communication.

A new Wharton study finds that too few women are working with emerging tech, and that exclusion is driving a growing divide in pay.

When a word comes to mean everything, it means nothing.

David Lilienthal’s account of his years running the Tennessee Valley Authority can read like the Abundance of 1944. We still have a lot to learn from what the book says — and from what it leaves out.

Headlines keep pulling our attention toward high-profile clashes between politicians and elite research universities. But quietly, out of the spotlight, a far more immediate crisis is taking shape on campuses that may look "fine" from the outside: dozens of small and midsize private colleges with familiar names are far closer to the financial edge than their public statements suggest.

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The Thanksgivings of yore featured overcooked turkeys and Jell-O salad. Surely we’ve evolved.

Lawmakers say Rubio distanced US from peace plan. Members of Congress attending an international security forum said Secretary of State Marco Rubio called them to say the Americans did not instigate the proposal. Related

The democratic party is falling behind while Trump accelerates technology innovation. Related: The surprising issue driving a wedge between Trump and his MAGA base

“The custom of the sea” ended with a landmark conviction in Britain.

Fundamental reform, not quick fixes, will save America’s education system. Excerpt: " Though no one has suggested it, the government’s fiscal problems could be solved by an 8 percent income tax surcharge. Nobody has suggested it because it is an absurd idea, but we have already imposed a comparable tax on K-12 students: The declines in student achievement over the past dozen years work out to similar lifetime income reductions!"

Trump’s trade war is a pain, but less so than many executives expected