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Conceptions of individual rights that have guided modern civilization are rooted in an idea with biblical origins.

Women make workforce gains, but their pay growth isn’t keeping pace with men’s Quick Summary By last year, women working full time made 81 cents on the dollar compared with men, the widest pay gap since 2016. Economists suggest that return-to-office mandates contribute to women opting for lower-paying, flexible jobs or leaving the workforce. Labor-force participation for women with a Bachelor’s degree and a child up to five years old has declined 2.3 percentage points since early 2023.

The Erie Canal, dug by human muscle, aided by improvised cleverness, helped build a nation.

EVs are poised to age like smartphones.

AI slop is winning.

A new film argues that, in an era of rising authoritarianism, audiences have become too numb to the speculative force of 1984

More than 800 U.S. TikTok users shared their data with The Washington Post. We used it to find out why some people become power users, spending hours per day scrolling.

For many of us, navigating the end of a relationship is one of the hardest things we will ever do. This week, we conclude our Love 2.0 series with psychologist Antonio Pascual-Leone, who shares the most common mistakes we make when it comes to splitting up, and techniques that can help us ease the pain. Then, our latest edition of Your Questions Answered. Cognitive scientist Phil Fernbach returns to respond to listeners’ thoughts and questions about the “illusion of knowledge.”

America’s bestselling biographer reveals the origins of the most revolutionary sentence in the Declaration of Independence, the one that defines who we are as Americans—and explains how it should shape our politics today.

Consumers are finally pushing back on AI-driven data expansion. Will it matter?

An interview with the A House of Dynamite screenwriter Noah Oppenheim and Tom Nichols

It’s time to write the human genome, argues microbiologist Andrew Hessel.