Could a new populist movement help save American democracy?

A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.

Telling people to “be encouraged” is like telling plants to grow. Words matter, but environments win. Encouragement matters because discouragement is real. How to build encouragement into environments...

Former players who lost money in an alleged scam say ex-Cardinals GM Steve Keim's involvement helped convince them it was legitimate.

After 28 years, the Cook Islands men’s national team is playing at home again. We explore the obstacles behind the wait and what this return means.

In Japanese forests, damage from a bear’s claw can cost a tree its commercial value. But in Takuya Tsutsumi’s studio, that wood becomes the raw material for a project to help people and bears coexist.

A yearlong investigation of Greek houses reveals their endemic, lurid, and sometimes tragic problems—and a sophisticated system for shifting the blame.

The district attorney has reopened the criminal case.

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You don’t need a magnetic personality to make work compelling.

The solution to every problem in college football and basketball these days? Ask fans for more money. And Congress can't change that.

More than a quarter of a million people descended on Ole Miss to watch the Rebels exact revenge on Lane Kiffin. The game offered so much more than that.

Photographer Julia Gunther and writer-filmmaker Nick Schönfeld chronicle the rhythms of daily life on Tristan da Cunha, the world’s most remote inhabited island.

Your senses capture only a fraction of reality. Explore the five layers between raw perception and belief, and why epistemic humility matters.

In "Revenge of the Tipping Point," journalist Malcolm Gladwell explores a peculiar phenomenon of group dynamics.

How many states of matter do you think there are?In school, you were probably taught that there are three: solid, liquid, and gas.If you were a nightmare for your teachers, you might have put your han...

You don’t need certainty to have clarity. Uncertainty means you can’t predict the future. Clarity shapes your actions. You can’t predict outcomes. You can choose direction. Turbulence is no place to a...

When an accident involving top prospect Oneil Cruz left three dead on a darkened road in the Dominican Republic, secret payoffs helped rescue his career and launched a shadowy business empire.

College football stadiums are selling more beer than ever. Learn how changing conference rules and growing revenue needs turned gameday beer into big business.

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Squeezed by rising costs and middle-aged malaise, mom and dad increasingly want junior to consider big, affordable colleges down south where everyone can have fun—even them.

Not every country has the same recipe for brain food.

The red-white-and-blue popsicles are the ultimate shorthand Americana — a throwback to the simple days of ice cream trucks, July 4th fireworks and humid summer nights. But after the Bomb Pop came on t...

Accountability without consequences is wishful thinking. Consequences mean decisions matter. Don't hold people accountable for what they hope to do. Hold them accountable for what they agree to do. Su...

The game's long, weird, elitist history provides some clues.

After all the surgeries, scars and rehab, Goosby made it here: The anchor on a Texas offensive line that protects Arch Manning. Up next for the Longhorns is a heavyweight clash with No. 1 Ohio State. ...

No man—and no country—can live life in reverse.

At nineteen, Asad Dandia discovered that an NYPD informant was spying on him. He joined a landmark suit against the department—and won.

Christopher Sorrentino explores how AI helped him revive his writing process and renovate the novel as an experimental form.

At Fox Run, one of Ohio’s largest youth residential treatment centers, kids and former staff detail a litany of trauma.

The dignity of an honest day’s work should always be remembered and honored.

Major League Baseball has suspended a once-prized Dominican prospect after uncovering an age-fraud plot that included a fictitious death, sources told ESPN.

LSU's battle with the SEC is a microcosm of the unraveling of college athletics.

Scientists discovered a strange feature in certain octopuses’ ribosomal RNA, molecules that create a 3D scaffold for cellular protein factories. It was found only in shallow-water creatures that have ...

States should adopt the federal standard for expert testimony and make reliability a threshold requirement, not a question left for jurors to sort out after unreliable science has been heard.

The silver-tongued swindler has given way to phishing links and industrial-scale fraud

Part One: Rush

Praise expresses approval. “Good job.” Appreciation expresses value. “What you did matters.” Praise and appreciation overlap. But praise leans toward performance. Appreciation leans toward the person....

More than anything, I really just want to make sure that I’m doing whatever’s best for my wife and our children.

As last-place punishments get more elaborate, humiliating and downright diabolical, the race to avoid the bottom has become almost as intense as the race to win.

Behind the rhinestones and under the towering wigs was a singular artist and businesswoman who owned her talent, her music, and her place in American life.

Explore how Shazam and song identification work through interactive visualizations: spectrograms, constellation maps, hash fingerprints, and time-offset matching.

Turf wars. Food and fire hazards. $15 ice-cream cones. How an organized network of unlicensed food trucks took over America's Front Lawn.

Making money from a theme park can feel like a roller coaster ride.

“If you believe it, you can achieve it” is nonsense. Reality always wins. Belief’s power shows up in what it does to you. Beliefs shape: What you see. What you feel. What you do. Successful leaders sh...

Cornerbacks are not one-size-fits-all. From the man coverage stars to the ball hawks and risk-takers, this is your complete guide to the best players at this important position.

In 101 pro fights across seven years, England's Jake Pollard has lost 100 of them. Yet he not only survives, but thrives in a sport that quietly depends on men just like him. How?

Sixty years ago, Johnny Carson and Eva Gabor played Twister on “The Tonight Show,” and the public took it as permission to buy the controversial game

Drones now dominate the war in Ukraine. Fly through the front line’s deadly “kill zone” and discover how surveillance, kamikaze drones and new tactics are reshaping modern warfare. An immersive Reuter...

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