Darnell Moore and Brittany Cooper in conversation on Alex Haley's book ban, voting rights, and racial justice.

After decades of depending on customers who had to beg their parents for pocket money—and who would eventually grow up—the toy industry has found a savior in “kid-ults.”

Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.

Authoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable

At the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington, D.C., attendees talked less about jobs and policy, and more about their philosophy of life.

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One of the country’s most popular novelists writes what she calls socially engaged fiction. In Barbara Kingsolver’s new book, she considers the role of art—and who it’s for.

Binary tests offer an illusion of certainty, but pregnancy is a nonlinear experience, and confirming one is a process of slowly ruling out all other possibilities.

She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...

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A new course by professors Miriam Udel and Didem Uca introduces students to the art of preserving original meaning when translating creative works, even when definitions cannot be exactly replicated.…

Amid backlash over the Met Gala's choice to honor designer John Galliano, officials are "mulling" whether to reschedule away from Holocaust Remembrance Day.