Brussels is turning to citizens’ assemblies to fix democracy. Do they work?

The mustard was the same brand I buy every time, Maille Dijon Originale, but it was much, much stronger than usual.

Godwits make the longest non-stop migration in the bird world. That might be the least of the shorebirds’ marvels. Can they survive a changing planet?

A man with a vision set out to revolutionize preschool. It became a $440 million fiasco.

The city boasts an impressive ratio of up to one critter for every four people

The city boasts an impressive ratio of up to one critter for every four people

Canada's tiniest brewery wanted to relocate three miles across a bridge. The internet had other plans.

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They are willing to pay some price simply as an act of defiance

A strange trip through the U.S. prison system's never-ending cycle of failure and reform

As well as being quieter, cheaper to run and easier to clean, induction cookers can cut kitchen temperatures by up to 10C

The Wall Street Journal is defending an op-ed written by a chatbot.

It’s been nearly two years since the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) ratified a standard of identity for American single malt. The milestone was hailed as a victory by distillers across...

When my family brought cloudberries home from the bog, the ripe ones always went straight onto pancakes or into jars; the green ones we spread across a blanket…

Trump got elected—again.They packed up their lives.Now they’re here.

Vote-by-mail was not always such a hot topic. It’s a longstanding practice in the U.S., dating back to the Civil War and even before then. It’s secure, with audits repeatedly... Read More

Designer Simon Weckert has created a colourful, camouflage shirt that cannot be detected using AI video systems.

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The illusion that we are all somehow above-average drivers is quietly slowing the adoption of autonomous vehicles that could save tens of thousands of lives each year.

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An investigation into the state of corvid–human relations.

I was a fifty-year newspaper veteran and a journalism professor. Then I joined the Salt Lake Tribune as a junior editor.

Separating truth from fiction in the most successful African movie of all time

Few people know how much medicine has progressed in their lifetimes. Fewer know how much faster it could be progressing.

A new way of finding worthwhile writing and other media on the internet

A new way of finding worthwhile writing and other media on the internet

A New York Times veteran considers the art of the obituary and how words give shape to legacies.

The myth and science of the country’s favorite floofy, fluffy cuddle-badgers

These six animals are diverse, fierce, and independent—just like Texans

How a country shaped by its fascist past is on the verge of watching the far-right party close in on control

A neuroscientist dares to argue that old-fashioned psychoanalysis holds the key to curing mental illness.

I became a Sonny Rollins fan on my 13th birthday, when my dad took me for the first time to his favorite record store in Portland, Oregon. He gave me $50, which in 1987, netted me twelve LPs. One was ...

How one of Canada’s legendary figures turned self-invention into an art form

Social media and streaming have changed who can book shows and how. Those new incentives might even convince a local band to play a hot-dog joint.

Pittsburgh adds to a growing national fascination with clowns that brings the performers back to their inventive, playful, often subversive roots.