The word "gung-ho" used to mean "industrial cooperative." So, how did it come to describe that overeager middle-schooler taking high school math? On today's edition of Word Watch, we explore.

From cover design to shelf placement and influencer partnerships … how publishers will persuade you to buy their books this autumn

The story of a legend at the crossroads of America’s culture wars.

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Can direct and indirect contact with police and immigration enforcement officials influence political participation?

The New York Times Narrated · Episode

Through international organisations, they wield power under the pretence of simply following the experts. Don’t believe them

Indonesian authorities are wrongfully prosecuting environmental defenders and Indigenous leaders who protest deforestation, pollution and land grabs, says a new report by international nonprofit…

A federal judge on Friday turned down a request by Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company to block a law banning nudification technology.

Social pressure for men to look a certain way is coming primarily from other men.

As heatwave intensifies, far-right champions air conditioning while the left calls for renovations and green spaces

The community found refuge from white persecution deep in the Everglades swamps centuries ago. Together with environmental groups, they succeeded in forcing the closure of the immigration detention ce...

The Making of Numbers in Colonial America

Federal judges held stock, bonds and leased mineral rights to Exxon, Chevron and others while hearing cases against the companies alleging damage to the La. coast.

Remember ‘Save the Whales’? Can we apply that same fervor to saving other species, or humans, or the planet? Weather and the Whale gets into these questions. A project collaboratively organized by the...

20th Anniversary Editors’ Choice Collection

Panorama is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication dedicated to American art and visual culture (broadly defined). The journal is intended to provide a high-caliber international forum for d...

The retracted study on ChatGPT in education was already cited hundreds of times.

The Amazon is often described in terms of how much carbon it stores. It also moves vast amounts of water. Its trees draw moisture from the soil and return it to the air through transpiration. Some…

Massive changes to the physical environment over the last decade have been understood by geographers in relation to new social, economic, and institutional impe...