Scientists observed a family of pygmy raccoons near a Cozumel beach club learning from one another how to craft balls from paper, an indication that the animals have a culture.

A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.

Shutdown of study is latest for Trump administration, which has canceled, frozen and otherwise disrupted more than 5,700 medical research grants over two years

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The actress told the Hay Festival she is writing a film version of Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls to draw attention to sexual abuse in war zones

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

How a right-wing smear campaign tried to silence the reality of Thomas Jefferson’s life, and in some ways succeeded.

There’s a big idea that could fix America’s gerrymandering madness. The Supreme Court’s ‘Callais’ decision put us in a redistricting doom loop. Embracing proportional representation may be the only way out, writes New York’s Ed Kilgore.