Rethinking the legacy of writers who worked with the CIA.

Trump is more paranoid and dangerous than Nixon.

How soap operas remade TV in their own image.

Lawmakers are cracking down on them for shady business practices. But sociology professor Tressie McMillan Cottom says bigger forces are at play.

U.S. intelligence agencies are funding a new scientific partnership that combines James Bond spy-craft and Silicon Valley wizardry.

Robert Dear shot up a Planned Parenthood clinic and killed three people. Did the right-wing media help turn a disturbed loner into a mass murderer?

How decades of economic hardship and neglect have turned Nebraska's farming towns into Donald Trump country.

The modern marriage is an elaborate feat of performance.

What did Barack Obama accomplish? And how much of it will survive in the age of Trump? Five historians and political observers weigh in.

How Trump redeemed alienated conservatives and cast liberals into the political wilderness.

Why libertarians adore Jane Jacobs.

A private contractor tossed U.S. military waste in Iraq and Afghanistan into giant pits and burned it. Now soldiers forced to breathe the toxic fumes are sick or dying—and the government is using faulty science to evade responsibility.

He appeared out of nowhere. He had no name, no memory, no past. He was the only person the FBI ever listed as missing even though they knew where he was. How could B.K. Doe remain anonymous in the modern age’s matrix of observation?

NASA wants to send humans to Mars by the 2030s. Neal Lane, Bill Clinton’s science adviser, says we should be looking at a closer goal.

Last year, the Kremlin called for an increase in patriotic youth—children who would grow up to be soldiers—by sending them to camp.

When the Justice Department goes easy on Wall Street, battered women pay the price.

Why are so many secular hospitals imposing religious restrictions on medical care?

The Arctic is warming twice as fast as any place on the planet. Can native villages in northernmost Alaska survive climate change?