A secret 15-year effort has produced genetic evidence that one of the nation’s Founders fathered children with a woman he enslaved.

On paper, the Kennedy Center had an extraordinary financial year. It reported more than $516 million in total revenue on its ...

She had never heard of a book called Project Erebus. And she certainly wasn’t its author. She looked up her author profile on ...

You have friends in the White House,” he said at a conference hosted by the anti-vaccine organization he founded.

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Reductio ad Hitlerum can have the baleful effect of trivializing the Holocaust, which thankfully has no parallel in the modern American context. Yet closely examining Hitler’s rise can yield useful ...

Suddenly the technology is sapping people’s concentration in a new way, one that abstaining from AI won’t fix.

I f you’re a Democrat, attending a Jon Ossoff rally feels very good. Therapeutic, even. Many Democrats feel as if every day ...

So usually you have to kind of run or you have to scream.” Neira has had more than his fair share of sea-lion encounters, because he’s spent the past decade tracking novel viruses in wild and ...

At first listen, Neil Young’s new song “Soon I Might Be Going” comes across like a sad shake of the head at the hot and Trumpy 2020s. Electric guitars fizzle with the slow majesty of a dying campfire; ...

On September 17, 2001, George W. Bush visited the Islamic Center of Washington, D.C. Six days had passed since the 9/11 attacks, and in that time, reports of harassment and violence against Muslim ...

More than 100 go-kart racers in England, swimming pigs on a Greek island, military training in Syria, a scene from Beijing Fashion Week, and much more ...