Ten extraordinary non-fiction books that feel like sitting across from brilliance — thoughtful, human, and impossible to ...

This is the account of the discovery of a skull that has the potential to change what we know about human evolution, and a suppression and cover-up which followed. In 1959, in an area called ...

Much contemporary left thought focuses on what is wrong with capitalism. Is capitalism bad because of its unjust distributive ...

John Kaag is an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute and professor of philosophy at UMass Lowell. He is cofounder of ...

There are arguably few ancient thinkers as influential in their domains as Socrates, Aristotle, and Confucius. Emerging from different cultures or epochs in time, these three remarkable teachers ...

Trump and RFK’s false claims about autism and Tylenol aren’t an aberration — they’re part of a consistent strategy.

In Washington Post editorial, six former surgeons general say HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. risks Americans’ lives.

There are those who worry that the mass adoption of something like incel slang gradually validates the worldview it springs from — and there are others who’d dismiss that as the whining of an “N.P.C., ...

Autism — diagnosed in 1 in 31 US children, a rate that’s on the rise — affects how people learn, behave, communicate and interact with others.

Philosopher Jonah Branding’s “decision tree” explores a new road map for identifying consciousness in living things.

Pope Francis said on Sunday that the COVID-19 pandemic was the latest crisis to prove that market forces alone and "trickle-down" economic policies had failed to produce the social benefits their ...

While referring to a video of a woman “gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta,” Health and Human Services Secretary ...