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Diane Ravitch on the future of charter schools and public schools under President-Elect Trump.

“Television is a very different world now. But you know what? The show had the perfect life.” Winnie Holzman, the creator of “My So-Called Life,” tells the story behind the show, along with crew and cast members including Wilson Cruz, Devon Odessa, and Devon Gummersall.

Once a body part is removed from its original owner, who does it belong to? Scientists and bioethicists tend to disagree.

“No one wrote escape narratives about Staten Island. Few plumbed the psyches of suburban Trumpists. And no one examined why Democratic Buchanan County had become Republican. Instead, the media class fixated on the spectacle of white trash Appalachia, with Vance as its representative-in-exile.”

In 2014, Tyler Shultz anonymously emailed a complaint to New York officials who administered a proficiency-testing program in which Theranos, a once promising blood testing company, was enrolled. Shultz complained that Theranos doctored research and ignored failed quality-control checks, and warned his grandfather, former Secretary of State George Shultz, who was serving as a company […]

Dan Ariely on building an understanding of how humans behave from the ground up.

Kiera Feldman reports from South Dakota, one of the most restrictive states in the country when it comes to ending a pregnancy.

When they were younger, brothers Abdoulaye and Ibrahima Barry invented a script for their native language, Fulani. They have spent most of their lives getting their new alphabet—called Adlam—adopted widely, added to Unicode, and are now working to get it on your smartphone.

When you hear the recorded sounds of bird song or lapping waves in your acupuncturist’s office, this is where it all started.

“Large-scale resettlement due to rising sea levels is no longer a thought experiment, some hypothetical slow-motion calamity in the hazy future engulfing remote coastal villages. This is Mumbai and Shanghai. This is Piazza San Marco in Venice. This is Manhattan and Miami.” Zachary Slobig visits Gardi Sugdub, a community in the Guna Yala archipelago of […]