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How Did the Blues Become the Blues?

In one simple sentence in 1914, Columbus Bragg, an African American writer, helped codify the Blues genre, though he’s largest forgotten.

The first in a New York Times’ series about global obesity looks at the place of processed foods in Brazil.

Cultivating crops led to permanent settlements, but also greed and exploitation. Was it all worth it?

Journalist Erika Hayasaki uses science to show how motherhood can improve creativity.

Alexander Nazaryan spends a night at Trump’s first home in Queens to see if it can tell him anything about the president.

A movement in Jackson, Mississippi is working to remake the way the city governs, feeds, and runs itself in order to serve the black community.

Myanmar’s Rohingya people escape systematic discrimination at home only to suffer depredations in search of new homes.

An 18-year-old Parisian woman streams her suicide on social media.

Williams plans to defend her Australian Open title just three months after giving birth.

Arizona’s struggling public schools offer a glimpse of what America’s public schools might look like under Betsy DeVos’ national voucher program.