In his novel Foucault’s Pendulum, the late Umberto Eco dreamed up a plot for our time. The book portrays a collection of enlightened skeptics who…
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Joe Biden has been around Washington so long that he cast one of his first big votes as a U.S. senator during the Vietnam War—at…
Going extra light at the grocery store. Cutting down on medical supplies. Buying clothing and household supplies secondhand. These are just some of the many…
Over the past 30 years China has become the world’s factory. For the past few weeks, the production line has been shut down by plant closures deemed…
My Spotify workout playlist is a time warp. Growing up in a blue-collar neighborhood of New York City in the 1990s and early 2000s, listening…
Cheating, and the lying that always accompanies it, is probably as old as the human species. At the same time, that is probably how long…
On January 19—a week before the Lunar New Year—Tommy Tang left Shenzhen with his girlfriend to visit her family in Wuhan for the holiday. They…
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) on Wednesday announced legislation that would ban fracking throughout the U.S. “Fracking is destroying our land and our water. It…
On the heels of reports that U.S. household debt hit $14 trillion for the first time in history, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell told lawmakers…
American consumers are hungry for more climate-friendly plant-based diets, but they need more information, according to results from a national survey released today by the…
We hear all the time that we are at the tipping point of a long history of increasing energy consumption. Unfettered energy use is eating…
CINCINNATI — A rash and joint pain may have saved Lily McBreen's life by getting her to the doctor in time for a breast cancer…