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There was a time in the United States—not that long ago, actually—when local newspapers played an undisputed positive role in

Writing and creative expression have long been among the defining characteristics of humanity as a species. But Naomi Baron chronicles

Persistent Organic Pollutants: you don’t need a Ph.D. in chemistry to recognize realize they are dangerous. But Dr. Rainer Lohmann

The year began with chaos in the U.S. House of Representatives and ended much the same. Along the way, we

From the violence in the Middle East to the dysfunction in Congress, the world feels increasingly untethered. Tom Nichols spent

Coming of age has long been the subject of scholarship and great storytelling. Nikhil Goyal combines both in a study

Not so long ago, Facebook was the unrivaled social media platform, reaching billions of users on a regular basis and

The elements of a scary story might be exotic, super-natural, or even mundane. Tananarive Due weaves all of those things