Nearly 25 years after Robert Putnam’s Bowling Alone, Americans are more socially isolated than ever.

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An FBI background check for political appointees is only customary; there’s no legal backing for it. No other branch of ...

In a way it’s odd to think that Wicked ’s political messaging feels so prescient, since most Wicked fans would agree that the ...

We will collectively eat more than 40 million turkeys — factory farmed and heavily engineered animals that bear scant ...

The concept of humility can be elusive in a culture that places a premium on (and even requires) constant self-aggrandizement ...

DON’T bother reheating leftovers, unless you want to. So long as food was cooked to the appropriate temperature at the time ...

On the one hand, you have the die-hards: people who, for example, voted for Trump twice in the GOP primary. Research suggests ...

Overall, however, experts told Vox that Cabinet secretaries only have so much leeway to break with their administration. As a ...

On the most essential level, polarization just makes people feel sick. Whether people are conservative or liberal, the mere ...

Noah Gordon is acting co-director of the Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC. His research focuses on climate change ...

Carly Stern is an independent journalist based in New York who explores different facets of inequality through narrative stories. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the ...