“Fiat money,” reads one of many such panegyrics, “is the most significant innovation in money since the Lydians minted their ...

Again and again her characters contend with the changing physical borders within which they and their families must live, in ...

Politicians and policy experts like to talk about the “root causes” of crime, homelessness, poverty, rising prices and other ...

Politicians and policy experts like to talk about the "root causes" of crime, homelessness, poverty, rising prices and other ...

A new medical study found that the wide-ranging symptoms of Gulf War illness appear to be caused by a failure of cells to produce adequate energy, bringing experts a step closer to finding the root ...

The link between the size and scope of the state and the growth of political polarization rests on a simple fact: Individuals are not identical. We have different desires, needs, tastes and ...

Netflix announced Friday that it has agreed to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery’s studio streaming-focused company HBO Max for ...

Together, the N.I.H. and the N.S.F. had a nearly $60 billion annual budget for funding future breakthroughs in science and ...

It’s hard to imagine what Schuylkill County families must have thought when they read the bold headline “WAR IS ON” in the ...

The American Civil War was fought between 1861 and 1865, but its true cause remains the subject of debate. Beyond battles and politics, the central issue was slavery and its expansion into new ...

For those of us whose schooling was even moderately successful, meaning we emerged from high school with a strong grasp of ...

Politicians joined in the fervor over apparent drone sightings. While the wave of fear has passed, details about what ...