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Larry Downing / Reuters How Obama Bounced Back
After a stinging defeat in the 2014 midterm elections, the president found a way to avoid being a lame duck.
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Reuters A Plea for Rapid Resolution of the Brexit
The International Monetary Fund’s Christine Lagarde asks leaders to proceed in “the most efficient, predictable way.”
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Larry Downing / Reuters Susan Rice: The U.S. Must Fight Terrorists Abroad in Iraq, Syria and Beyond
The Obama Administration national security adviser on ISIS, Brexit, and the Rwanda genocide.
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Blueraspberry / Wikimedia Stoking Debate at the Aspen Ideas Festival
Which issues deserve to be discussed more widely, vigorously, or robustly?
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The Aspen Institute / Photo by Dan Bayer What Is Gender, Anyway?
Thoughts from Caitlyn Jenner, Mona Eltahawy, and Bisi Alimi on stigma and pushing beyond the binary.
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Danny Moloshok / Reuters Kim to Caitlyn: 'You Gotta Rock It Every Day'
Why the transgender star equates femininity with makeup
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Ed Bailey / AP Why Vitamins and Other 'Dietary Supplements' Can Contain Anything
Six former FDA commissioners regret inabilities to ensure safety and legitimacy of products.
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Nicolas Raymond / Flickr You Can’t Willpower Your Way to Lasting Weight Loss
Shedding pounds is usually a losing battle—research suggests it’s better to just focus on building a healthy lifestyle.
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Bill Haber / AP The Complicated Connection Between Football and ALS
The film Gleason explores the heartbreaking toll of Lou Gehrig’s disease on a young athlete.
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Warner Bros Is American Literature Too Dark for TV?
The executive producer of Masterpiece says Jane Austen works a lot better on screen than Hemingway does.
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters Seeing the World Through the Eyes of Chimpanzees
Farah Pandith cites Jane Goodall as a figure who helped her learn the value of different perspectives.
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters The Buddhist and the Neuroscientist
What compassion does to the brain
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Valiant Pictures 'That's Good Enough': Words Hollywood Producers Should Never Say to Themselves
Brian Grazer has some rules for success. He hasn’t always followed them.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Lasting Legacy of Antonin Scalia?
The justice has redefined how the Supreme Court interprets statutes, a former Acting Solicitor General of the United States says.
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Jessica Rinaldi / Reuters Empathy: Overrated?
Be kind, show understanding, do good—but, some scientists say, don’t try to feel others’ pain.
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Miguel Vidal / Reuters The ‘Deep Discomfort’ With Talking About Sexuality in a Religious Context
Can churches and synagogues and mosques draw in more Millennials by changing their teachings on gay marriage and other issues?
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Remok van Dokkum / Flickr Do Horoscopes All Say the Same Thing?
An empirical look at the Zodiac through word-frequency analysis.
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KimManleyOrt / Flickr How Math Can Defeat Bullies
The mathematician John Allen Paulos marvels at his field’s counterintuitive proofs. Yet his earliest intellectual thrill was the discovery that numeracy could empower even a child.
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Reuters How to Render the International Criminal Court in Art
The artist Bradley McCallum sought to visually capture the gravitas associated with bringing bad actors to justice while acknowledging that individuals on trial were presumed innocent.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Fixing Urban Schools Without Fixing Poverty Is Possible
That’s the argument of Dr. Pamela Cantor, who believes there are tools we’re failing to give students that would help them overcome the stress that’s holding them back.
