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David Moir/Reuters Paintings Are Objects That Are Bought and Sold
A Marxist take on art that can inform every field of human study.
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Earnie Grafton / Reuters A Frank Conversation About Campus Rape
Two close observers of academic life discuss sexual assault, due process, and how to prepare incoming freshmen for the dangers–and pleasures–of college.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters A Distaste for the Memory of the Tale
Across centuries and generations, Americans have been unpleasantly surprised by the failure of our attempts to forget and transcend history.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Cheerful Belligerence of Lindsey Graham
The Republican presidential candidate explains why he would threaten Iran with war and send U.S. ground troops into Syria and Iraq.
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Ryk Neethling / Flickr The Origins of 'Fundamentalism'
The word came into popular usage in the 1920s, but it’s used quite differently today.
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C2 Photography What Diversity Means to a Black Southerner at The New York Times
The New York Times columnist and book author Charles Blow reflects on the many aspects of his identity and how they inflect his work.
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Deanna Dent / Reuters Why the Obama Administration Changed Its Hostage Policy
A candid explanation from Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes
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Michaela Rehle / Reuters The Satisfaction of an Inventor
UCLA Chancellor Gene D. Block remembers an attempt to reduce infant deaths.
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Move Over, Shakespeare—Science Has Insights Into Love, Too
The notion of using scientific methods to illuminate matters of the heart was once ridiculed, but has been vindicated in recent years.
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Debra Hughes / Shutterstock 100 Percent Is Overrated
People labeled “smart” at a young age don’t deal well with being wrong. Life grows stagnant.
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Issei Kato / Reuters Why Teenagers Hit Puberty and Take Dumb Risks
In adolescence, the brain’s reward centers light up when acting recklessly in front of peers.
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manoftaste.de / Flickr 'The Solution I Propose Is Massive Civil Disobedience'
Scholar Charles Murray wants “to make large chunks of the regulatory code unenforceable.” How? “I want to put sugar in the government's gas tank.”
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Claro Cortes / Reuters Is the Premise of Meritocracy Immoral?
A challenge to the widely held notion that the power of brains is more legitimate than the power of fists.
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Jason Lee / Reuters The Region That's Really Driving Obama's Foreign Policy
It’s not the Middle East, according to Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Lessons From Thomas Jefferson's Failure on Slavery
Why did the author of the Declaration of Independence fail to attack slavery as president? In large part because he was a politician.
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Evan Vucci / AP The Senate's Bathroom-Stall Index
One measure of America’s slow progress toward boosting the number of women in elective office is the number of toilets in the congressional restrooms.
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Reuters What If the Oceans Were National Parks?
Ocean conservationists want to bring the same approach to the ocean that the century-old National Park Service brought to the land.
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Jason Reed / Reuters Frankenstein for President
The ideal Republican nominee doesn't necessarily exist, but among the dozen or so candidates in the race, the GOP still has a strong chance of winning the White House, two conservatives suggest.
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Fabian Bimmer / Reuters The Downside of Medical Screening
Depending on the disease, getting tested could do more harm than good.
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters Federal Judge: My Drug War Sentences Were ‘Unfair and Disproportionate’
Nancy Gertner, who left the bench after 17 years, compares the damage caused by drug prohibition to the destruction of cities in World War II.
