Culture & Religion

Researchers hope training machines to the test will allow for advances in imbuing software with basic common sense.

It happened 500 years ago — and again in the 19th century.

Work isn’t life, but it is certainly not in a company’s best interest to de-prioritize itself for the sake of its workers. What’s the solution?  

Since being jailed last week for contempt of court, Kim Davis has emerged as a heroine for the conservative Christian Right.

Or did you not even realize you were being watched.

SAT scores are the lowest they’ve been in a decade, so we’re making the test easier to take. What does that say about our data-obsessed culture?

Take part in the biggest media campaign in history and spread awareness of UN’s Global Goals for the next 15 years. 

A sociologist has launched a blistering attack on his own field, but the problem he addresses is something that affects us all.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s comments are plainly spoken, aspirational, and cognizant of an American aesthetic. It’s presidential material, actually.

A federal judge has dragged reproductive rights out of the mud of religion into the lofty heights of moral philosophy.

Recent trends in the habits of romantic millennials appear to buck conventional wisdom and well-regarded theories of communication.

To mark the centennial of Trappist monk, poet, theologian, and social activist Thomas Merton’s birth, a new exhibition focuses on his photography and how those photos are not just images to contemplate, but also ways of Zen contemplation.

Our “follow your dreams” culture encourages us to listen to our gut, while society demands practicality. But what does that mean for artists?

Did you know 30 percent of job recruiters have had a parent submit a résumé for their child? Or that girls tend to be helicoptered more than boys?

Researchers attempt to distill the science of dirty talk, submissive sexual activity, and the overall nature of arousal.

The ethics and realities of autonomous cars.

From “Border Walls” to “Anchor Babies,” the immigration debate heats up every American presidential election. An art instillation challenges the cruelty of much of that rhetoric and questions the very idea of borders.

Mental illness is not one-size-fits-all. Just look at the state of mental health in the black community, which is replete with unique and systemic issues.

As far as health risks go, sleep disorders tend to fly beneath the radar. Researchers are trying to change that.

Open borders would lead to a massive wave of immigration and probably the collapse of American constitutional democracy… though one economist says that’s not a bad thing.

And having network of social support is great medicine.

A new study says critical thinking is a teachable skill, but who is going to teach it?

Late night has become uninteresting and often unfunny, but all of that may change with the help of Stephen Colbert.

Couldn’t we just get all the nutrients we need from food?

In the first Republican presidential debate earlier this month, John Kasich, the governor of Ohio, surprised many with a performance that seemed to rescue the concept of “compassionate conservatism” from […]

For art history, August 21 and 22 are the dates that will live in infamy. In some strange nexus of negative karma stretching over nearly a century, three of the greatest art heists of all time took place on these dates.

Experts say hovering parents set our kids up for failure — but why is that, and what can we do to change?

The Black Mambas regularly face unpredictable safari animals and heavily armed poachers.

With self-driving cars as well as other new tech, Apple and Google maintain starkly different corporate values with regard to transparency.

Forget asteroids, plagues, or zombies: The true apocalypse will (allegedly) be the curiosity of tattooed millennials.