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Do you really want to win an argument, or do you want to find mutual ground and understanding?

Carl Sagan—who first coined the term—was tempted to call them “star-tar.”

Most other countries don’t have universal healthcare because of poverty or war. Why does the U.S. keep clinging to a bad system?

 Organizational behavior expert Dan Cable says disengagement at work is the product of an evolutionary trait. It’s a trait that has a lot to do with our survival and what […]

The story of that one time a U.S. city was run by a Soviet, and what it was like to live in it.

To go beyond meaning you might need a helpful phrase.

Russia’s famed intelligence agency was often successful in getting American secrets.

Detailed (and beautiful) information on 57 million crop fields across the U.S. and Europe are now available online.

The most surefire, easily-seen signature of life on Earth might be a cosmic red herring around other worlds. In our quest for life beyond the Solar System, it makes sense to […]

You’d think we’d be over this fear by now.

Throughout history, anarchists have been responsible for bombings and assassinations, including some very recent ones.

Beef, salt, and water is all the Canadian professor eats. Is that sustainable?

The controversy around the Torah codes gets a new life.

In your Ostara bonnet…

When we see problems in the world, we’re quick to blame someone—anyone—who should be providing peace, love, and harmony. But the universe actually bends toward chaos and decay.

Voting. It’s important. But we don’t exactly make it a priority, do we? Other democracies have outshone the United States when it comes to innovating ways to encourage democratic participation.

This might sound crazy, but hear it out: What if we paid politicians higher salaries with bonus incentives?

It may come as a surprise to some to find that anarchism comes in as many flavors as Ben ‘n Jerry’s.

On hallucinating a teensy Virgin Mary in a water fountain, our weird relationship to fame, her stint as an elf-hunting camp counselor, and more in what feels like a 4 am college conversation with the inimitable Parker Posey.

Humanity is on the move. Fleeing war, oppression, poverty . . . millions worldwide leave their home countries daily in search of asylum. IT WILL BE CHAOS filmmakers Lorena Luciano and Filippo Piscopo on what this means for Europe and the world.

“Life is brutal, and becoming resentful about your relative position is a way to make it more brutal,” says Jordan Peterson.

While the probiotic trend has been suspect at best, there is one therapeutic application that keeps holding up: fecal transplant.

Could consciousness all come down to the way things vibrate?

The world’s getting hotter, and it’s getting more volatile. We need to start thinking about how climate change encourages conflict.

What is liberal America’s big, and possibly fatal, mistake? Failing to recognize its own extremists.

“Anarchy” is often used as a synonym for chaos. Does the historical record match up with that? 

Are we standing on the brink of Mutually Assured Destruction?

Christine Lagorio-Chafkin spent six years writing the definitive history of Reddit.

50 years ago the city of Chicago erupted in a legendary police riot.

Google’s homepage doodle for today, June 22, honors the memory of renowned science fiction author Octavia E. Butler. It would have been her 71st birthday.