Edith Wharton on Spreading Light

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How much do citizens really value free elections?

Fraud is a $5 trillion “industry.” But not all its perpetrators look alike. Kelly Richmond Pope, a professor of accounting, breaks down who commits fraud — and why.

In general relativity, matter and energy curve spacetime, which we experience as gravity. Why can't there be an "antigravity" force?

The pseudoscience phrenology swept the popular imagination, and its practitioners made a mint preying on prejudices, gullibility, and misinformation.