Artificial scientists’ can use machine-learning algorithms to design experiments that are beyond the intuition of humans ...

Today a bitter dispute about the nature of biology is underway. A simple bag of beans may be what tips the balance ...

Sometimes wicked but always powerful. Why did witches transform from figures of fear to figures of entertainment and aspiration?

French troops on the road from Nam Định to Thái Bình City in Vietnam, May 1954. Photo by Robert Capa/Magnum Scroll through the comments section of any popular YouTube video about Vietnamese history, ...

is professor of political science at the University of Chicago. His latest book is Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn’t, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies (2025). As I cycle from downtown ...

In Rwanda, 2,000 to 10,000 adults are estimated to have been conceived through rapes that occurred during the 1994 genocide of the Tutsi ethnic group. Despite the country’s many efforts to reckon with ...