Reza Pahlavi may be the figurehead of the monarchists, but he does not represent most of the 92 million people of Iran.

Every January, Americans swear this will be the year they finally change. Lose weight. Fix a relationship. Stop ...

Yesterday I saw a friend, Bridget, whom I had not seen for a full year. “How have you been?” she asked. “I have learned a lot about myself this year,” I told her. But at the time it was hard to say ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since ...

I don’t normally tackle controversial issues, but today I’m going out on a limb. Baths are better than showers. I don’t care what my husband, Peter, or my mother and father have to say on the subject.

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Nick Bryant was driving down U.S. 19 to pick up his then-girlfriend, Ginger, for a date when he saw an alligator crossing the highway. He pulled over, as did several other drivers, and Nick said, “If ...

“Who is Madeline?” asks my daughter. We’ve been singing that new Lily Allen song all morning—“Da da da da da da da who’s Madeline?”; we can’t get it out of our heads. How should I answer? Madeline ...

Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since Aristotle, who wrote that humanity was “the animal that has language.” ...

In the gloomy old State Department Building many a window stayed lighted all night long last week while clerks decoded a stream of cables that poured in from abroad. Across the street in the White ...

Martin Thomas’s article against metabolism (Solidarity 753) is not a postscript to my critique of Monthly Review published in the previous paper, because I resoundingly reject almost everything he ...