That respect that people had for each other's office, Chris Matthews says, is completely missing today. It doesn't have to be that way. 

If you take a species and you put it in a new environment, its characteristics change.  And that’s what we’re doing with capitalists.  Capitalists are finding the place that they most need to go is no longer Boston, but Bangladesh. 

Don’t worry. Be happy. Live in the present.  The philosopher Rousseau said that was the natural condition of man, before he was screwed up by self-consciousness, time, awareness of death, […]

Everybody knows how to stay inside their silo.  It takes the courageous soul to cross those boundaries. 

Why are people sometimes more emboldened in their beliefs after being exposed to corrective information?

Kas Thomas: The evidence is substantial enough that people should start thinking about taking substantial amounts of vitamin D as prophylaxis against cancers of all kinds. 

Any theory worth its salt, or any law worthy of the name, should welcome challenge.

Contemporary art, believe it or not, is hot. When comedian Stephen Colbert “begs” British graffiti artist Banksynot to make the walls of his studio’s building the next target in his […]

Frances Townsend, a former Homeland Security Advisor to United States under George W. Bush, brought rosary beads to Saudi Arabia, not realizing that she was committing a crime punishable by death. 

Greg Lemond is the first (and only) American to have won the Tour de France, a feat he accomplished three times, and accomplished cleanly. 

We’re at a pivotal moment and our decisions today really could make a difference for thousands of years.

The planned replacement of the city's famous gas-powered streetlamps with more efficient LED versions is being met with swift objections from locals as well as the World Monument Fund, which put them on its watch list this month.

Executives for the country's only major coffee chain says the multinational company's planned entry into their market should help entice more Colombians to try coffee drinks.

Why are humans so aberrant? It’s because our neurons are lousy processors, so we need big, fat brains to make clever us.

Why are we so aberrant? It’s because our neurons are lousy processors, so we need big, fat brains to make clever us.

A 2002 book that describes a world "without killing, threats to kill, or conditions conducive to killing" is spearheading a global movement that questions what many assume is a natural fact of human existence.

Sir Ken Robinson: My father had a catastrophic accident when he was 45 and he became paralyzed the rest of his life.  But that wasn’t the end of his life.  It wasn’t the end of our family.

Spend more time in the company of people who have the habits you want.

The move is in response to allegations that the US government spied on online and phone communications in the country. One expert says it should work for domestic traffic, but international transactions will require more attention.

The decision rescinds a 2009 court order that originally allowed a Malay-language Catholic newspaper to use the word to refer to God and instigated a wave of church attacks across the country.