Biblical scholar Bart Ehrman contends that our modern sense of altruism can be traced back to the radical shift in ethical thinking sparked by Jesus' teachings.

Activist, author, and Girls Who Code founder Reshma Saujani explains why playing it safe is hurting workplaces — and how to change it.

A preview of the latest book by Chinese history expert Charlotte Brooks

The "Creativity Pioneers" proving that imagination is a practical tool for social transformation.

History shows that progress often depends on activists at both ends of the spectrum.

Ryan Holiday on why wisdom depends on failure, experimentation, and the courage to admit when we’re wrong.

Governance scholar and University of Pittsburgh professor Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili, Ph.D. on the forces that decide whether conflicted nations unify or unravel.

Nearly 30 would be "nones" — an amorphous group that spans from zealous atheists to the vaguely spiritual.

“As a reporter, you can look into the eyes of the people you're talking to and try to evaluate what they're thinking when they say what they say. But you are not really gonna get into their brain. There's only one artistic form that allows you to do that. “

The decades-old movement to diversify workplaces has yielded mixed results, as NYU Law professor Kenji Yoshino suggests that companies often impose restrictive definitions of diversity, and advocates for fostering connections with those who feel pressured to suppress their identities for acceptance.

In this expert class, Kaufman explores how gendered expectations, such as boys not crying and girls playing with dolls, persist into adulthood and offers strategies for advocating for gender equality by reevaluating these societal norms.

“You can debate all sorts of things about how the texture of American life has changed. What you can't debate is the sheer, objective, existential fact that Americans are more alone than ever.”

Rutger Bregman's "Moral Ambition" wants us to aim our careers not at money but solving the world's biggest problems.

"It's a true fact, but a bizarre one, that the reason why hundreds of thousands of people died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki rather than Kyoto and Kokura, is because of a 19-year-old vacation and a passing cloud."

In "Enough Is Enuf," Gabe Henry traces the history of simplified spelling movements and the lessons they teach us about language.

"These days, no national news network is trusted by more than half of American adults. And that's a problem."

"We're at a very critical point in human history where things are about to change dramatically. One of the beauties of these AI tools is you now can just be anything that you dreamt of being."

When you enter someone's home, you learn how life is lived elsewhere.

The New York Times bestselling author and founder of Going With Grace shares how close confrontations with death inspired her to change her life.

From Allen Funt to Donald Trump, author Emily Nussbaum explains how reality TV has blurred the lines between, well, reality and TV.

Do we really need to be religious to run a society well?

People who've never been partnered tend to be less extraverted, less conscientious, and more neurotic.

“We've engineered a volatile world where Starbucks is completely unchanging from year to year, but democracies are collapsing and rivers are drying up.”

In his latest book, Malcolm Gladwell explores a strange phenomenon of group dynamics.

Can creativity really change the world? Creativity Pioneers argue that it can. By using art, culture, and imagination, these innovators are tackling some of the most pressing social issues of […]

Reading this article would be such a millennial thing to do.

The electoral reform also known as instant-runoff voting promises bridge-building and broad appeal instead of culture war and gridlock.

Kaelynn Partlow shares her story about life with autism, ADHD, and dyslexia, and how finding the right diagnosis helped her embrace her neurodivergent identity.

How “Catastrophe and Social Change” (1920) became the first systematic analysis of human behavior in a disaster.

Alan Turing and Christopher Strachey created a ground-breaking computer program that allowed them to express affection vicariously when so doing publicly, as gay men, was criminal.