At 5,525 miles, it is the longest border between any two countries. And that border — separating the United States and Canada — seems set to become a flashpoint between…

The best and worst developments in public health have always come from moments of crisis. In 1937, when the Food and Drug Administration was still a tiny, toothless backwater unable…

Several years ago, to attract more students, Jean Muteba Rahier spiced up the name of his introduction to the anthropology of religion course. He called it Myth, Ritual and Mysticism.…

When his daughter turned 12, Gighe Dutta decided this would be the year that he and his wife quit cutting sugar cane in the fields of western India. The work…

A federal jury on Wednesday awarded nearly $100 million to the family of Botham Shem Jean, a Black man who was eating ice cream and watching television at home in…

A two-week marathon of climate talks has entered its grueling final dash with developed and developing nations still deadlocked over how many hundreds of billions of dollars wealthy countries should…

Yves here. This piece is so science-illiterate and otherwise incoherent that I thought our physics and chemistry-knowledgeable readers would have particular fun picking it apart. Even a mere high school…

Anthony Weiner walked in mostly unnoticed, quickly taking his place in a barber’s chair, an unlikely prop on his latest reclamation tour. He offered some brief instructions — part it…

This is The Housing Crunch, a five-part series on New York City’s affordable housing crisis. The Crown Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn has felt the housing crisis deeply. The area, which…

Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Here are the 50…