As CEO of Intrade, John Delaney harnessed the wisdom of the crowds, with often freakishly prescient results. Technocratic dreamers were ecstatic about the company's ability to predict the future, and ...

Thomas Day just wanted to find a wife. He had tried all the usual ways—Day had been educated at Oxford and met plenty of eligible young women, sisters of his peers, including one to whom he became ...

Nearly 45 years after they put the female superhero on the cover of Ms. magazine’s first issue, the players behind the cover consider its impact, and the new movie. None of this hand-wringing is new: ...

The day after Earth Day at the New York Botanical Garden was one of those spring stunners when half the city had come out to get their nature fix after a long, gray winter. Couples lolled on the lawns ...

Women who kill their newborns usually claim to have been in denial about their pregnancies. Can you carry a child to term without realizing it? And if you do, how responsible are you for your actions?

For the first time in my life, I am not a racial minority when I move to Johns Creek, Georgia. People from myriad cultures, ethnicities, religions, and nationalities deem this patch of earth home.

Researchers Christian Davenport and Allan C. Stam say the accepted story of the mass killings of 1994 is incomplete, and the full truth — inconvenient as it may be to the Rwandan government — needs to ...

Thanks in part to the work of Hanns Scharff and a slew of studies on interrogation techniques, we know it’s best to be genuinely friendly no matter who you’re trying to get information out of. The ...

Research has found that migrants and refugees don’t spread diseases to host populations, though migrants themselves are often at higher risk of illness because of poor living conditions. One of the ...

As young people read less and less, they may be short-circuiting their reading brains. They are bright, innovative, confident in their skills on all manner of digital screens and devices: This is ...

They won’t be lost to fire, like much of the Universal Music catalog, but who will save the mixtapes? In 2008, a 24-hour inferno ripped through a Universal Studios backlot, incinerating a massive ...

Forty years ago, thanks to an organization founded by four high school friends, human rights beat out the free market—and now we can all pee for free. In the early 1900s, when railroads connected ...