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In contrast to the noisy and diverse city, the suburbs were seen as spacious, segregated, and quiet — a much more promising state of affairs to corporations bent on expansion.

Those who know about us have power over us. Obfuscation may be our best digital weapon.

Dark, accentuated lines that mark our teeth at birth are providing scientists with remarkable insight into the evolution of human development.

A survey of trepanation, or trephination, the oldest surgical procedure known to humanity.

While a blackout can spark an eruption of sociability and friendliness, it can also be a harbinger of terror, crime or chaos.

Karel Čapek’s play “R.U.R.” premiered in January 1921. Its influence cannot be overstated.

The very nature and purpose of SNAP, or food stamps, remains a point of contention between public health and anti-hunger communities.

A combination of greed, colonial mismanagement and gross incompetence has brought Nauru, once dubbed “Pleasant Island,” to the brink of collapse.

Projections may be affecting the very future they are attempting to predict.

By exposing the psychic toll of dispossession, Dylan’s songs suggest why art in our own moment needs to account for the suffering found there.

The Russians may have been winning the space race in the 1950s, but they couldn’t hold a candle to the sophistication of Western dress.

Small businesses are not the engine of job growth, but that hasn’t stopped small-is-beautiful advocates from continually making the claim.

Had the campaign to bring Freud to Mexico succeeded, the imperiled psychoanalyst would have found himself living among the world’s foremost artists and intellectuals.