Every January 1 in the Books department, we like to make an extra toast for a concurrent holiday: Public Domain Day.

Scientists have collected troves of DNA and microscopic imaging data from human cells—and now they have a tool that might ...

The many fires burning around Los Angeles are pressing the limits of firefighting.

Donald Trump, the first convicted felon to be elected president, was sentenced today in his New York hush-money case, ...

America should have more aggressively intervened almost a year ago.

The way to deal with the bombast is by turning it against a leader who leads a movement that is actually deeply divided.

Desperate to impoverish himself, he tries to donate a large amount of his father’s money to a local church; the priest, ...

Literature is full of reminders that long odds can sometimes be surmounted.

A s he sat in prison in 1930, at the opening of a fateful decade, the Italian anti-fascist Antonio Gramsci wrote: “The crisis ...

The government is changing what foods can be branded as “healthy.” It expects basically no one to listen.

He doesn’t believe anything. That’s why he wins. L ast week, President-Elect Donald Trump nominated Morgan Ortagus, a ...

Of course, we’ll never know for sure, but the evidence (including polling) suggests that he would have been crushed by an ...