The latest episode of Embracing Cultures explores the evolving definition of "civilization," shifting away from rigid ...

Everyone hates a hypocrite. But endlessly hunting for contradictions in others can backfire — and lead to worse outcomes than ...

The pyramids do not merely rise from the desert; they occupy the collective psyche of the nation, standing as permanent ...

During a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing last year in May, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem flubbed the definition of habeas corpus, earning herself a scolding from Senator Maggie ...

History is often taught as if progress moves in a straight line—from ancient Greece to Rome, from medieval Europe to the Renaissance, from industrialization to modernity. Africa, in this telling, ...

As Dr. Christopher Bellavita observed in his 2008 article "Changing Homeland Security: What is Homeland Security?", "The ...

As technology accelerates progress, a paradox emerges: digital nomadism is unraveling humanity back to its hunter-gatherer ...

During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing several weeks ago in October, Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) put U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi in her place by listing out all the questions she refused to ...

Responses to Death of the Author have spanned from enthusiastic praise to measured, thoughtful critique. Many readers have ...

Language and radio signals may not matter to aliens. Instead, they might be using patterns to leave a biological fingerprint.

The source of many disagreements is that people rely, often implicitly, on two radically different notions of “intelligence." ...