Recent images of some of our fine feathered friends at work and at play in the warming Northern Hemisphere.

Now the Iran war has put that ambition’s greatest vulnerability front and center. The scorching, oil-rich desert sands have precluded the development of much, if any, agriculture, forcing governments ...

A touch of annoyance flashes across Cory Booker’s face as we talk about fighting. “Why do people preemptively, continually, ...

A judge suspended the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee, but also said the agency should be consulting it before making ...

Any evolutionary biologist will tell you that humans are social creatures, with brains wired for touch, intimacy, and love. As small societies developed under conditions of food scarcity, prosocial ...

Over the past year or two, AI has become not just a utilitarian tool but a technology that many people are turning to for connection and emotional support. One survey last year found that 16 percent ...

America’s aging infrastructure doesn’t just mean the presence of structural weaknesses but a lack of knowledge about those structural weaknesses.

The dangerous fantasy of total independence ...

Pegah Banihashemi is a constitutional-law scholar at the University of Chicago Law School and a human-rights-law instructor whose work focuses on power structures and political change in the Middle ...

Her efforts to come to terms with polyamory are couched as a political project—part of being an open-minded liberal—as much as a romantic one. And although she describes her husband as a “genius” and ...

A year ago, OpenAI’s ChatGPT was a generic name, the Coke or Kleenex of generative-AI chatbots. Today, its competitors, especially Anthropic’s Claude, are advancing quickly. OpenAI’s fall from favor ...

The turning point came when Saddam Hussein’s Iraq invaded Iran in 1980. That external threat, and the eight-year war that ...