Ernest Hemingway didn't think so. The author and aficionado of the activity thought it more a drama where the bull and the bullfighter play their respective roles: death and danger.

Brooklyn-based design studio Hyperakt operates under the admirable slogan of “Meaningful Design for the Common Good” – a commitment to only work with companies whose products and services create positive change […]

“Pure energy,” intoned Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock in the classic Star Trek episode “Errand of Mercy.” (In 1988, Information Society immortalized the phrase when they sampled it into their […]

Will wonders never cease: professional self-promoter Emily Gould recently accused feminist blogs of stoking their readers’ outrage to “gin up page views.” Gould’s case in point is a reported piece […]

We have not come out of the recession enough to stop spending money says the Foreign Affairs editor.

Britain’s role in foreign affairs has been in decline for a long time, and that will continue unless the country joins with other European countries in a very sustained way.

If we pull off our plan to “train and transfer” and win over some Taliban recruits by giving them a share of the government, the outcome will be a “very […]

The country is a “formidable opponent,” but the United States will remain the world’s leading superpower for the foreseeable future.

The American public’s interest in the rest of the world waxes and wanes depending on how close a crisis is to home.

The Asian nation—with its big military, nuclear weapons, and ongoing conflict with India—has been a “dangerous state” for the U.S. for some time. We’re only now starting to realize how […]

A conversation with the editor of Foreign Affairs Magazine.

Ever since I first started going to Russia in early 1956, I have been impressed by the fact that the Russian people, generally speaking, admire the United States.  For decades,even […]

It’s possible that there is a tiny, curled-up dimension in every point surrounding us, each too small for us to perceive or comprehend.

Molecular clouds that communicate with one another may continue to have a type of intelligence in the distant future, but “these bodies that we enjoy are not going to make […]

If one imagined and described the most logically elegant way to construct a universe, the result wouldn’t resemble ours.

Inside the Milky Way and every other galaxy there is a giant black hole at the center. Even in early times there were these types of holes, each weighing a […]

“It is really a high density situation that we call the big bang, but there is really no explosion,” says Freese. “There is no ‘bang.’ There is no singular point.”

A conversation with the University of Michigan theoretical astrophysicist.

In order for Europe to pull ahead, it must overcome challenges of confidence and a graying demographic.

Will we become a couch-potato society of information consumers, or will we be empowered, motivated and active?