There have been countless fictional portrayals of fake American presidents in pop culture. From the alien-battling President Thomas Whitmore in “Independence Day” to hopeless romantic President Andrew Shepherd in “the […]

Milan Kundera wrote that “we can never really know what to want because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives, nor perfect it in […]

"Suck it up, suck it up, suck it up," is the refrain taught to members of the U.S. Navy. But despite their often-stoic exteriors, soldiers are real people with real […]

Why don’t we see any Tea Party protests on Wall Street? Why don’t we hear any inflamed rhetoric from Tom Tancredo castigating the chairmen of investment banks who are enjoying […]

Ernst Weizsäcker, Co-chair of the U.N. International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management, believes that we could be doing five times better than we are when it comes to addressing global […]

For Matthew Malin and Andrew Goetz, a business was born from a bar of soap. For most of his life, Goetz washed his face, body, hair and shaved with the […]

What excites the legendary computer scientist about the future? In a word: graphics.

The terrorist attack David Gelernter experienced in 1993 left his body injured, but his mind unfazed.

The basic user interface of our personal computers has stayed the same for a generation. How can we move beyond the desktop?

How spreading sensitive information over thousands of computers could revolutionize digital security.

The "Judaism: A Way of Being" author makes the case for Judaism as the most important intellectual development in Western history.

Throughout the history of Jewish culture, the image has been inseparable from the word.

A conversation with the writer, artist, and Yale computer scientist.

Anti-whaling countries could issue a number of allowances to countries defying a moratorium on whaling—potentially limiting the total number of whales being slaughtered each year.

Researchers doing a statistical analysis of dinosaur fossils have discovered that the entire western interior of the United States was populated by a single community of dinosaurs.

How will the effects of climate change impact politics in America over the next 25 years? Internal migrations could "open up all sorts of new routes to the magic number, 270."

Many are beginning to acknowledge that disease-specific health campaigns in Third World countries can only work if they also strengthen the health systems in those nations.

When undersea eruptions destroy life around hydrothermal vents—the intersections of tectonic plates—new species travel from as far as 200 miles away to repopulate the area.

Behind the scenes at the German-language version of Wikipedia, a small cadre of dedicated volunteers gets into bitter disputes over what is true and what isn't.

"Requiring derivatives and synthetic securities to be registered would be simple and effective; yet the legislation currently under consideration contains no such requirement," writes George Soros.