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How the autonomous digital forces jolting our lives – as uncontrollable as the weather and plate tectonics – are transforming life, society, cultur...

In the not-too-distant future, we'll be plugging our brains into the internet, replacing our worn-out body parts, and eating meat grown in a lab. I...

Marc Lewis's relationship with drugs began in a New England boarding school where, as a bullied and homesick fifteen-year-old, he made brief escape...

What is it that makes a man strap himself into an automobile and drive it hundreds of laps around a track at speeds surpassing 200 miles per hour? ...

A unique playbook for fighting the flood of disinformation—not by correcting lies but by targeting the businesses that fund them. Disinformation is...

"In the age of fake news, understanding who we trust and why is essential in explaining everything from leadership to power to our daily relations...

The election of Barack Obama has brought worldwide attention not only to what his policies will be, but to what kind of First Lady Michelle Obama w...

The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize shares her inspirational, powerful story of how a group of women working together created an unstoppable force ...

A biography of the business mogul, former New York City mayor, and 2020 democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg has repeatedly defied the ...

A Next Big Idea Club Winter 2021 Must ReadThe ability to connect with another person's physical and emotional state is one of the most elusive int...

The biggest problem in American health care is us Do you know how to tell good health care from bad health care? Guess again. As patients, we wrong...

She was a groomed for a gilded life in moneyed Houston, but Molly Ivins left the country club behind to become one of the most provocative, courage...

The 2012 presidential campaign will, above all else, be a referendum on the Obama administration's handling of the financial crisis, recalling the ...

After losing his brother to cancer and a painful divorce that left him the sole charge d'affaires of two decidedly spirited children, environmental...

A sweeping history that tracks the development of trade and industry across the world, from Ancient Rome to today.From the development of internati...

A sweeping history that tracks the development of trade and industry across the world, from Ancient Rome to today.From the development of internati...

People feel angry and let down by their leaders, as well as by the institutions that dominate their lives: political parties, government bureaucrac...

More Terrible Than Death is a gripping work that maps the dramatic new relationship between the United States and Colombia in human terms, using p...

The implosion of the Soviet Union was the culmination of a gripping game played out between two men who intensely disliked each other and had diffe...

Following his single term as President of the United States (1825-1829), John Quincy Adams, embittered by his loss to Andrew Jackson, boycotted his...

In summer of 2000, legal secretary Donna Moffett answered an ad for the New York City Teaching Fellows program, which sought to recruit "talented p...

Robert Mugabe came to power in Zimbabwe in 1980 after a long civil war in Rhodesia. The white minority government had become an international outca...

On September 30, 2006 gunfire echoed through the thin air near Advance Base Camp on Cho Oyu Mountain. Frequented by thousands of climbers each year...