Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - The first recorded world-historical pandemic took place in the Roman Empire and Sasanian Iran, as …

The bestselling novelist promised to financially support the group proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the British government

World Athletics says its genetic test for women ensures ‘the integrity of women’s sport’ – but science does not support this overly simplistic idea.

A simple step we can all take to help stem the rise of fascism. Unfortunately it's not what most of our leaders are doing.

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

Feminism exposed the ubiquity of child abuse, rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence – and helped fight that culture

Was Zabihollah Mansouri secretly a prolific author?

The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

Those who predict that superintelligence will destroy humanity serve the same interests as those who believe that it will solve all of our problems.

DNA tests and organizations such as 23andMe, DNAConnect, GEDmatch, and Nanchang Project are reuniting parents and children separated by China's one-child policy, Barbara Demick reports.

It is impossible to change people’s minds. Every new fact is taken as confirmation of pre-existing bias, every criticism of our in-group taken as a sign of the critic’s bad faith. We are more sure than ever that we are more sure than ever, we are of one

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On the importance of a strong inside strategy.

I’ve never been accused of any crimes, let alone prosecuted. My experience sums-up the draconian plight of non-citizens in the US, says journalist Amandla Thomas-Johnson