America bends over backwards

Answering health experts’ complaints that using vaccination programs for spying had hurt international efforts to fight disease, the CIA says it has stopped the practice.

The dramatic events of the Trojan War are legend—but Homer’s epic poem, Iliad, is devoted entirely to a few mundane weeks at the end of a…

Earlier this week, an anonymous public defender sent Gothamist this photo of an NYPD warrant squad officer wearing a t-shirt with a pretty disturbing quote from Ernest Hemingway: The Village Voice reports that the quote was also printed on…

As public outrage at police brutality grows, we take a look at a few of the practicable, real-world alternatives to the modern police system.

At least 100 people, most of them children, have been killed in a Taliban assault on an army-run school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, officials say.

David Chalmers is a contemporary philosopher of mind, and proponent of panpsychism, the belief that there is some form of consciousness in everything. He believes that it is impossible to explain consciousness scientifically using only objective facts, so if science is to explain consciousness it mu…