Seventy-five years after its first publication date, The Grapes of Wrath is still a staple in most American classrooms. Is that because we haven’t yet written anything that does a better job of ...

It would cost about $250 million to get an additional 650,000 low-income Americans to breastfeed as much as experts recommend, but it would save families and the health-care system $1.5 billion, a ...

They won’t be lost to fire, like much of the Universal Music catalog, but who will save the mixtapes? In 2008, a 24-hour inferno ripped through a Universal Studios backlot, incinerating a massive ...

We met at 18. We wed at 24. At 27, I checked my wife into a psych ward—for the first time. How mental illness re-shapes a marriage. The first time I saw my wife walking around the Georgetown campus I ...

Jim Jones and David Koresh are among the small handful of men who remain even more infamous than the cults they led. Not every middle-aged American will remember the People’s Temple of the Disciples ...

Research has found that migrants and refugees don’t spread diseases to host populations, though migrants themselves are often at higher risk of illness because of poor living conditions. One of the ...

World War II did not start with Nazi Germany invading Poland. It started with both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union invading Poland. Communists joined with fascists to unleash the most destructive ...

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So Jones grew alarmed when, soon after starting at DePaul in the fall of 2007, at age 27, she began having trouble retaining things she had just read. She also struggled to memorize the new characters ...

The day after Earth Day at the New York Botanical Garden was one of those spring stunners when half the city had come out to get their nature fix after a long, gray winter. Couples lolled on the lawns ...

Nearly 45 years after they put the female superhero on the cover of Ms. magazine’s first issue, the players behind the cover consider its impact, and the new movie. None of this hand-wringing is new: ...

There’s a hybrid bear roaming the Arctic—and as the sea ice melts, scientists expect more inter-species breeding to come. I thought it was a joke when I first heard about it two or three years ago: a ...