The Economist watched with alarm as America descended into civil war in 1861. That April militiamen from South Carolina, which had seceded, bombarded Fort Sumter, a Union stronghold just off the state ...

What’s the most surefire way to achieve Civil War 2.0 in the United States? According to one wild simulation, it’s exactly what’s happening right now in Minneapolis. In October 2024, researchers at ...

A couple of years ago, Jan Haavik was at a routine meeting of a research group that connects scientists studying attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) with people who live with the condition ...

Spencer Overton is the faculty director of a program at GW Law that receives grants from non-profit foundations like the David & Lucile Packard Foundation, Democracy Fund, and the Rockefeller Brothers ...

This easy, two-ingredient cocktail combines Cognac and amaretto to create the perfect after-dinner cocktail. Cognac and amaretto, served over ice with no garnish, make up the French Connection, a ...

A Chicago man was arrested Saturday in connection with the killing of his ex-wife and her husband, an Ohio dentist, in the couple’s home last month. Spencer Tepe, 37, and Monique Tepe, 39, were found ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Police are investigating possible ties between Saturday’s shooting at Brown University and Monday’s slaying of a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the ...

Two concepts haunt modern science like unsolved riddles. Information—the currency of the digital age, the stuff of genes and neurons, perhaps the fabric of reality itself. And consciousness—the inner ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

A new report from The New York Times reveals how the Trump Administration and members of the president’s family may have been involved in a larger movement in conservative circles to support Andrew ...

In searching through family storage, Tim Young found four folded papers. They were dated 1862 and were written to the family of a soldier who fought in the Battle of Perryville. Clay Higgins was the ...