The answers people give to this question can be both fascinating and disturbing

Human beings are storytellers but that sometimes does us more harm than good

It's a problem philosophers have grappled with for centuries. What makes life go better or worse is varied, personal, and indefinable

Big brain, big mistakes

As heterosexual couples gain access to Civil Partnerships, why not offer legal partnerships to platonic couples, too?

For every mystery they solve, these new books pose another—from how we cope to death to whether we can truly know the mind at all

The will of the people in its purest form leaves little room for the rule of law

As with all geniuses, it is taking the rest of us many years to catch him up

The school’s degeneracy into post-truth was never inevitable

There's nothing shameful about growing up. In fact, embracing the reality of getting older can make our lives richer