The Present

How did human homosexuality evolve?

The new version’s battery has a shorter range and a price $4,000 lower than the previous starting price.

It’s hard to imagine such a number. But these images will help you try.

“Expropriation without compensation” is meant to address the nation’s stark inequalities in wealth and land ownership.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has cancelled an upcoming trip to an economic conference in Saudi Arabia amid the controversy involving missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

A new report warns about the increasing likelihood of international conflicts over water.

Are we standing on the brink of Mutually Assured Destruction?

Ever wanted to describe precisely how crummy you feel after a bad haircut?

A senior official told a Turkish newspaper that audio recordings prove that missing Saudi journalist was murdered in the Saudi consulate.

Are we sure this isn’t alien technology?

The tax coffers for the entire country will be growing rapidly, and citizens of Canada will be able to access what they need.

Canadians who’ve been caught with 30 grams of marijuana or less will soon be able to request those charges to be expunged.

Inconceivable wealth. And a few lessons in how not to get rich, too.

This is about so much more than Donald Trump. Anand Giridharadas explains why America must reclaim its heritage of revolution before the next presidential election in 2020.

At what point does spending billions on rocket technology seem irresponsible to those suffering on Earth?

Saudade: the untranslatable Portuguese word that names the presence of absence and takes melancholy delight in what’s gone.

In the world of crypto, the more outlandish the idea, the more potentially disruptive.

James Patterson on teaching kids to read.

The Seattle tech magnate died from complications of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

Andy Thomas, a Missouri-based painter, painted an imaginary image of Trump and past Republican presidents that now hangs in the White House.

142 more stores to close, but that might be just the tip of the proverbial iceberg.

Postmodernists like to question the very foundations of our modern society. Does this make them anti-science?

The legendary DARPA tests technology that lets soldiers control drones with their minds.

The disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has caused international controversy.

Christine Lagorio-Chafkin spent six years writing the definitive history of Reddit.

Why do Americans have so much debt?

In business and in technology, just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

The lawsuit could someday reach the Supreme Court and change the way the nation’s universities approach college admissions practices.

A new study finds that simply growing up in a home with enough books increases adult literacy and math prowess.

Feminism simply means equal rights for men and women.