This selection of stories focuses on prison and mass incarceration in the US, which has the highest rate of imprisonment in the world.

Dogs can use their superb sense of smell to identify disease in human patients. What’s keeping them from using this ability in the healthcare industry?

Thoreau's time at Walden Pond has provided substantial data for scientists monitoring the effects of a warming climate on the area's plant life.

Join us Wednesday, March 23, for a free online event. Editor Morgan Godvin in conversation with penal historian Ashley Rubin.

Well-researched stories from Pro Publica, Smithsonian, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

Everybody remembers that the Ides of March was the day Julius Caesar was assassinated. But what does it mean, and why that day?

The increased participation of women in labor helped create the Canadian feminist movement.

The Hindu festival of Holi celebrates love, colors, and the arrival of spring. How it's celebrated can vary significantly throughout India.

Returning large, wild herbivores to Europe could help maintain soil health and discourage invasive species, but these cows have some political baggage...

Terence McKenna was an evangelist for the use of psilocybin and other mind-altering drugs, as a way to transcend and escape “untrammeled rationalism.”