Well-researched stories from Wired, The Atlantic, and other publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

Let us pause now and give thanks.

Even well-intentioned books for children can romanticize (or demonize) Native Americans. But better materials exist.

Behind the Victorian movement to replace tippling alcohol with a very British ritual.

In this short story a graduate student makes a deal with the devil: Write my dissertation and my soul is yours.

What is the political, philosophic, and economic system known as socialism? Some starting points for further study.

Ernest Hemingway didn’t care for it.

Through crazes of pigeon-fancying, these birds have been reshaped into a dizzying variety of forms.

Researchers have a cheap, easy way for cleaning up oil spills: letting plants do the work. Why isn’t it used more often?

The paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope condemned women's suffrage and Black Americans through an evolutionary lens.