The degrowth movement is building a vision of a society where economies would get smaller by design—and people would be better off for it.

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

Phylum away for safekeeping, and have fauna!

A pamphlet published in 1840 advocates a four-pronged approach to public healthcare that sounds remarkably like our own.

Listlessness, boredom, torpor, that "noonday demon" that tempts you away from spiritual connections—that's what was called acedia.

The American bison isn't extinct. But could it ever roam freely across North America, as it once did? Some scholars say it could happen.

When it comes to the U.S. tax system, benefits are often indirect, which makes them more politically palatable to many.

Flappers stole the headlines for their hemlines and wild ways. But were some of them stitching samplers in the meantime?

The 1936 movie Little Lord Fauntleroy broke box office records, only to be toned down and masculinized amid cultural fears of the “sissified” male.

Nothing appealed more perfectly to the Romantic sensibility than the mix of horror and awe evoked by a volcano erupting.