In the contemporary United States we tend to expect journalists to separate fact and opinion. It's actually a relatively new phenomenon.

Agritourism may sound like a hot new trend, but it's actually been helping farms stay in business for over a century.

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

The journalist's witty Paris Letters for the New Yorker helped establish Americans' feelings of superiority over Europe.

The real problem with useless vitamins and other supplements? A psychological side effect known as "illusory invulnerability."

Is it terrible to have to pay someone to care for your loved ones? Or could it actually be an effective way to establish a high standard of care?

Research shows that the advertising we see in childhood stays with us for a very, very long time.

In the late 1800s, a U.K. scheme lured lonely bachelors with newspaper advertisements supposedly placed by wealthy women.

Trained as a printmaker, this artist helped change American tattooing from a fringe behavior into an art form people use to express themselves.

Between 1950 and 1965, steamy novels about lesbian relationships, marketed to men, inadvertently offered closeted women much-needed representation.