Spoiler alert: It doesn't work.

Abstaining from alcohol is a new trend with a long, long history.

Studies show that college-educated white Americans value having choice -- and yet having too much choice can paralyze and lead to dissatisfaction.

“With comedy, trouble is one of the greatest ingredients because there are so many variations to it,” the silent film actor told one scholar.

Some scholars and scientists are calling climate change the invisible player in Syria's ongoing civil war. But is that too simplistic an explanation?

How do scammers use language to trick their victims?

Will outside-the-womb gestation, increasingly viable for animal embryos, lead to a feminist utopia? Or to something like Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World?

Jane Fonda's workout videos cracked open the idea of who exercise was for, but only to an extent.

There is a new push for electric school buses, which would pollute less. But the electric-powered vehicle is actually a very old technology.

Well-researched stories from The New Republic, PBS, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.